11.16-11.18.22 ›› Brigitte Amiri ’99, deputy director at the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project and one of the nation’s leading litigators for reproductive freedom, visited the law school for three days in November as the Judith Olans Brown Forum for Women in the Law Practitioner-in- Residence for 2022. While at Northeastern, Amiri shared comments and insights about her high-profile cases, including successfully advocating for a pregnant teenage immigrant who was barred from accessing abortion services during the Trump administration and her efforts in the wake of the Dobbs decision, including a lawsuit in Kentucky seeking to block two abortion bans by asserting the Kentucky Constitution protects the right to privacy and bodily autonomy.

10.6-10.7.22 ›› This celebration and conference launched the unprecedented Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive, a collection of almost 1,000 cases of anti-Black racial killings from 1930 to 1954 in the Jim Crow South.

11.17.22 ›› Professor Jorje Contreras, director of the Program on Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, spoke about his new book, The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA (Hachette/Algonquin, 2021).

10.31.22 ›› Professor Amaya Alvez Marin of the University of Concepción in Chile spoke about the Chilean constit- uent process and her work to replace Chile’s Pinochet-era constitution with one incorporating robust human rights and ecological protections. Jackie Dugard, senior lecturer at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, led a conversation after the lecture. The event was co-sponsored by the International Law Society, Latin American Law Students Association and the law school’s chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.

11.30.22 ›› This first panel in a series of three focused on the legal frameworks surrounding reparations policies, including the constitutionality of various reparations proposals and how policymakers might anticipate and structure reparations initiatives with Equal Protection challenges in mind. CRRJ is co-hosting this series with the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy and the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University.

10.28.22 ›› The Center for Health Policy and Law’s annual lecture featured Professor Sarah Richardson of Harvard University. Author of several books, including Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome, Richardson spoke about how experts interpret the often-contested state of knowledge on the biology of sex and the responsibilities of scientists conducting related research.

12.1.22 ›› This annual program for those in the labor law field included provocative discussions about the current state of protected concerted activity, an inside look at NLRB decisions and the opportunities and challenges of a hybrid workforce. Special thanks to Fisher Phillips and Morgan, Brown & Joy for sponsoring this event.

9.19-9.21.22›› Anjali Waikar ’05,who oversees legal operations for the Natural Resources Defense Council, visited the law school for three days as a Daynard Distinguished Public Interest Visiting Fellow. In addition to her community lecture, “On the Public Interest Path: Changing Lanes Along the Way,” she participated in a roundtable, “Environmental Justice: Case Studies on Policy, Advocacy and Litigation Trends,” which included Deborah Jackson, managing director of the law school’s Center for Law, Equity and Race; Sofia Owen ’14, director of environmental justice legal services and staff attorney for Alternatives for Community and Environment; and Staci Rubin ’10, vice president for environmental justice with the Conservation Law Foundation. Professor Emerita Lee Breckenridge moderated the conversation. The Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration co-sponsored these events.

11.14.22›› In 2022, William Allen was granted clemency by then-Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker after 28 years of incarceration for felony murder for his participation in a robbery. Allen and his attorney, Patty DeJuneas, fought for years to convince Baker and the Governor’s Council to commute his sentence, which is a constitutionally provided procedure for individuals serving life without the possibility of parole. At this event, Allen and DeJuneas talked about the clemency process, Allen’s many successes while incarcerated, the unavailability of programming for lifers and barriers to reentry.

11.14.22 ›› This spirited conversation with Jerry Mitchell, an investigative journalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, MacArthur Fellow and founder of the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, was co-hosted by the School of Journalism at Northeastern’s College of Arts, Media and Design and FRONTLINE, which produced “Un(re)solved,” an investigative series featuring CRRJ’s work.