Going Places
Beyond Borders
In Mexico City, Professor Sonia E. Rolland presented her proposal for a Sustainable Development Impact Assessment at Trade and the Social Dimension of Sustainability, a workshop hosted by the Remaking the Global Trading System for a Sustainable Future Project in collaboration with Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.
Don’t Cry for Her Argentina
At the 2023 IPSA World Congress of Political Science held in Buenos Aires, Professor Claudia Haupt delivered a paper, “Rethinking Militant Democracy in the Social Media Platform Age.”
Not in Kansas Anymore
In September, Professor Lua Yuille delivered a talk, “Shelley Can’t Save Us … Because It Wasn’t Meant To,” at a University of Kansas School of Law symposium, Home Is Where the Law Says: 75 Years of Shelley v. Kraemer, hosted by the school’s law review.
Particularly Placid
Professor Alexandra Roberts, a senior fellow with George Mason University Center for Intellectual Property Law x Innovation Policy (C-IP2), participated in a C-IP2 roundtable discussion, “IP in the Metaverse,” held in Lake Placid, New York, in July.
Philadelphia Freedom
At the American Society of Legal History conference in Philadelphia in October, Professor Kara Swanson was a featured commentator on the panel “Women’s Rights Beyond the Nineteenth Amendment: An Analysis of Federal and State Legal Reforms for Bodily and Political Autonomy.”
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During the 2025–2026 academic year, the School of Law’s Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration (CPIAC) and the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs created the Northeastern University Law and Policy Fellows Program.
In 2022, after a 30-year career in business immigration law, Ditrani founded Pathway for Immigrant Workers, a nonprofit built on a simple premise: do the work for nothing.
In April, Professor Margaret Burnham’s colleagues, students and fellow travelers came together for a symposium to honor that work, celebrate Burnham’s retirement and recommit to carrying the torch forward.
