Going Places
California Dreamin’
In September, Professor Martha Davis presented her paper “What If Local Human Rights Commissions Embraced International Human Rights Norms?” at the UC Irvine School of Law symposium, Can International Law Thrive in America? Davis’ paper will appear in the UC Irvine Journal of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law.
Golden State Rule
At the Berkeley Technology Law Journal symposium titled Race, Rights and Innovation: Cultivating Equity in the Digital World, held in September, Professor Kara Swanson presented on “History, Social Justice and the Stakes of Diversity in Technological Development.”
Italian Job
At the Global Legal Skills Conference, held in Bari, Italy, Professor Quisquella Addison presented on “Training Law Students to Leverage Data for Social Change: Key Takeaways from Two Access-to-Justice Projects with First- Year Law Students.”
Houston We Have Lift Off
At the University of Houston Law Center’s Intellectual Property and Information Law National Conference last summer, Professor Alexandra Roberts presented her paper “Of Marks and Minors,” which was subsequently published in the Houston Law Review.
Safety First
During December’s online Criminal Law and Procedure Works in Progress Roundtables, co-sponsored by the ABA and AALS, Professor Aliza Hochman Bloom presented on “Superpredators Revisited: Police Enforcement of the Modern Juvenile Curfew.”
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Professors Andrew Haile, Melanie Roberts and Daniel Medwed are the 2025 recipients of the law school’s Teacher of the Year award.
To ensure public health is not undermined in the courts, Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law (CHPL), as part of the Act for Public Health partnership, recently released a report, A Plan for Action: Protecting Public Health in the Courts, that calls for several critical action steps, including research, education and coordination with allies in organizing and drafting amicus briefs in cases with significant public health ramifications.
Professor Richard Daynard, president of the law school’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, was recently featured in several lengthy articles about his pioneering work fighting Big Tobacco and his new focus on sports gambling as a threat to public health.
