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Selected Fall 2024 Lectures, Conferences and More
Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR)
Race, Human Bodies and the Law: A Conversation
Linda Greenhouse (left) and Professor Patricia Williams touched on Williams’ new book as well as other topics, including Williams’ article “Expanding the Vocabulary” in The New York Review, about how Kamala Harris navigated a “minefield of Trumpian insults.”
Photograph by Michael Manning
10.23.24 ›› In partnership with Northeastern University’s Africana Studies Program, CLEAR hosted this engaging conversation between Professor Patricia Williams, author of The Miracle of the Black Leg: Notes on Race, Human Bodies, and the Spirit of the Law, and Linda Greenhouse, an award-winning journalist and former staff member of The New York Times.
Genealogy Workshop Series with Nicka Smith
10.22–11.12.24 ›› In cooperation with Mills College and Northeastern University’s Black Reparations Project, CLEAR co-hosted workshops that explored key aspects of African American genealogy, including family history research, the lives of the formerly enslaved and ancestral land connections.
Centers of Excellence
Where Do We Go from Here: Advocacy and Resistance After the 2024 Election
11.25.24 ›› This panel discussion featured Anne Georges ’16, an attorney with Greater Boston Legal Services and interim co-director of Northeastern Law’s Immigrant Justice Clinic; Rahsaan Hall ’98, president and CEO of the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts; and Professor Katherine Kraschel. Dr. Deborah Jackson, managing director of the Center for Law, Equity and Race, moderated.
Center for Health Policy and Law (CHPL)
Salus Populi Judicial Education Program
9.27.24 ›› This full-day, interactive, seminar-style program provided judges with an introduction to the social determinants of health and their relationship to judicial decision-making as well as the tools they need to apply this knowledge to their work on the bench.
Roundtables
11.8–19.24 ›› The Center for Health Policy and Law’s fall roundtables included “A New Framework for Drug Pricing Law and Policy” and “The Fallout of Loper Bright for Health Policy.”
Annual Health Law Lecture
Wiley (far left) and Mohapatra (second from left) were joined in a dynamic conversation by chapter authors Professor Danielle Pelfrey Duryea of Boston University School of Law (third from left) and Professor Wendy E. Parmet (far right), faculty director of the Center for Health Policy and Law.
Photographs by Michael Manning
11.4.24 ›› This year’s health law lecture showcased professors Seema Mohapatra of SMU Dedman School of Law and Lindsay Wiley of UCLA Law, co-editors of Feminist Judgments: Health Law Rewritten (Cambridge University Press, 2022), which reimagines pivotal health law cases by rewriting key judicial opinions from a feminist perspective.
Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC)
Feminist Cyberlaw
11.21.24 ›› This event featured editors and authors of Feminist Cyberlaw, a groundbreaking book that reimagines the field of cyberlaw through a feminist lens, exploring how gender, race, sexuality, disability, class and their intersections shape cyberspace and the laws that govern it. Speakers included chapter authors Kendra Albert, a partner with Albert Sellars; Kate Darling, a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab; Professor Amanda Levendowski of Georgetown Law; Victoria Sánchez, program manager at Riot Games; and Professor Alexandra Roberts of Northeastern University School of Law, who serves as faculty director of CLIC.
They’re Playing Our Song (Without Our Permission): Music Law on the Campaign Trail
Professor Kevin Casini (above, left and at right) represents clients including Grammy winners, Emmy winners and Billboard Music Award–winning artists. His discussion with Professor Alexandra Roberts (above, right) was followed by conversations with students.
Photographs by Michael Manning
10.1.24 ›› Professor Kevin Casini of Quinnipiac University School of Law joined Professor Alexandra Roberts, faculty director of CLIC, for a lively conversation about musicians’ objections to politicians using their songs without authorization.
Brown Forum for Women in the Law
Practitioner-in-Residence
Carrie Goldberg (center) at a reception in her honor with Director of Alumni/ae Engagement and Initiatives Mielle Marquis (left) and Amy Carlin ’00, co-chair of the Women in the Law Conference.
Photographs by David Leifer
11.13–15.24 ›› Carrie Goldberg, founder of leading victims’ rights law firm C.A. Goldberg, came to Northeastern Law in November for three days as the Judith Olans Brown Forum for Women in the Law Practitioner- in-Residence for 2024–2025. While in residence, Goldberg shared her experiences fighting for survivors of sexual violence and representing victims of catastrophic injuries caused by tech giants. Her visit included class lectures, a breakfast with students that featured Goldberg in discussion with Professor Alexandra Roberts, and office hours to build personal connections. Goldberg is the author of Nobody’s Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls, a 2019 New York Times Editor’s Choice.
The Impact of Women’s Entrepreneurship on Communities of Color
The conversation included (above, from left) Professor Christine Chung, executive director of the Mills Institute at Northeastern University, who moderated; Professor Darcelle Lahr, Mills MA ’17, EdD ’18; Dimple Abichandani ’02, a fellow of the National Center for Family Philanthropy; and Taja Lester, Mills MBA ’11, founder of Health Equity Capital. Prior to the lively conversation, graduates enjoyed a reception (right).
Photographs by Ruby Wallau for Northeastern University
9.26.24 ›› To kick off Mills College’s reunion weekend, the Brown Forum for Women in the Law collaborated with Northeastern’s Oakland campus to present this vibrant conversation about how women entrepreneurs have demonstrated their ability to generate record amounts of money and employ record numbers of people, including people of color, and are positioned to Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC) facilitate economic mobility for their communities and beyond.
Office of New Markets
Treasures Unlocked … Privacy, AI Governance and the IAPP
11.13.24 ›› The Office of New Markets and the Privacy and Technology Law Society welcomed Rita Heimes, general counsel and data privacy officer at the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), a nonprofit professional membership association, for a discussion about IAPP certifications in privacy and AI governance and related career path insights.
Center for Global Law and Justice
Fall Speaker Series
Professor James Cavallaro of Wesleyan University, who co-founded and heads the University Network for Human Rights, spoke in November about “Legal Education, International Law and Respect for International Human Rights in the Americas.”
Photograph by Michael Manning
9.26–12.5.24 ›› The new Center for Global Law and Justice’s speaker series focused on Issues in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Topics included siege starvation, an abolitionist critique of human rights, gender as a tool and weapon, international human rights in the Americas and transnational borders.
LLM Program
International Education Week LLM Panel
Student speakers included (from left) Quentin Delaud LLM ’25 from France, Clea Strydom LLM ’25 from South Africa, Lukman Afuwape LLM ’25 from Ghana and Dahlia Cornwall LLM ’25 from Jamaica.
Photograph by David Leifer
11.20.24›> This dynamic panel featured four current LLM students, who each led a case discussion. Co-sponsors of this event included Northeastern Law’s Centers of Excellence and clinical program as well as Northeastern University’s Office of Global Services and the Global Immersion Honors Living Learning Community.
Office of Development and Alumni/ae Relations
SCOTUS Focus over Coffee
9.18.24 ›› Longtime friends Professor Wendy E. Parmet and Professor Emerita Judith Olans Brown discussed recent Supreme Court rulings and the future of the Court over coffee (virtually) in this vibrant conversation. Brown and Parmet, while formidable in class, met here in a more casual format: two old friends musing — and lamenting — about what they described as the harmful role that the Court has come to play in society; the disingenuousness of the Court’s so-called methodologies, such as the manipulation of history, originalism and textualism; and court reform (why it is needed, why it won’t happen).
Labor and Employment Program
Bryan Decker ’92 (above, far left) of Decker & Rubin moderated the panel, which included Jocelyn Jones ’98 of Segal Roitman and Michael Bertoncini ’96 of Jackson Lewis. The Honorable Gwynne Wilcox (above, far right), a member of the NLRB, participated virtually.
Photographs by David Leifer
12.4.24 ›› Northeastern Law’s annual Labor and Employment Program tackled the thorny issues blurring the lines between workplace and off-duty speech and conduct. Expert panelists unpacked employee activism in today’s workplaces and its impact on the law.
A panel discussion, “It’s Not Your Father’s/Mother’s Union Anymore,” focused on how actions by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), unions and workers are breathing new life into the National Labor Relations Act and its protections.
Panelists included (above, from left) Scott Roberts ’87 of Hirsch Roberts Weinstein; James Weliky ’95 of Messing Rudavsky & Weliky; and Laurie Alexander-Krom ’97 of CVS Health. Northeastern Professor Seth Harris (above, right) of the Burnes Center for Social Innovation, who served as deputy assistant to the president for labor and the economy and as deputy director of the National Economic Council during the Biden administration, participated virtually as moderator.
Photographs by David Leifer
Daynard Public Interest Visiting Fellow
Movement Lawyering: A Praxis for Supporting Transformative Social Change in These Times
Left to right: Christian Snow ’18, executive director of Law for Black Lives (L4BL), was joined in a roundtable, “Movement Lawyering: Lessons in Navigating and Building Power,” by Professor Julian Hill of Georgia State University College of Law; Professor Renee Hatcher of University of Illinois Chicago School of Law; and Professor Melvin Kelley of Northeastern Law, who moderated.
Photographs by David Leifer
10.7–9.24 ›› Christian Snow ’18, executive director of Law for Black Lives (L4BL), came to Northeastern for three days in October as a Daynard Public Interest Law Fellow. Snow spoke about her Black femme–led organization, which is dedicated to transforming the legal field by cultivating a national community of radical law students, lawyers and legal workers dedicated to movement lawyering; building the power of local organizing to defend, protect and advance Black liberation; and transforming the law to change the conditions of the struggle and defend Black lives.
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