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Suspicious Friends: Halting Police Reliance on the Company We Keep - Northeastern Law Professor Aliza Hochman Bloom

🥁 Introducing Northeastern Law Magazine's new online exclusive In My Opinion series. Check out our debut piece, "Suspicious Friends: Halting Police Reliance on the Company We Keep," by Prof. Aliza Hochman Bloom @ahochmanbloom.bsky.social.
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Watch: On ABC News Live Prime, Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of @crrj.bsky.social, discusses a landmark moment in the pursuit of justice — the posthumous exoneration of Tommy Lee Walker, 70 years after his wrongful conviction. #NUSLPride abcnews.com/video/130509...

Supreme Court IEEPA Tariff Decision: Implications for Business Leaders - Center for Emerging Markets The Supreme Court's February 20th ruling that the President lacked authority under the IEEPA to impose tariffs marks a major shift in trade policy — with over $200 billion in collected duties now in q...

Professor Sonia E. Rolland outlines some of the implications of last week’s Supreme Court tariff decision. damore-mckim.northeastern.edu/cem/resource...

Influencer Law: Memes, Marketing and the Law - School of Law Join the Center for Law, Information and Creativity for a panel exploring how copyright, trademark, right of publicity and false advertising law apply to the world of influencers—real, fake and everyt...

Join @clicatnusl.bsky.social online or in person tomorrow (Feb. 26) at 4:30 PM for Influencer Law, a conversation examining how traditional areas of law apply to influencer culture and digital media. For details and registration, please visit:
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‘A vintage pep rally.’ Trump delivers longest State of the Union President Donald Trump staged a boisterous, campaign-style speech that experts said mirrored the nation’s political fault lines.

Professor Jeremy Paul comments for @nuglobalnews.bsky.social on President Trump’s first State of the Union address since taking office a second time.
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#MassProud: Kelly Cooke’s Journey from Andover to the Olympics Kelly Cooke Selected as an Official for the 2026 Olympics in Milan, Italy

Happening NOW — Kelly Cooke ’19 (#29) is officiating today‘s Gold Medal Game! USA 🇺🇸 vs. Canada 🇨🇦, 1:10 PM ET. Look out for her on the ice! 🏒 #NUSLPride @nuglobalnews.bsky.social

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Jesse Jackson recalled for empathy, listening and Northeastern visits Jesse Jackson will be remembered for empathy, friendship with Martin Luther King, Jr., and calling for social justice as a campus speaker.

Professor Margaret Burnham reflects on Jesse Jackson's legacy: "His enduring gift...was his ability to empathize with and thereby empower people from all corners of the world who aspired to equality and freedom.“ @nuglobalnews.bsky.social @crrj.bsky.social
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Catch up on the latest news, research and events from Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law in our spring 2026 newsletter! #NUSLPride
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As wars in Ukraine and Gaza drag on, counting the dead grows harder “In many ways, war statistics are a battleground themselves in the information space,” said John Wihbey, a journalism professor.

“If the goal is legal accountability, such as for future war crimes prosecutions, then casualty figures must be supported by evidence that can withstand judicial scrutiny,” Professor Alexandra Meise @ruleoflaw.bsky.social tells @nuglobalnews.bsky.social.
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Professor Margaret Hahn-DuPont, program director for Northeastern Law’s Legal Skills in Social Context program, speaking on “Gender and Status in the Legal Academy and Profession” earlier today at the Association of American Law Schools Women in Legal Education Conference. #NUSLPride

Professor Margaret Hahn DuPont joins the panel “Gender and Status in the Legal Academy and Profession” tomorrow at the Association of American Law Schools Section on Women in Legal Education Conference at Boston University School of Law. @bulaw.bsky.social #NUSLPride
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Had a great time presenting on Adamant Contemnors at @nusl.bsky.social -- great feedback and now I have even more literatures to review and incorporate into our paper! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/abstrac...

What is the problem with an Olympic figure skater’s ‘Minions’ routine? Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté’s fight to skate to a medley from the movies illustrates a larger issue with Olympics music licensing.

In an interview with @nuglobalnews.bsky.social, Professor Alexandra Roberts @lexlanham.bsky.social, faculty director of @clicatnusl.bsky.social, explains why Olympic figure skaters have been plagued with music copyright issues in recent years.
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How Attacks on Immigrant Teens Helped Build the Post-Roe Playbook In the second Trump administration, the post-Roe playbook targets teens and immigrants’ abortion and reproductive healthcare access first.

Q&A: Brigitte Amiri ’99, deputy director of @aclu.org’s Reproductive Freedom Project, traces how the first Trump administration’s efforts to block abortion access for unaccompanied immigrant minors foreshadowed the post-Dobbs playbook. @msmagazine.com
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Northeastern law collaboration rights a 70-year-old wrong The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project offers teaching, research and policy analysis on race, history, and criminal justice.

“At the end of the day, our criminal justice system must address its fatal errors, no matter how long ago they occurred,” Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of @crrj.bsky.social, tells @nuglobalnews.bsky.social.
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Professors Libby Adler and Elettra Bietti are in Richmond, Virginia, this weekend to present at the Association of Law and Political Economy's inaugural conference! #NUSLPride @clicatnusl.bsky.social @a-lpe.bsky.social
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Call for Mayors to adopt Human Rights-Based Budgeting United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif called on mayors to adopt a human rights-based budgeting approach.

Professor Martha Davis, faculty director of NUSL’s Center for Global Law and Justice, moderated a distinguished panel on human rights-based budgeting yesterday at UNESCO’s “Human Rights Go Local: What Works” conference. #NUSLPride
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Trump DOJ Reimagines Birthright Citizenship History for Justices The Trump administration is trying to convince the Supreme Court that a long-held consensus regarding near-universal birthright citizenship actually conflicts with the original understanding of the Co...

“Some parts of the president’s agenda dovetail with trends in Supreme Court jurisprudence that were already underway,” Prof. @rosenbloom.bsky.social tells @bloomberglaw.com. “But stripping Americans of birthright citizenship does not fall into that category.”
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Congratulations to Kristin Meader '27 on being selected as the National Consumer Law Center's 2026 Sandip J. Gupta Memorial Fellow! 🎉 #NUSLPride
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Kassandra Gove is new MMA president; Kiana Baskin is VP - Massachusetts Municipal Association (MMA) The two women leading the MMA’s Board of Directors this year say they’re prepared to help the state’s 351 cities and towns navigate a treacherous fiscal landscape and seek greater control over their f...

Congratulations to Kiana Baskin, associate dean for belonging at Northeastern Law, on being elected vice president of the Massachusetts Municipal Association! #NUSLPride
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CityLine: Immigration enforcement This week on CityLine, examining immigration enforcement operations in our communities.

Professor Deborah Ramirez joined @wcvb5.bsky.social’s CityLine to discuss law enforcement procedure, jurisdiction and how authorities should investigate the deaths of two US citizens killed in separate encounters with federal immigration agents in Minnesota last month.
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Trademark Law and Free Speech - School of Law Join CLIC to celebrate the release of Professor Lisa Ramsey’s much-anticipated new book on trademark law and the First Amendment.

Join @clicatnusl.bsky.social via Zoom this Tuesday at 12:30PM to celebrate the release of Professor Lisa Ramsey's much-anticipated new book, Trademark and Free Speech: Conflicts and Resolutions. @cambup-law.cambridge.org
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🎬 Free Screening next Thursday at the Modern Theatre: NUSL‘s Center for Global Law and Justice is proud to sponsor Suffolk University's Ford Hall Forum screening of the acclaimed documentary Harm in the Water. ci.ovationtix.com/34432/produc...

Professor Alexandra Roberts @lexlanham.bsky.social joins trademark experts at the @bostonbar.bsky.social’s IP Year in Review Conference on Feb. 5 to discuss ”AI, Dupe Culture, and Look-Alikes: Recent Developments in Trademark Law.“ @clicatnusl.bsky.social
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Professor Elettra Bietti heads to Silicon Flatirons‘ 2026 Flagship Conference this weekend at University of Colorado Law School. On Sunday morning, she'll join the panel “AI Market Forces – A New Gap in Tech Access?.” #NUSLPride @clicatnusl.bsky.social
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Professor Elettra Bietti joins a panel today at the American Bar Association's "Diverse Perspectives: Antitrust in a Changing World" conference in NYC. She'll discuss ex-ante regulation in a global ecosystem. #NUSLPride @clicatnusl.bsky.social @americanbar.org
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Can ICE agents search homes with only an administrative warrant? The killing of a Minnesota resident has generated much discussion over the use of force and the limits of federal law enforcement authority.

Professor Emerita Deborah Ramirez, a leading expert in criminal justice reform, provides critical analysis for Northeastern Global News on the complex legal questions surrounding the killing of Renee Good.
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Tommy Lee Walker Declared Innocent 70 Years After His Execution Dallas County Commissioners Court posthumously proclaimed Mr. Walker’s innocence in the 1954 racially-fueled capital murder case.

Following a joint reinvestigation by NUSL’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, @innocenceproject.bsky.social and Dallas DA, the Dallas County Commissioners Court has declared Tommy Lee Walker innocent—70 years after his wrongful execution at age 19.
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Join NUSL’s Center for Law Equity and Race TODAY at 11:45AM in 30 Dockser to explore legal strategies for ICE accountability—from state prosecution of federal officials to immunity issues and practical tools for addressing unlawful enforcement activities. law.northeastern.edu/event/clear-...