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Amanda Schwartz, MS ’11

Partnerships Manager, Partners in Health • Amanda was recently promoted to Partnerships Manager, working with partner organizations who can help Partners in Health to further their mission to break the cycle of poverty and disease. Partners In Health is a Boston-based non-profit organization dedicated to providing high-quality medical care and social justice to the destitute...

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Dawna Thomas

Dawna Thomas, PhD ’01

Associate Professor of Africana and Women’s and Gender Studies, Simmons College | Professor Thomas teaches classes on research methods, health and disability, and violence in the family. Her research work has focused on disability policy, economic disparities for individuals with disabilities from culturally diverse communities, community-based participatory research, race and gender disparities in health care,...

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Mary Ellen Mastrorilli

Mary Ellen Mastrorilli, PhD ’08

Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Boston University Metropolitan College | Professor Mastrorilli’s research interests focus on female offenders, community corrections, and law and society. She holds over twenty-four years of experience in positions ranging from correction officer to prison administrator....

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JD/MS Law and Public Policy

JD/MS Law and Public Policy

This interdisciplinary graduate program is designed for students who want a solid background in public policy as well as law. After completing the Juris Doctor (JD), students then take one year of courses in Law and Public Policy, ending with a capstone course. The program covers a full range of strategies for creating policy change, including legislation,...

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PhD Law and Public Policy

PhD Law & Public Policy

An interdisciplinary public policy program that provides a comprehensive view of the policy making process and its outcomes. Our interdisciplinary focus means that students come from a variety of backgrounds. And our students typically have several years of work experience. Students quickly find that engaging in a classroom with other students who hold degrees such...

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Michelle Meiser

Michelle Meiser, MS ’06

Director of Homeownership & Asset Manager • Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation • In her capacity at ABCD, Michelle is responsible for management of 10 affordable rental developments (509 units). Through their Homeownership Program Michelle and her staff assists low- and moderate-income home buyers in overcoming obstacles to homeownership by providing home buyer education, individual...

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Steve L. Antonakes, PhD ’98

Head of Bank Supervision, U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau • Antonakes was appointed by President Obama to the post in November 2010. Antonakes will be responsible for monitoring how the nation’s largest banks market and sell consumer products such as credit cards, checking accounts, and home loans to ensure they do not mislead or exploit...

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MS Law and Public Policy

The master of science degree provides professional graduate training in public policy with a grounding in law and legal reasoning. Most other public policy primarily emphasize economic analysis and assume that policy is created exclusively through legislation. The M.S. in Law and Public Policy takes a more interdisciplinary approach that recognizes the different dynamics that...

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Roderick Ireland, PhD ’98

Chief Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court | “Northeastern has a proud track-record of educating future leaders in public service,” said President Joseph E. Aoun. “Justice Ireland’s career exemplifies an unwavering commitment to serving others. As a member of our faculty, he strengthens our commitment to experiential learning by bringing the judicial system to life for...

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News

LPP Ph.D. candidate Daryl Justin Finizio soundly defeated City Councilor Michael Buscetto III in Tuesday’s primary for the Democratic primary to be the party’s candidate for New London mayor by an unofficial tally of 1,108 votes to 744 votes.

Dr. Jennifer Balboni, (Ph.D.) Law and Public Policy, 2006., has authored her first academic book, Clergy Sexual Abuse Litigation: Survivors Seeking Justice, now published by FirstForumPress. Dr. Balboni is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Simmons College.
Jennifer Balboni explores the experiences of clergy sex abuse survivors who sought justice through the court system, highlighting the promise and shortfalls of civil litigation in providing justice. Balboni draws on cases across the country such as the landmark 2002 lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Church to show how legal procedures that focused on financial settlements overlooked the survivors’ overarching desire to see the Church publicly acknowledge its wrongdoing. Her analysis underscores the gap between public and legal perceptions of justice and gives fresh insight into the complex ways that civil litigation can transform the lives of crime victims.

Terrorism and the Ethics of WarLPP Professor Steve Nathanson’s book,  Terrorism and the Ethics of War (Cambridge Univ. Press) received the Best Book in Social Philosophy Award for 2010 from the North American Society for Social Philosophy. There will be a special session devoted to the book at the NASSP Conference in July.

Professor Nathanson argues that we cannot have morally credible views about terrorism if we focus on terrorism alone and neglect broader issues about the ethics of war. His book challenges influential views on the ethics of war, including the realist view that morality does not apply to war.

National Science Foundation
Ph.D. Candidate Liana Pennington was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant for her doctoral research. Liana is researching whether parents in juvenile delinquency court experience the legal process as fair and effective and how views of legitimacy and justice are developed within families.

Professor Joan Fitzgerald received a travel grant from the German Marshall Fund of the United States to conduct research on climate change strategies in European cities. She will be at the University of Amsterdam for the month of May as part of a Fulbright Senior Scholar award.

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