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Faculty Colloquia 2020 - 2021

Northeastern University School of Law presents the 2020-2021 Faculty Colloquia Series, convening leading scholars from the university and other institutions. These workshops aim to broaden the horizons of legal scholarship, facilitate the sharing of ideas and challenge how we think about the law and legal practice. 

Schedule*

* All faculty colloquia to be held virtually from 12:00 - 1:30 PM unless otherwise indicated. 

September 30, 2020
 Health Law Roundtable: Dr. Michael Sinha, Visiting Scholar, Northeastern University School of Law; Regulatory Science Fellow, Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science, Harvard Program in Therapeutic Science (HiTS), Harvard Medical School
Contact lawhealth@northeastern.edu to request Zoom login credentials. 

October 7, 2020 | 12:10 - 1:40 PM
The Role of Lawyers in Addressing Structural Injustice in the Criminal Punishment System 
 What role do lawyers play in perpetuating structural racism and injustice within America’s system of mass incarceration? What role can lawyers play in transforming the criminal punishment system? Alec Karakatsanis, founder and executive director of Civil Rights Corps, will speak about his book, Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System, with commentary by Professor Michael Meltsner.    

October 14, 2020
Blaine Saito, Assistant Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law

October 26, 2020
 Mary Anne Case, Arnold I. Shure Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Who Conquers With This Sign? The Significance of the Secularization of the Bladensburg Cross

October 28, 2020
 Health Law Roundtable: Kimani Paul-Emile, Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law; Associate Director and Head of Domestic Programs and Initiatives, Center on Race, Law & Justice; Faculty Co-Director, Stein Center for Law & Ethics
 Contact lawhealth@northeastern.edu to request Zoom login credentials. 

November 18, 2020
Health Law Roundtable: Dr. Mason Marks, Assistant Professor of Law, Gonzaga University School of Law; Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School; Fellow-in-Residence, Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School
Contact lawhealth@northeastern.edu to request Zoom login credentials. 

November 30, 2020
Andrew Koppelman
John Paul Stevens Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University

December 10, 2020
Jennifer Taub
Professor of Law, Western New England University School of Law

December 18, 2020
 Steven L. Winter
Walter S. Gibbs Distinguished  Professor of Constitutional Law, Wayne State University Law School

March 10, 2021
Allison Tait
Professor of Law, Allison Tait, University of Richmond School of Law

March 31, 2021
Claudia Haupt
Associate Professor of Law and Political Science, Northeastern University School of Law