CRRJ Director, Professor Margaret Burnham, was a keynote speaker at the Bringing Human Rights Home Lawyers’ Network annual symposium, held on June 20, 2024, at the Fordham University School of Law. The event — co-hosted by the Program…
Professor Margaret Burnham, CRRJ director and faculty co-director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) was the featured speaker at an event hosted in Martha’s Vineyard on July 30 to…
As the summer draws to a close, six student interns, who have spent nine weeks investigating close to 100 cases of racially motivated homicides, presented their findings and proposed avenues for further research…
Please join us in welcoming Alex Stein (NUSL‘19) to the Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) — our new Staff Attorney and Program Director for the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ). An…
The decade-long partnership between Northeastern University School of Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) and the Southern University Law Center’s Louis A. Berry institute for Civil Rights & Justice (SULC) was celebrated at the school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Edward Bracey, a farmer, was killed in 1935 by a mob in Hope Hull, Montgomery County, Alabama. During a cotton pickers’ strike, a gang of landlords and vigilantes opened fire on Bracey’s house.
Within The Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive, there are several cases that will forever be linked, sharing a common perpetrator or group of perpetrators.
A complete history of anti-Black violence in the U.S. requires we make known those who believed they could act with impunity.
This summer, Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Clinic (CRRJ) the Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) and the Criminal Justice Task Force (CJTF) will welcome 19 intern students from across…
Following the success of last year’s pilot program, the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Clinic at the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law (CRRJ-KY) will be offered again this fall…
The only photograph Michael Sylve remembers seeing of his grandfather, Pierre Euchere Sylve, was on his aunt’s dresser in her home in New Orleans, Louisiana. “He had a dress shirt on,” said Michael.…
This summer, CRRJ Director Margaret Burnham is co-directing a project that seeks to evaluate the ethical concerns raised by the widespread U.S. practice of disposing of executed and deceased prisoners’ remains by donating…
Criminal justice reform, community advocacy, reparations legislation: Malcolm Clarke’s vision for his legal career has expanded in unexpected directions following his tenure as an Elizabeth Zitrin Justice Fellow at Northeastern Law’s Civil Rights…
A new exhibition centering Black female leaders at Roxbury’s Northeastern Crossing, features a portrait of CRRJ Director, Margaret Burnham, one of 12 women whose likenesses are currently on display. The exhibition, part of…
This Memorial Day weekend, we remember Caleb Hill Jr. who was lynched on Memorial Day, May 30, 1949, in Georgia. Read more about his case, with details from the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive.
If Rashida Richardson ’11 has a motto it might be “you just have to figure it out.” She figured out her place in history, growing up in 1990s New York and Connecticut with…
At the end of April, four students from CRRJ’s 2024 Spring Clinic traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana, a trip that signified the culmination of their clinical investigations. Isabella Ulm (NUSL ‘24), Morgan Heithcock…
We wish to extend a warm and well-deserved congratulations to all of the graduating students who participated in CRRJ’s Spring Clinic 2023-2024. Their work has been central to CRRJ’s accomplishments over the last…
The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) at Northeastern University School of Law, held their annual Spring Clinic Grand Rounds on April 23, 24 and 25, 2024. These afternoon sessions, held in Dockser Hall…