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Bridget Arimond, clinical professor of law and director of the LLM Program in International Human Rights, has received a new grant from the East West Management Institute to continue Northwestern ...

Robin Walker Sterling, Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Clinical Education, and director of the Bluhm Legal Clinic, has been elected as a new member of the ...

In December, the Presidential Commission of the Supreme Court of the United States—established by President Joe Biden—voted unanimously to submit its report on the role and operation of the ...

Professor Paul Gowder says when the government operates via power, rather than the law, people of color pay the price. He’s been thinking and writing about “the rule of law” and to what extent ...

Alyson Carrel, Harry B. Reese Teaching Clinical Professor of Law and co-director of the Center on Negotiation and Mediation, was awarded the 2022 Technology, Law and Legal Education Section Award ...

In her new book, Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers, Professor Deborah Tuerkheimer looks at the spotlight created by #MeToo and considers the next steps: Why do we believe who we ...

On September 21, the sixth annual Abraham Lincoln Lecture on Constitutional Law was held at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, featuring Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History ...

Ajay K. Mehrotra, professor of law, has been elected as a new member of the American Law Institute (ALI), the leading independent U.S. organization producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize ...

Joyce A. Hughes, professor of law, has been selected by the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession as one of the 2021 Margaret Brent Award recipients.