winter 2018 NortheasternNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW MAGAZINE | northeastern.edu/law Law One in a Hundred The odds aren’t in her favor, but it’s still worth betting on Senator Maggie Hassan ’85. Winter 2018 Donald Cabell ’91 is a munificent mentor in the law school’s co-op program. 16 Photograph by Kathleen Dooher An EPIC co-op for Siri Nelson ’19 FEATURES 12 One in a Hundred The odds aren’t in her favor, but it’s still worth betting on Senator Maggie Hassan ’85. By Jeri Zeder 16 Mentors Raise the Bar Co-op supervisors play a critical role in transforming Northeastern law students into lawyers. By Andrew Faught 10 10 DENNIS DRENNER 20 Security Sold Separately Who should bear the burden to protect your personal information from today’s omnipotent 2 Dean’s Message hackers? By Elaine McArdle The Measure of Success 3 News Briefs Justice Nan Duffly, Rosenbloom and Albright, 30 Bar Exam Success ... Fall 2017 lectures and conferences 8 10 Co-op Matters Washington, DC — Siri Nelson ’19 San Diego — Andrew Hart ’18 Washington, DC — Anna Maria Annino ’19 25 Faculty News Sessa and Social Justice, Celebrating Meltsner, Fulbrights for Davis and Woo Talking the Talk 29 30 On the House The Accidental Advocate MONTSERRAT P E 32 Class Actions P Profile: Saraa Basaria ’12 Paving the Way 32 Class Notes 33 In Memoriam 34 29 Profile: Vivienne Simon ’77 Sweet Disobedience 35 MICHAEL MANNING Alumni/ae Weekend 38 Alissa Brill ’15 wasn’t looking to become a 40 Adjourn public interest lawyer. Now she can’t imagine being anything else. Let’s Get Fewer People to Die By Elisabeth Ryan Cover photograph by Chris Hartlove Dean’s Message northeastern.edu/law/magazine Northeastern Law Winter 2018 | Vol. 17 • No. 1 Editor Deborah Feldman The Measure of Success Associate Editor Maura King Scully Contributing Writers y almost every measure our law Our always stellar faculty is contributing Elaine McArdle school’s ascent is not merely significantly to sound approaches to fighting Jeri Zeder continuing, it’s accelerating. Our bar opioid overdose; providing health care and other Class Notes Editor pass rate in Massachusetts for first- services to immigrants; battling obesity; and Siobhan Fanning time takers on the July test exceeded securing reproductive freedom. In April, the B90 percent, placing us second in Massachusetts. Center for Health Policy and Law will host a Art Director Applications for our JD program are up nearly national conference on Diseases of Despair, Mark Gabrenya 15 percent, and we are doing even better with featuring Rep. Patrick Kennedy; Dr. Michael Please send editorial students with strong academic credentials. The Fraser, executive director of the Association of correspondence to: class of 2017 is thriving in the job market, and we State and Territorial Health Officials; and Michael Deborah Feldman have almost doubled last year’s number of Botticelli, executive director of the Grayken Center Director of Communications summer positions secured in our on-campus for Addiction Medicine. Our Center for Law, Northeastern University School of Law interview program. We continue to earn top 416 Huntington Ave. national rankings for practical training and public Boston, MA 02115 interest law from The National Jurist as well as for “ ... true victories come lawcommunications@ our health law program. Our new Immigrant from using the law to northeastern.edu Justice Clinic is up and running, kicked-off by an improve the lives of our Postmaster and readers: event headlined by Marielena Hincapié ’96, Send address changes to executive director of the National Law Center. We neighbors and the health Office of Development and Alumni/ae Relations have dedicated and talented new leaders running of our communities.” Northeastern University our admissions, co-op and development efforts. School of Law Above all, we just hired two truly outstanding 416 Huntington Ave. teachers and scholars to join the faculty in July. Innovation and Creativity (CLIC) is powerfully Boston, MA 02115 [email protected] Yet while we rejoice in the many ways the law explaining why traditional notions of privacy are school is winning better numbers, everyone at not up to the task of protecting personal data. And © 2018 Northeastern University School of Law. Printed Northeastern understands that true victories our Center for Public Interest Advocacy and in USA. Northeastern Law th come from using the law to improve the lives of Collaboration is planning the law school’s 50 magazine is published our neighbors and the health of our communities. anniversary celebration, focused on defining semiannually by Northeastern This spring the law school will lead an Open public interest legal careers for the 21st century. University School of Law. All publication rights reserved. Classroom for the Boston community aimed at All of this fabulous work takes extraordinary explaining the rule of law to many staggered by commitment from our faculty and staff, and it is Opinions expressed are those of the authors or the pace of change. This fall, Associate Dean an honor to lead such a rare and accomplished their subjects and do not Martha Davis helped her seminar students submit group. Of course, our successes also depend on necessarily reflect the comments on core human rights issues to the support, financial and otherwise, from graduates views of Northeastern UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and and friends. To seize the opportunities ahead, we University School of Law human rights. Our NuLawLab won a $200,000 have never needed you more. Thanks for all you or Northeastern University. Northeastern Law magazine grant from The Kresge Foundation to partner with do and best wishes for the coming year. welcomes comments. Boston’s Office of Housing Stability to study and help remedy problems facing those evicted from their homes. Our Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project continues to build a world-class archive documenting the trauma of murder that plagued the African-American community in the Jeremy Paul American South between 1930 and 1970. Dean and Professor of Law → Letters Comments? Kudos? A point you want to make (or three)? Send letters to Northeastern Law magazine, 416 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115, or email to [email protected]. 2 NORTHEASTERN LAW Winter 2018 BROOKS CANADAY News Briefs When I agreed to the appointment, I hoped it would suit “ me and I would suit it, and both are true as it turns out. I love the teaching. I even love the meetings. — Justice Fernande” (Nan) Duffly A Good Judge of Character Justice Fernande (Nan) Duffly, who retired from the Massachusetts Supreme Court (SJC) in 2016, is bringing her 25 years of bench experience, personal story as a Chinese-Dutch refugee from Indonesia, and historic appointment as the first Asian-American member of the SJC, to Northeastern this year as a visiting professor of law. Duffly was drawn to the law school’s public interest mission. “You worry about equipping new lawyers in this complicated, complex society,” says Duffly, who is teaching civil procedure and family law courses. “This is an opportunity to help future lawyers understand that they can make a difference in advancing and promoting the public interest.” Photograph by Kathleen Dooher News Briefs Rosenbloom, Albright Discuss Refugee Crisis at Clinton Global Initiative More than a thousand students, thought leaders and dignitaries from around the world convened at Northeastern University in October for the 10th annual Clinton Global Initiative University. Students from 90 countries and 250 universities participated in the three-day program, which included a discussion of the sity VER global refugee crisis moderated by Professor NI U Rachel Rosenbloom and featuring former N ER T Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; David AS HE Miliband, founder and CEO of the International T Rescue Committee and a former Secretary of HER, NOR State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in AP OGR the UK; and Sarahi Espinoza Salamanca, T founder and CEO of Dreamers Roadmap and an PHO AFF T immigrant herself. S O, N In her remarks, Rosenbloom explained that OO D more than 250 million people live outside of their countries of birth. While the majority of HEW MO att that population moved by choice, a significant M number are fleeing war, persecution and the Professor Rachel Rosenbloom (left) in conversation with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright often-devastating effect of climate change on (second from left), David Miliband and Sarahi Espinoza Salamanca. their homes. she was a refugee who ultimately served as the to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges. The scholars encouraged students to focus nation’s secretary of state. “That’s what this Participants heard from former President Bill on the people behind these waves of migration country is all about.” Clinton, Clinton Foundation Vice Chair as a means of affecting positive change. The program was packed full of seminars, Chelsea Clinton, US Rep. Joseph Kennedy III, “We have to recognize people behind the workshops and panel discussions intended to Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun immigration crisis,” said Albright, noting that serve as a catalyst for innovative social action and others. Northeastern Aces State Bar Exam New Health Center Blog Northeastern law graduates taking the Tracks Policy Developments Massachusetts bar for the first time last 100% July surpassed students of both Boston 90.3% 88.9% 87.1% University and Boston College, the first The School of Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, in time that’s happened in eight years. conjunction with the George Consortium — a national Dean Jeremy Paul credits the high pass network of public health law scholars, experts and rate to the school’s decision last spring to practitioners — has launched Public offer one-on-one bar prep sessions led by Health Law Watch, an initiative Kandace Kukas, who joined the law school focused on surveilling legal and in the new position of assistant dean and policy developments at the national director of bar admission programs.