Law Faculty Experts
Our faculty can comment on a wide range of timely subjects. Click a topic on the menu to see a list of professors with links to their contact information. To search for a specific professor, visit the professor's biographical webpage. If you need assistance or are unable to reach an individual, please contact Patrick Collins at 617-422-7346 or pcollins@nesl.edu.
Legal Topics
Affirmative Action in Higher Education
Afghanistan, Post-conflict Issues
Appleseed Center for Law and Justice
Asylum Law and Asylum seekers
Attorney-Client Privilege
Blackmun, Justice/Environmental Law Opinions
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Post Conflict Reconstruction
Brokers (Financial Regulation)
Business Regulation (Investment Advisers, Financial Planners, Brokers, Dealers)
Civil Rights and Environmentalism
Class Mobility and the American Dream
Comparative Criminal Procedure (US, UK, and Canada)
Competence to Stand Trial
Criminal Law, International
Darfur and International Criminal Court
Dealers (Financial Regulation)
Detainee Abuse in Military Interrogations
Developmental Disability and the Criminal Justice System
Diminished Capacity Defense
DNA Testing, Post-conviction
Douglas, Justice/Environmental Law Opinions
East Timor, Post-conflict Issues
Education and Class Mobility
Environmental Activists (Rachel Carson, Bill McKibben, John Muir)
Federal Education Programs (including No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top)
Financial Regulation (Investment Advisers, Financial Planners, Brokers, Dealers)
First Amendment Religious Clauses
Garbage, Interstate Disposal of
Guantanamo Bay Interrogations
Human Rights and the United Nations
Human Rights Law, International
Immigration Law and Policy
Indigenous Peoples' Rights
Internal Armed Conflict and International Humanitarian Law
International Civil Service
International Criminal Court
International Criminal Law
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
International Environmental Law
Interstate Commerce and State Regulation
Investment Advisers (Financial Regulation)
Judicial selection (state and federal)
Juveniles and the Criminal Justice System
Law of Occupation and International Law
Legal Clinics and Clinical Education
Legal Education, First-Year Doctrine
Legal Education, Skills Training
Legal Education, Teaching Gender Issues
Legal Education, Teaching Methods
Legal Education, Values In
Legal Education: Teaching Public Interest Law
Legal History, Ancient World
Legal Judgments, Enforcement by Other Jurisdictions
Legal Services for the Poor
Liability of Shareholders, Officers, Directors
Little League Rules of Baseball
Massachusetts Constitutional Law
Massachusetts Court System
Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System
Military Interrogations and Detainee Abuse
New Hampshire Court System
Non-state Actors and International Law
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
Post Conflict Reconstruction
Post-conflict Issues and International Law
Post-conviction DNA Testing
Posthumous Conception and Inheritance Issues
Prepaid Tuition Plans and Tax Policy
Prisoners of War and International Humanitarian Law
Professional Responsibility (Lawyers)
Runners/Motorist and Property Owner Liability
Rwanda, International Criminal Tribunal
Same-Sex Unions, Recognition of
Sierra Leone, Post-conflict Issues and Special Court
Sudan and the International Criminal Court
Trade Secrets (Misappropriation)
Trafficking in Persons, International
Tuition Plans (Prepaid) and Tax Policy
War Crimes and International Law
War Crimes Tribunal for Rwanda
War Crimes Tribunal for Yugoslavia
Women in the Legal Profession
Womens Rights and International Human Rights
Yugoslavia, Post-conflict Issues and International Criminal Tribunal
