• Clinical Programs
• Civil Rights and Restorative Justice
• Domestic Violence Institute
• Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy
• Public Health Advocacy Institute
• Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project

The School of Law is a national leader in education, research and service initiatives addressing the most pressing challenges facing society. Through its clinics, institutes and research centers, faculty and students advocate together for those too-often underrepresented in the justice system. By crafting interdisciplinary approaches to complex problems, the clinics, institutes and research centers reflect a commitment to social and economic justice that distinguishes Northeastern as the nation's foremost public interest law school.

Public health hero Dr. Paul Farmer (in photos above), the founding director of Partners In Health, an international charity organization that provides direct health care services and advocacy, has dedicated his life to treating the world's poorest populations. Speaking at the law school in September 2006, he called upon law school students to embrace the concept that all AIDS victims worldwide, no matter how destitute or grim their circumstances, have the right to proper medical care.

Farmer implored the audience of roughly 200 to consider how unfair it is that AIDS treatments are so successful in extending life, yet far out of reach for the majority of impoverished citizens of Sub Saharan Africa.

So wrong is it to let people die when they could have their health largely restored with the proper medication regime, the right to health care should be elevated in the public mindset right along side civil rights and social justice, he said.