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Margaret Burnham is a University Distinguished Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of Africana Studies at Northeastern University, affiliated with the College of Social Sciences and Humanities and School of Law. She joined Northeastern Law in 2002 and founded the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), which investigates racially motivated crimes from 1930–1970. Her landmark legal work includes leading a 2010 federal lawsuit against Franklin County, Mississippi, for the lynching of Henry Dee and Charles Eddie Moore.
Education: BA, Tougaloo College (1966); LLB, University of Pennsylvania (1969). Awards include her historic appointment as the first African-American woman in the Massachusetts judiciary and her role investigating human rights abuses for Nelson Mandela. Her research focuses on civil rights, constitutional law, and restorative justice, with a focus on racial violence and systemic inequities.
Notable contributions include scholarly critiques of affirmative action, police brutality, and racial bias in legal systems. She advises on policy reforms and has testified in courts nationwide. Her writings, including op-eds on lynching memorials and modern racial justice movements, bridge academic scholarship with public advocacy.
