Professor Ramirez is a criminal justice expet and founder of the Partnering for Prevention and Community Safety Intitiative (PfP). Professor Ramirez is dedicated to teaching and working within the network of students and professors at Northeastern University. She teaches criminal justice for first year students, along with advanced courses in criminal procedure and post-9/11 civil rights vis-à-vis counter-terrorism. She also seeks to actively engage the student body in topics relating to criminal law in additional projects, including assistance to Northeastern’s Criminal Justice Society, along with presentations on extradition in conjunction with Northeastern’s first-year social justice projects in the Legal Skills in Social Context program. Beyond this, she works extensively with Northeastern’s Latin American Law Students Association (LALSA). In connection with PfP, Professor Ramirez works with academia, law enforcement, and community leaders in the US and Europe to implement community-partnership based counter-terrorism programs. Her belief is that we will only truly be safe from terrorist attacks when law enforcement adopts a strategy focused on building trust and strengthening relationships with the American Muslim, Arab and Sikh communities. Her written work includes a “Promising Practices Guide” on how to develop partnerships between law enforcement and these communities. Before joining the Northeastern faculty in 1989, Professor Ramirez was an associate with the Boston law firm of Hale and Dorr and an assistant US attorney in Boston, where she was assigned to the Organized Crime Drug Task Force Unit. In that position, she was in charge of numerous investigations, trials and appeals. Professor Ramirez is an elected director of the Harvard Alumni Association board and a member of the board of advisors for Harvard Law School’s Civil Rights/Civil Liberties Law Review.
Articles
Affirmative jury selection: a proposal to advance both the deliberative ideal and jury diversity, School of Law Faculty Publications (1998)
My thesis is that the racial, religious, and ethnic diversity of the jury has a...
Contributions to Books
Community Partnerships Thwart Terrorism (with Tara Lai Quinlan, Sean M. Malloy, and Taylor Shutt), Preventing Ideological Violence (2013)
With homegrown terrorism an issue of growing concern to the national security community, creating and...