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Online Exclusives Oct 2017

‘A New and Exciting Program’

Innovation and entrepreneurship business law initiative engages community, c...

BC Law’s Program on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PIE) hosted its launch event on October 5, a panel di...

Coverage of "After Charlottesville" event in East Wing 120 of the Law School. Participants included (L-R): Assist. Prof. Daniel Farbman; Cathleen Kaveney, Prof. of the Libby Chair; Dean Vincent Rougeau; and Vlad Perju, Assoc. Dir. of the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy; all BC Law.

Online Exclusives Oct 2017

Trying to Understand Charlottesville

Panel searches for a way forward after the violence in Virginia. ...

“The values on which constitutional democracy rest have been profoundly shaken by the events in Charlottes...

Photo/Reba Saldanha Rapport Center for Law and Public Policy panel on terror vs. hate crimes October 5, 2017

Online Exclusives Oct 2017

Crimes of Terror, Crimes of Hate: Three Perspectives

US Attorneys describe what happens behind the scenes when mass tragedies occ...

What is a terrorist act? How does one respond to terrorism or a hate crime? Three past and present US Attor...

Online Exclusives Oct 2017

The Environment as Time Bomb

Half the population of Massachusetts lives in places that make them vulnerab...

Environmental racism is perhaps a far greater problem than most people realize, but rooting out the probl...

Online Exclusives Oct 2017

Henry Lee Talks Forensic Science at Homicide Forum

Expert who worked on O.J. Simpson, JonBenet Ramsey cases keynotes conference...

Renowned forensic scientist Henry C. Lee, founder of the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science at the U...

Online Exclusives Oct 2017

Regulation Is Not a Dirty Word

Sen Edward Markey ’72 vows to continue the fight to protect consumers....

Calling upon Boston College Law School students to rise to civic duty, US Senator Edward J. Markey ’72 inv...

Online Exclusives Oct 2017

What Does It Mean to ‘Own’ Someone?

Yale scholar explores historic notions of property in Clough jurisprudence l...

Yale law professor James Q. Whitman lectured on two early concepts of property ownership—that of owning la...

Online Exclusives Oct 2017

Dean’s Column: DACA and Our Campus Community

In a recent Sunday edition of the New York Times, op-ed columnist Frank Bruni reminded us that of the 965 grants given out by the MacArthur Foundation, 209 awardees were born outsi...

Online Exclusives Oct 2017

Saving Constitutional Democracy: An Interview with Vlad Perju

Around the world, populists are wreaking havoc on constitutional democracies by engaging in high-stakes games of political hardball. In a grave setback for Poland’s independent j...