SJC Justice Hines Will Join Rappaport in Spring
Geraldine S. Hines, an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, will be the Spring 2018 Jerome Lyle Rappaport Distinguished Visiting Professor. She will teac...
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Clinics Expand to Meet Student Demand
Aspiring lawyers get hands-on experience helping prisoners and innovators in...
BC Law’s Center for Experiential Learning launched several new programs this year that have been putting s...
Former US Attorney Ortiz to Teach at BC Law
Top prosecutor will offer course in national security law as Rappaport Disti...
Carmen M. Ortiz, who as United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts took on such high profiles ...
Scholar’s Ideas Figure Prominently in EU Report
Professor Daniel Lyons’ stand on controversial topic informs telecom’s f...
Extensively citing the work of Professor Daniel Lyons, the European Union on June 14 released a 200-page rep...
Beckman, Devlin Joyce Present at AALS Clinical Conference
BC Law Professor Sharon Beckman was a featured guest on a panel about The Role of Clinics in Pursuing Systemic Change in the Criminal Justice System at the 40th annual Association ...
Justice Hines to Class of 2017: “Speak the Truth”
Hines referenced lawyers fighting against racism and segregation in the deep...
Addressing the Boston College Law School Class of 2017, Geraldine Hines, associate justice of the Massachuse...
‘Abacus: Small Enough to Jail’
A new film captures the saga of a family of lawyers, two of them BC Law alum...
In the aftermath of the economic shockwave of the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, M...
BC Law #16 in Law Grads Hiring Report
National Law Journal ranks schools by the number of full-time, long-term, JD...
The National Law Journal has released its annual report of graduate employment, and BC Law has come in at #1...
BC Law Journals Consolidate
The merger preserves the interests of specialty journals and expands the siz...
The law reviews at BC Law are entering a new era in which three specialty journals are being incorporated in...
SJC Upholds Earlier Ruling Granting Rosario New Trial
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has upheld an earlier court's decision in the case of Victor Rosario, who was originally sentenced to life in prison for a deadly 1982 fire...
‘Beloved’ Legal Writing Professor Retires
After a career that included stints in both the public and private sectors and more than 25 years of service to BC Law, Legal Reasoning, Research, and Writing Professor Judy Tracy ...
When Courts Are Enlightened, Society Advances
Brazilian justice takes a broad view of constitutional interpretation....
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Luis Roberto Barroso delivered the Clough Center for Constitutional Democrac...
Yen to Receive Chris Kando Iijima Teacher and Mentor Award
BC Law Professor Alfred C. Yen will receive the 2016-2017 Professor Chris Kando Iijima Teacher and Mentor Award. Established by the Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty...