Brainstorm

Brainstorm Summer 2020

The Elusive Remedy

An experienced eye looks at the Trump impeachment....

What exactly is impeachment and how did what occurred with Trump fit into its constitutional role? With only...

Brainstorm Winter 2020

How pre-Civil War blacks used the rule of law....

Who is an American citizen? That question was apparently settled by the Fourteenth Amendment, which declared...

Brainstorm Summer 2019

Rethinking our place in the world....

What does being a citizen mean in a world with increasingly fluid boundaries? Professor Dimitry Kochenov, Un...

Brainstorm Winter 2019

Making a case for rehabilitation....

Donnell Wright spent five-and-a-half years in prison for a 2004 drug arrest. Although he was a model prisone...

Brainstorm Summer 2018

Child of the South teaches lessons on justice....

Raised in the “Jim Crow” South, Geraldine Hines has been a public defender, name partner in a law firm, ...

Brainstorm Winter 2018

A generalist learns how to talk the talk....

Paul M. Smith has argued 19 US Supreme Court cases, most notably the landmark case Lawrence v. Texas, wh...

Brainstorm Summer 2017

Perhaps, if were are able to find common ground. ...

Martin O’Malley, a 2016 presidential candidate who served as governor of Maryland and mayor of Baltimo...

Brainstorm Winter 2017

A native daughter takes on Riker’s challenges, and more....

Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark, a 1983 graduate of BC, is the first woman district attorney of Bronx C...

Brainstorm Summer 2016

Turning a law degree to advantage in the corporate arena....

James M. Micali ’73 spent thirty-one years at tire giant Michelin and was chairman and president of Michel...

Brainstorm Winter 2016

Musings about life on the big bench....

This conversation began with a discussion between Dean Vincent Rougeau and Associate Justice Elena Kagan, t...