Undo Influence?
Shu-Yi Oei detects flaws in the new tax law’s rulemaking process....
Pocket Résumé Degrees: BA magna cum laude, Brown, 1999; JD and MTS, Harvard, 2003. Credentials: Pro...
Faculty Scholarship
Notable Faculty Publications
Vlad Perju challenges the assertion that human rights were absent from the EU’s genesis. “On Uses and Misuses of Human Rights in European Constitutionalism,” his chapter in Human Rights, his Legitimacy, and a World in Disorder (Cambridge University Press), he writes:“[F]rom the beginning they were part of a comprehensive, effective, and normatively viable European legal order.” Francine Sherman ’80, in “Gender...
Faculty Milestones
Testifying in DC: David Olson appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 7. “It is thus critically important to find the right amount of patent protection (in terms of breadth and duration) that encourages adequate drug development but does not provide inefficiently long monopolies,” he said. Daniel Lyons spoke at a House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing on broadband internet access, arguing for universal conn...
‘Deportation World’
Kanstroom warns of rule-of-law and human rights catastrophe....
Pocket Résumé Degrees: JD, Northeastern, 1983; LLM, Harvard, 1992. Credentials: Extensive litigation ...
Faculty Milestones
Press-tige: Ray Madoff and James Repetti published influential op-eds on the new tax law in the New York Timesand The Hill, respectively. Madoff explained how Trump’s law favors people like himself, and Repetti argued that the law incentivizes factories to leave the US. The professors also have other accomplishments. Madoff is among the NonProfit Times’s Power & Influence Top 50 for the second year in a row, and Repetti has...
Notable Faculty Publications
Mark Brodin: In “Discriminatory Job Knowledge Tests, Police Promotions, and What Title VII Can Learn from Tort Law,” the Michael and Helen Lee Distinguished Scholar argues that, in test validation, courts should apply a common-sense definition of intentional discrimination similar to that used in tort litigation. His article was published in Boston College Law Review in 2018. Shu-Yi Oei: The tax policy expert, who has ...
Saying Yes to Reins on Net Neutrality
Professor Lyons argues zero-rated plans are good for consumers....
Pocket Résumé Degrees: AB and JD, both magna cum laude, Harvard University. Private Practice: Munger To...
Notable Faculty Publications
Cathleen Kaveny deepened her exploration into the connections between law, religion, and morality in Ethics at the Edges of Law: Christian Moralists and American Legal Thought, published by Oxford University Press in November. The book came close on the heels of the her award-winning essay collection, A Culture of Engagement: Law, Religion, and Morality. Michael Cassidy added to his accomplishments with “The Grand Jury: A S...
Faculty Milestones
Great Minds: Dean Hashimoto, who holds degrees from Stanford, Yale, UC Berkeley, Harvard, and UC San Francisco was elected last fall to the American Law Institute, a leading US organization producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and improve the law. He shares that distinction with BC Law colleagues Ray Madoff, R. Michael Cassidy, and Catherine Wells, among others. Hashimoto’s expertise lies in the interface of law, scienc...
Crime-Based Deportation Is ‘Absurd’
Professor Kari Hong comes out swinging in a fight to make immigration law mo...
PocketRésumé Diplomas: Swarthmore, BA; Columbia, JD. Credentials: Clerked in US District Court of North...