The Influencers
There is perhaps no other place in America where a lawyer’s ability to mak...
From Congress to the Pentagon, from the State Department to public broadcasting, in law enforcement agencies...
Features
“I, Ellen Huvelle,
Do Solemnly Swear”
Known for her legendary efficiency and human touch as a judge of the federal...
She has decided the fate of an alleged Somalian pirate, forced the release of Guantánamo detainees, ruled t...
The Impact Generation
Making a difference takes on many meanings in Washington, DC, where tens of ...
LANCE WADE ’02 A noted criminal defender restores a businessman to his former life. Lance Wade repre...
The China Syndrome
Peter Zeidenberg ’85 comes to the defense of two Chinese Americans accused...
Clearly, it was just a bad dream. Jenny Xi, who was six years old when enforcers of Mao’s Cultural Revolut...
Guardians At the Gate
BC Law’s public servants in Congress proudly stand for ‘an equal opportu...
BC Law has a storied history of public service as exemplified by past and present members of Congress. Two o...
US Representative Robert F. Drinan, SJ
Robert F. Drinan, SJ, the first Catholic priest elected to Congress, had spent the previous years as the dean of BC Law. He put the Law School on the national map by building a geo...
US Representative Margaret Heckler ’56
Elected to Congress in 1966, Margaret Heckler ’56 wasted no time. She served eight terms as a Republican representative, was Secretary of Health and Human Services for nearly thr...
The Choice
DraftKings, Uber, and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie are among recent cl...
It seems right to start with the green beans. One summer long ago, Debra Wong Yang and her family left their...
The Two Sides of the Truth
Walt Kelly’s efforts to win a $36 million wrongful conviction settlement f...
Walt Kelly ’68 didn’t have a starring role in Making a Murderer. He wasn’t a player in the sexual assa...
There Was No Day, No Night, Nothing to Mark the Time
A prison within a prison, solitary confinement has reached epidemic proporti...
After failing a urine analysis for drugs in a Maine state prison in 2003, Joseph Jackson spent a year in sol...