The Heart of Desperation
In his inaugural lecture, a visiting Rappaport professor pins his hopes for ...
Why did you compare Trump supporters to Nazis and the KKK?” a self-described conservative student asked fo...
In Brief
Falling Through the Cracks
On matters of crime and immigration, a gap persists between state and federa...
The disconnect between state and federal courts in adjudicating criminal cases and the impact of that schism...
Guns and Roses
How respect for both sides could lead to reform....
Two panelists well schooled in the intricacies of gun control, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (...
Creating Citizens Out of Criminals
Chief Justice Gants offers his vision of a reformed justice system....
Though progress has been made throughout our republic in the treatment of those accused and convicted of cri...
Let’s Share the Burden
Former UN official condemns the ‘feel-good route to avoid responsibility...
In a period of political turmoil surrounding border security and forced migration, former UN Deputy High Com...
Around the Academy
Eric Muller: The University of North Carolina law professor is the author of three books on the wartime status of Japanese Americans. He discussed the contradiction between the unj...
“Robert Morris: Lawyer & Activist”
This exhibit in BC Law’s Daniel R. Coquillette Rare Book Room features books and papers from the personal collection of Morris, who was the second African American lawyer in the ...
Ortiz and Hines Named Rappaport Professors
Carmen M. Ortiz, former US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, and Geraldine S. Hines, an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, have been named as ...
Philanthropy Forum Siezes the Initiative
A March gathering orchestrated by Professor Ray Madoff, co-founder and director of the Boston College Law School Forum on Philanthropy and the Public Good, was one of the few times—since charitable tax benefits were enacted 100 years ago—that nonprofit leaders met to consider tax issues through the particular lens of operating nonprofits. Some twenty-five executives—among them heads of the United Way Worldwide, American Heart A...
Change-Makers
A Safeguard for Juveniles: A prize-winning paper by Hana Sahdev ’17 has called attention to the fact that safeguards meant to protect children are failing them by not preventing uncounseled confessions. Sahdev won the American Constitution Society’s 2017 Constance Baker Motley National Student Writing Competition for “Juvenile Miranda Waivers and Wrongful Convictions,” which she wrote for her Wrongful Convictions seminar. It is...