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 ...
In Brief
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...
By the Numbers
Boston College Law School continues to impress with top rankings in a variet...
No. 3 Top 10 public/private law schools that “pay off” (salary to debt ratio) No.1 Private school —US News andWorld Report No. 13 Most alumni promoted to partner —National Law Journal No. 16 Top law schools —Above the Law No. 26 Overall rank 2017 4+ Places rose since 2016 10+ Places rose in past 3 years No. 20 Rank of tax program No. 22 Ra...
Scholars Try to Right Many Wrongs
A condemnation of America’s failure to adequately protect marginalized citizens, a scholarly outcry against solitary confinement, and a cautionary preview of Trump’s potential ...
It Takes More Than Steel to Modernize a Navy
Secretary Ray Mabus builds a legacy of equality, humanity....
Among the accomplishments that Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said he was most proud of was improving the q...
Protector-In-Chief
A glimpse into the life of a Solicitor General. ...
During a turn last October as Distinguished Lecturer of the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy, form...
Around the Academy
Charles J. Ogletree Jr. and Kimberly Robinson: The discrimination law scholars discussed The Enduring Legacy of Rodriguez: Creating New Pathways to Equal Educational Opportunit...
Raising the Bar
Moot Champs: The BC Law National Moot Court Team took home the sixty-seventh national New England Regional Championship title in November. Morgan Sellers, Jennifer Lang, and Rufus Urion prevailed over Vermont in the finals after defeating Suffolk Law and Boston University, where the competition was held. Lang was named Best Oralist. The students are competing in the national finals in New York in late January. Good Deeds: Massach...
Discourse that Unites Not Incites
Kaveny’s books offer a vision for a better world....
Like so many, Cathleen Kaveny thinks our current political climate is “almost hopelessly polarized.”...