No More Wrongful Convictions
Unusual group of collaborators work to keep the innocent free....
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In Brief
Longtime Admissions Head Retires
Rita Jones Simpson served nineteen years....
Admissions chief Rita Jones Simpson is on to the next chapter. For the 2,600 students who’ve enrolled at B...
‘A Historic Night’
Admirers recall Professor Katz’s loyalty and caring at retirement party....
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Where Is the Will to Stop Mass Killings?
Genocide can’t be measured by the lives it takes. The defining metric is t...
When we hear the word genocide, many of us think of mass killings like the Jewish and Armenian holocausts or...
Are We in an Equality Recession’?
Panel explores causes and effects of turninga blind eye to injustices....
Last year the nation marked the sixtieth anniversary of the Brown v Board of Education ruling, in which the ...
Around the Academy
Elisabeth J. Medvedow: BC Law’s Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy in May welcomed Medvedow as its new executive director. She came to the Law School from Discovering...
Young Achievers
Speaking Truth to Power: Alaskan Sam Gottstein ’15 parlayed his Boston College Law Review note on domestic and sexual assault and alcohol abuse among Alaska Natives into a Clough Center travel grant that enabled him to testify before the Alaska State Legislature in March. He discussed tribal jurisdiction and how the status quo in Alaska fails to adequately protect the rural Alaska Native population from this violence. His note argued ...
Extra! Extra!
For faculty, the medium is often the message....
As BC Law’s thought leaders figure more prominently in public discourse, their commentary and perspectives are generating media coverage and influencing the debate on many pressing issues. Professor Robert Bloom, for example, was a top legal authority on the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev marathon bombing case. More than thirty-five media outlets and programs, among them AB...
Ever the Hit Man, “Whitey” Bulger Stuffed the Truth
Panelists decry the missed opportunities at the mobster’s trial. ...
The prosecution of James “Whitey” Bulger in 2013 may have been the first postmodern criminal trial in wh...
Raising The Bar
Just Reward: For her single-minded dedication to immigrant youth since she was eighteen years old, Shannon Johnson ’15, pictured above, was one of two law students nationwide to ...