A Pro-Slavery Bias Revealed
From the depths of Harvard Law’s history, Coquillette discovers things tri...
“If you want to avoid the mistakes of the past, you’d better know what the past is,” says J. Donald Mo...
In Brief
The Imperturbable
Marilyn Mosby ’05
How Baltimore’s state’s attorney became the prosecutor who quieted a tro...
Another death of a young black man in the hands of police, this time, in Baltimore. But this time, thing...
Exploring Magna Carta
Rare documents shine in library exhibition. Curated by Laurel Davis...
On the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, it seemed appropriate to explore the presence of that iconic do...
No More Wrongful Convictions
Unusual group of collaborators work to keep the innocent free....
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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 ...