Doing Things the Law Firm Way
Students work in real time at the Center for Experiential Learning....
Heather Perez ’17 knew exactly what she wanted in a law school. She applied only to those with strong immi...
In Brief
By the Numbers
BC Law remains among the nation's top law schools....
2016 RANKINGS 2 BC Law’s rank in PreLaw Magazine’s list of best public interest schools 3 Boston’s rank in PreLaw Magazine’s list of best cities for young attorneys 19 BC Law’s rank in National Jurist’s list of schools that produce most Big Law partners 30 BC Law rose 4 places in the US News and World Report rankings EMPLOYMENT F...
The Curious History of the Estate Tax Repeal
Professor James Repetti ’80 welcomed tax scholars from ten law schools and the US Treasury Department to BC Law October 9 in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Estate an...
Beneath the Migration Crisis, Cruel Realities
How the rules of exclusion can hurt....
Globalization has not been kind to migrants, contrary to what many observers thought at the turn of the 21st...
Why Gender Shouldn’t Matter in Politics
Women leaders take the myth and mystery out of governance....
A panel discussion among some of Massachusetts’ most politically astute women was the official kickoff eve...
A Cautionary Tale About the Notes of James Madison
Since their publication in 1840, James Madison’s notes on the framing of the Constitution have been seen as a reliable, real-time account of the 1787 Constitutional Convention. T...
Around the Academy
Sharon Post: Chief Judge Post and two colleagues from the Federal Circuit of Appeals in Washington, DC, held a rare special session at BC Law in October, hearing oral arguments...
Raising the Bar
Circuit Successes: On the heels of two stunning victories by BC Law students in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last summer came similar results in December in two cases in the First Circuit. Professor Mary Holper and former students in the Immigration Clinic won for their client, who is facing deportation, a remand to the Board of Immigration Appeals for reconsideration of her case. Then, in United States v. Castro-Vazquez, argued b...
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...
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...