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...
In Brief
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...
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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