BC Law Magazine Summer 2015 Flip Book Edition
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Summer 2015
Features
“God Bless the Child
That’s Got Her Own”
Taisha Sturdivant ’16 faced poverty, danger, and near-homelessness, but sh...
The world as she knew it ended for Taisha Sturdivant eleven years ago on the day her mother died of comp...
The Guardian of the Melting Pot
Himself a Jewish, Turkish, Polish, Cuban American, León Rodriguez ’88 gui...
León Rodriguez sat impassively at the witness table in the wood-paneled hearing room of the Dirksen Sen...
The Go-To Guy
Nevada’s top appellate lawyer Daniel Polsenberg ’82 thought he’d seen ...
When the verdict came in, in spring of 2010, Las Vegas attorney Daniel F. Polsenberg ’82 was waiting t...
Docket
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...
A Search for Equality
Breaking the gridlock of race, poverty, and immigration....
The following are edited excerpts from a conversation between Dean Vincent Rougeau and Darnell L. Williams, ...
A Head for Numbers
Kate Barton is that rare person who uses “tax” and “funin the same sen...
Pocket Résumé Kate Barton ’87: From “humble origins” in Brighton, Massachusetts, to Americas Vice C...
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 ...
Asking the Deeper Questions
Professor Kohler’s exploration of philosophy and German labor law provides...
At the family dinner table one night in Saginaw, Michigan, when Thomas Kohler was just in high school, h...
Throwing the Book at Federal Regulators
Professor Patricia McCoy’s pivotal role in righting the mortgage market. ...
Pocket Résumé Diplomas: Oberlin College, AB. University of California (Berkeley), JD. Interests: Insur...
2014 Grads Score on the Jobs Front
Highly skilled students, smart placement initiatives yield impressive career...
There is good news at Boston College Law School. Thanks to a variety of innovative programs developed by...
The Solution Seeker
Andrew Haile ’15 finds his calling in helping others. ...
Student Snapshot Provenance: Grew up on campuses in Connecticut and Ohio, the son of a prep school English ...
Esquire
New Chairs Support Business Law Scholarship
McCoy and Shnitser are celebrated as inaugural Liberty Mutual and Donohue pr...
Two professors who recently joined the BC Law School faculty— Patricia McCoy and Natalya Shnitser—and th...
Generosity Has Its Rewards
Now in its tenth year, the Scholarship Dinner brings donors and students clo...
(Photo IDs are left to right) 1. Christian Chorba’15 and John Boc ’74. 2. Roger Bougie ’62, Hayoung Ch...
Law Day 2015
(Photo IDs are left to right) 1. 2015 Honorees: David Schoen ’84, Professor Robert Bloom ’71, Professor Emerita Ruth-Arlene W. Howe ’74, and Honorable Leslie Harris ’84. 2....
Commencement 2015
Top Obama aide David Simas ’95 addressed graduates at BC Law’s 83rd Commencement May 22, imploring them to be true to values and ethics they learned at the Law School. The dire...
In Every Issue
A Pipeline to a Better World
What better place than the Law School to witness how a pipeline works. At its entrance every fall stands a cluster of nervous, aspiring lawyers; from its egress every spring emerge...
An Elusive Goal within Reach
Technology seems poised to help more lawyers deliver affordable legal assist...
A recent long weekend gave me time to catch up on a favorite television show, Mad Men. Although it is obviou...
Correspondence
School’s Visibility Heightened by Magazine BC Law Magazine has made an amazing transformation this year. The increase in online presence, the boost in photography and graphics, ...
Is the First Amendment Working?
Protections can do more harm than good....
Every few months it seems we hear yet another example of hate speech on campus. This past winter a viral vid...