Vision Quest
BC Law becomes an incubator launching lawyers into a startup world where it ...
Landon Stinson ’19 went to law school interested in too many things. Or so it seemed. An economics major i...
Winter 2021
Features
No Holds Barred
How Project Entrepreneur is remaking the lives of the formerly incarcerated....
Carlos Omar Montes arrived in the Bay state from Puerto Rico in the winter of 2007, when he was seventeen ye...
In Pursuit of Justice
The eloquent admission essays of five new BC Law students....
At a time when thoughtful narratives are easily overrun in the rush to capture the moment in texts and tweet...
Emerging from Childhood Tragedy
Matt Burton ’21 walks with the working class....
Student Snapshot Provenance: Salisbury, Massachusetts. Learning BA in English, Salem State University. Pre-...
Docket
An Adventurer Finds Her Calling
Judge Ramona See ’85 only sits still on the bench....
Pocket Résumé Ramona See ’85: Judge, Los Angeles Superior Court. Certifiably Adventurous: See is an avi...
Female Imprimatur: Women in the Lawbook Trade
This current BC Law Library exhibit was inspired by the 100th anniversary in August 2020 of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted suffrage to some—though certainl...
Truth and Consequences
Harvard Law’s history, Nazis and all....
Pocket Résumé Degrees: BA, summa cum laude, Williams, 1966; BA Juris Oxford, 1969; JD, magna cum laude,...
A New Reckoning
Remedies for the sickness of racism....
Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones, past president of the American Public Health Association, senior fellow at the Mor...
A Leap of Faith
Lawyers can soar in the startup ecosystem....
Given all the disruptions to livelihoods and businesses in 2020, a case can be made that the w...
Free! Again, Again, and Again
The Innocence Program wins release of three clients in 2020....
The BC Innocence Program (BCIP) achieved an extraordinary trifecta in 2020. Three clients—Frances Choy, Th...
Toward a More Inclusive Campus
Brathwaite heads BC Law’s new diversity program....
Lisa Brathwaite, a specialist in legal higher education affinity groups and minority and race issues, has jo...
Good Governance Matters
A group of BC Law students have put feet to pavement to improve the policies underpinning modern political systems. Their first step was forming the Good Governance Project (GGP), ...
Esquire
On with the Show
There was no stopping the enthusiasm for a virtual Reunion 2020....
BC Law’s 2020 Reunion may have been all-remote, but it spanned eight days of jam-packed programming. The e...
One of Their Favorite Things
The Huvelle family celebrates its fondness for BC Law with a scholarship....
Four-year-old Charlie Huvelle has a lot of favorites. But there are two extra-special things in his world th...
A Man of Kindness
A Tribute to Kevin Curtin ’88...
When news of Kevin Curtin’s death from a heart attack on December 10 reached Boston College Law School, th...
Generations
Dean Papademetriou ’87, his niece Anastasia Kurkuvelos ’19, and his sister (and Anastasia’s mother) Jane Kourtis ’89. Generations is an ongoing series of ...
In Every Issue
Courting Change
To save SCOTUS, let’s create another one....
The Supreme Court needs saving. Trump politicized the Court like never before. And Republican presidents hav...
At a Crossroads in Our History
Marshalling the forces of law as AALS president....
I sometimes find it hard to wrap my head around everything that happened in 2020, and as we move into 2021 ...
A Better Future? We Can Do This
Enough of yesterday. There are things about tomorrow worth heralding. Among them are the ambitious and the caring individuals in our broad community who have tied their futures to ...
For the Record
What About Universal Basic Income? I was happy to see BC Law advancing proposals for change responsive to the environmental, social, political and health “pandemics” we’...