SJC Justice Hines Will Join Rappaport in Spring
Geraldine S. Hines, an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, will be the Spring 2018 Jerome Lyle Rappaport Distinguished Visiting Professor. She will teac...
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Clinics Expand to Meet Student Demand
Aspiring lawyers get hands-on experience helping prisoners and innovators in...
BC Law’s Center for Experiential Learning launched several new programs this year that have been putting s...
Former US Attorney Ortiz to Teach at BC Law
Top prosecutor will offer course in national security law as Rappaport Disti...
Carmen M. Ortiz, who as United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts took on such high profiles ...
This Is Dangerous Thinking
Jurist reminds us that there is no such thing as a "nice little nuclear war....
On April 8, President Trump met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Florida for the first of their much-antici...
Associate Justice Geraldine Hines to Speak at Commencement
A former civil rights attorney and appeals court judge, Hines is the first A...
Geraldine S. Hines, associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, will address the Class of...
Refugee Law Reimagined
Aleinikoff argues for a new state system for resettlement and integration.
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Despite the widespread media attention to a global refugee “crisis,” refugee law scholar and practitione...
Intellectual Property Law Races to Keep Up in Digital Age
The ownership of ideas has become increasingly hard to manage....
Serving as a vital pillar supporting the modern market economy, intellectual property law often goes unrecog...
Sorting Out the Tensions in Immigration Enforcement
Experts look at why state and federal interests are often in conflict....
On April 4, BC Law's Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy held a day-long conference, “State/Feder...
Beware the Collateral Consequences
The Heritage Foundation's John Malcolm says removing penalties imposed on re...
Criminal justice reform has been a trending topic this semester at BC Law. A talk by John Malcolm of the Her...
A Champion of Human Rights
Moreno-Ocampo keeps late student's memory and mission alive....
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, who has been among The Atlantic’s Brave Thinkers and one of Foreign Policy’s Top Glo...
Navajo AG Says Tribal Law Deserves More Respect
Students learn about differences in Native American and US legal systems....
Ethel Branch, the eleventh attorney general of the Navajo Nation, visited Boston College Law School on April...
Why the Charitable Sector Is Critical to Tax Reform
Ray Madoff gathers nonprofit leaders to ensure the public good is not forgot...
Professor Ray Madoff, co-founder and director of the Boston College Law School Forum on Philanthropy and the...
Two Provocateurs Take on Criminal Justice Reform
Adam Foss and Edwin Lindo say 'enough!' with traditional thinking....
Two activists, in back-to-back events at BC Law in late March, challenged students to rethink their preconce...