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 ...
Chief Justice Gants Argues for ‘More Human’ Courts
Says minimum mandatory sentences and court fees are burdensome to our crimin...
An important part of what makes our modern democratic-republican system one that is of laws and not of men i...
A Forceful Voice for Others with Disabilities
Michael Amoruso ’94 was behind a major legislative victory that empowers i...
Political, constitutional, and legal successes don’t come easy. Behind policies and bills coming from the ...
Peter Donovan Loved a Good Argument—and His Students
The scary 'big man' with a heart of gold is remembered....
Professor Emeritus Peter Donovan ’60, a brilliant, tough-minded teddy bear of a guy whom students affectio...
Does Transnational Law Hold the Secret to Global Justice?
Scholar says this legal discipline can bring useful ideas to modern law....
What is transnational law? How do we define law in an emerging global world? These are the types of question...
2L Wins Student Writing Competition
National Law Review honors Robert Park for article on credit card marketing ...
The National Law Review has selected an article by Robert Park ’18 as a winner in its Student Writing Comp...
Internet Watchdog Says Nation’s Cybersecurity Is in a Sorry State
Lawfare's Jack Goldsmith believes that negotiation and diplomacy may be the ...
There is a saying from 19th century strategist and military reformer Carl Von Clausewitz that “war is the ...
Soto ’17 Receives Immigrant Justice Corps Fellowship
BC Law third-year student Natali Soto has been selected to receive a 2017 Immigrant Justice Corps (IJC) fellowship, one of 25 across the country. [caption id="attachment_5554" a...
If the Library of Attorney Robert Morris Could Speak…
A new exhibit of books and papers of one of America’s first black lawyers ...
The Daniel R. Coquillette Rare Book Room at Boston College Law School has opened its spring exhibi...
BC Law Teams Win Accolades in Moot Court Contests
3Ls earn the respect of coaches and adversaries in major competitions....
BC Law teams in the Jessup, Braxton, European Union and National moot court competitions won various honors ...
Muslim Students Reply to Immigration Ban
Zain Ahmad and Mousa al Mosawy ponder the effects of Trump's effort to keep ...
Third-year law student Zain Ahmad’s parents emigrated from Pakistan to New Jersey and worked blue collar j...