Dean’s Column: How to Avoid the Next 2008
This fall, law school deans face two data points that—when combined—indicate trouble ahead. The most recent NALP placement statistics show a slight increase in the overall empl...
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Amid Rising Applications, A New Strategy for Law School Budgets
A message from Vincent D. Rougeau, Dean, Boston College Law School....
After many years of decline, law school applications are on the rise again. The most recent figures from the...
Dean’s Column: DACA and Our Campus Community
In a recent Sunday edition of the New York Times, op-ed columnist Frank Bruni reminded us that of the 965 grants given out by the MacArthur Foundation, 209 awardees were born outsi...
Justice Hines to Class of 2017: “Speak the Truth”
Hines referenced lawyers fighting against racism and segregation in the deep...
Addressing the Boston College Law School Class of 2017, Geraldine Hines, associate justice of the Massachuse...
Yen to Receive Chris Kando Iijima Teacher and Mentor Award
BC Law Professor Alfred C. Yen will receive the 2016-2017 Professor Chris Kando Iijima Teacher and Mentor Award. Established by the Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty...
‘I Am a Leader, and I Sweat the Details’
A possible future president, Martin O'Malley challenges, amuses as a visiti...
It was late at night in Des Moines, Iowa, on February 1, 2016, when Martin O’Malley, flanked by his family...
Henriette’s Story: The Power of Law
At our student orientation last August, I told the incoming 1L class about a recent book I had read by Henriette Ngenga, the mother of a young woman who used to babysit for my chil...
‘Scholar, Teacher, Leader, Friend’ Retiring After 36 Years at BC Law
James Rogers, who joined BC Law as a professor in 1980 and served as interim dean of the Law School during a long and distinguished career, will be retiring this spring after 36 ye...
Navy Secretary Keeps His Eye on the Horizon
In inaugural Dean's Distinguished Lecture, Ray Mabus urges aspiring lawyers ...
US Secretary of the Navy and former Mississippi Governor Ray Mabus presented the inaugural talk in the Dean...
Dean Inaugurates Distintinguished Lecture Series with Secretary of Navy Mabus
United States Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus (above with President Obama), a lawyer, one-time governor, and former Saudi ambassador, will present the inaugural Dean’s Distingui...