A Conversation with First Circuit Judge David Barron
First Circuit Court of Appeals Judge David Barron engaged in a wide-ranging interview with Boston College Founders Professor Mary Bilder in March, in which he discussed his persona...
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Dean’s Column: What “Making a Murderer” Can Teach Us About Human Bias
Earlier this spring, the Law School and our Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy welcomed two celebrity guests to campus: "Making a Murderer’s" Dean Strang and Walter Kelly...
US Senator Jeanne Shaheen to Address the Class of 2016
Jeanne Shaheen, US Senator and former Governor for New Hampshire, will give the Commencement Address at the 2016 Boston College Law School Commencement on May 27, 2016. The Law ...
Fairness Was Foremost for Marathon Bombing Judge
George O'Toole opens a window on the nitty gritty due process in a terrorism...
On April 6, almost three years out from the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, Boston College Law School welcomed...
Mosby Speaks to Students’ Passion at PILF Auction
Baltimore’s state's attorney raises the stakes in bid for social justice....
Perhaps the biggest prize at BC Law’s Public Interest Law Foundation auction March 31 was the appearance o...
Rappaport Conference Seeks to Take the ‘Crisis’ out of Student Debt
Deputy treasury secretary decries enormity of burden students carry....
The plight of students laboring under tens of thousands of dollars of student loans, as well as possible sol...
Imagine Boston 2030 Offers Vision of City’s Future
A panel discussion cosponsored by the Law School’s Rappaport Center for Public Policy brought Imagine Boston 2030, the city’s first comprehensive planning process in 50 years, ...
BC Law’s Pro Bono Commitment Praised by State’s High Court
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Geraldine Hines (pictured) and members of the SJC’s Pro Bono Standing Committee, which recently heard faculty and a student panel dis...
Data’s Seat at the Government Table
Appreciation grows for the power of data to bring government and citizenry c...
Data is the side-view mirror of government. “It helps us figure out where our blind spots are,” said Dan...
‘Making a Murderer’ Attorneys Offer Off-Camera View of Startling Story
Walter Kelly ’68 and Dean Strang explore the many ethical challenges of St...
Among all the tricky relationships that lawyers handle daily, one that is little understood is the relations...