The Vision Project
The BC Law faculty discuss where the Covid-19 pandemic may lead us. There ar...
Minuscule in size as the Covid-19 virus is (125 nanometers), it has become a colossal disrupter forcing an e...
justice
Together in a Time of Crisis: A Letter from the Dean
Floyd’s senseless murder at the hands of those sworn to protect us is the ...
Dear friends: I know the pain that you are feeling because I am feeling it too. And I am tired. So very, ...
Deans Column: Just Mercy for Criminal Justice
In the end, who we are and what we do as a Jesuit, Catholic law school is ro...
In October, Bryan Stevenson, the acclaimed criminal defense lawyer and author of the best-selling book, Just...
BC Innocence Clinic Students Help Vacate Conviction
In an important new ruling, Darrell Jones, who was convicted 30 years ago of a murder that he did not commit, has had his conviction vacated by Plymouth County Superior Court Judge...
There Is So Much Left to Do
As the number of exonerees climbs, advocates and the victim of a wrongful co...
Three months to the day after his exoneration for a 1981 murder he didn’t commit, Fred Clay sat on a pane...
‘If There’s a Better Way, We Should Be Doing It’
Panelists put fairness at the heart of bail reform.
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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s August decision in Brangan v. Commonwealth, and the State Senat...
Saving Constitutional Democracy: An Interview with Vlad Perju
Around the world, populists are wreaking havoc on constitutional democracies by engaging in high-stakes games of political hardball. In a grave setback for Poland’s independent j...
BC Law Innocence Program Joins Policy Push to Help Exonerees
Wrongful Conviction Day highlights two key bills in MA Legislature: forensic...
On October 2, the Boston College Innocence Program co-hosted an event in observance of Wrongful Conviction D...
Ortiz Begins Visiting Professorship with Lecture on US Attorney’s Role
Massachusetts' former chief prosecutor to speak about key challenges, includ...
Former US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz, who is this academic year's first Jerome Lyle Rappaport Visiting Profess...
Innocence Program Grads Help Free Man from Prison
An innocent man has been freed from prison, and BC Law recent grad Rufus Urion '17 and the Law School's Innocence Program contributed to the effort to bring about his release. ...