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Around the Academy

Hot topics at the lectern.

       
Arthur Traldi

An international lawyer and former prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Traldi spoke to students from the Holocaust and Human Rights Project about his work in human rights law. He shared insights from his experience as a litigator of genocide allegations, crimes against humanity, and violations of the law of armed conflict.


Michael Cannon

The Federalist Society hosted the Cato Institute’s director of health policy studies to speak on the impact of the Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright. With his scholarship spanning public health, medical malpractice litigation, administrative law, international health systems, and more, he has been named one of Washington, DC’s, most influential people annually from 2021 to 2024.


Malik Ghachem

The professor of history and head of MIT’s history department presented at BC Law’s Legal History Roundtable on his work in the areas of slavery and abolition, criminal law, and constitutional history. His book The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2012) received the American Historical Association’s J. Russell Major Prize for the best work in English on French history.


Liz Fisher

The Oxford University environmental law professor addressed the community at a climate and migration lecture in coordination with BC Law and Boston College’s Schiller Institute and Program on Global Ethics and Social Trust. The expert in environmental and administrative law shared lessons from her three decades of researching environmental regulation.


Atinuke Adediran

Speaking at BC Law’s Regulation & Markets Workshop, Adediran presented her work on mitigating corporate washing, a practice of misleadingly portraying themselves. An associate professor at Fordham Law School, her scholarship examines legal institutions through an empirical sociological lens. She also researches corporate responses to social pressures to address societal inequity.