Online Exclusives

Online Exclusives

Dean’s Column: Is the Legal Job Market Finally Turning Around?

On April 26th of this year, the New York Times Dealbook ran a story titled Burdened with Debt, Law School Graduates Struggle in Job Market. ...

May 21, 2015

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Celebrating Professor Sanford Katz

Professor Sanford Katz’s son Andy summed things up in one sentence: “This is an historic night.” He was speaking at the May 7 retirement party ...

By Vicki Sanders
May 8, 2015

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Bloom Chosen for Prestigious Trinity College Dublin Long Room Hub Fellowship

Boston College Law School Professor Robert Bloom has been named a recipient of the Trinity College Dublin Long Room Hub Fellowship, a distinguished recognition from ...

May 8, 2015

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Last Line of Defense: the High-Profile Path of J.W. Carney ’78

From Boston.com–Everyone seems to know Jay Carney (BC Law ’78). He’s the guy who defended James J. “Whitey” Bulger the mobster. And Tarek Mehanna the ...

May 5, 2015

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McCoy Testifies as Expert Panelist at Fed Regulatory Relief Outreach Meeting

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and the ensuing recession, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act to make sure easy money and loose credit ...

May 5, 2015

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Baltimore State’s Attorney Mosby ’05 Announces Criminal Charges in Gray Death

Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby has announced probable cause for criminal charges to be filed in the death of Freddie Gray. Gray’s death while in ...

May 1, 2015

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‘Appeals to the Privy Council’ Project Creators Win Andrews Award

BC Law professor Mary Bilder (pictured above) and professor emerita Sharon Hamby O’Connor, along with Harvard Law professor Charles Donahue, Jr., have been selected by ...

April 30, 2015

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West Named a NALP Diversity Champion

Tracey West, Associate Dean for External Relations, Diversity & Inclusion at Boston College Law School, has been named a National Association for Law Placement (NALP) ...

April 29, 2015

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Environmental Law Society’s “Wild” Winged Earth Day

Boston College Law School’s Environmental Law Society hosted an unusual guest for Earth Day 2015: Ruby, a Peregrine Falcon. Mark Fanning, a master falconer from ...

April 28, 2015

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Hurdle Cleared in Fight to Declare Chimps “Legal Persons”

Natalie Prosin ’11, the executive director of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), was quoted in an April 21st New York Times article that covers the latest in NhRP’s ...

April 23, 2015