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Gender Injustice Revealed in Groundbreaking Report on Juvenile Justice System

According to BC Law clinical professor Francine Sherman ’80, author of a shocking new report, Gender Injustice, girls are now making up a larger share of the juvenile ...

September 25, 2015

Online Exclusives

BC Law Expands Summer Institute: Foundations of US Law

Many international law students are looking for a summer program that will introduce them to the US legal system. Boston College Law School’s Summer Institute: ...

August 24, 2015

Online Exclusives

Lawyers for Affordable Justice to Launch in 2016

The law schools at Boston College, Boston University and Northeastern University will launch Lawyers for Affordable Justice (LAJ) — a “lawyer incubator” program —in January ...

July 15, 2015

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Challenges Facing Central American Migrants Outlined in New Report

Boston College Law School, in partnership with 12 other U.S.-based Jesuit law schools and the Jesuit Refugee Service/USA (JRS/USA), has announced the release of “A ...

June 16, 2015

Light the World

New Chairs Support Business Law Scholarship

McCoy and Shnitser are celebrated as inaugural Liberty Mutual and Donohue professors.

In Brief

Around the Academy

Elisabeth J. Medvedow: BC Law’s Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy in May welcomed Medvedow as its new executive director. She came to the ...

Global Engagement

Asking the Deeper Questions

Professor Kohler’s exploration of philosophy and German labor law provides rare insight into fundamental differences in how Americans and Europeans think.

By Jeri Zeder
Summer 2015

Global Engagement

Globe-Trotting

Collaborating Across the Pond: While a student in the London Program last semester, Rita Muse ’15 interned at Justice, where she was tasked with creating ...

Faculty Scholarship

Throwing the Book at Federal Regulators

Professor Patricia McCoy’s pivotal role in righting the mortgage market.

By David Reich
Summer 2015

Faculty Scholarship

Notable Faculty Publications

Professor Dean M. Hashimoto co-authored “Impact of Organizational Policies and Practices on Workplace Injuries in a Hospital Setting” in the Journal of Occupational & Environmental ...

Faculty Scholarship

BC Law Faculty Achievements

He Rules: Professor Mark Brodin, editor of the Handbook of Massachusetts Evidence, has been named editor of the six-volume treatise, Weinstein’s Federal Evidence. He was ...

Online Exclusives

Albert Convenes Groundbreaking Comparative Constitutional Amendment Workshop

Twenty-three scholars from over a dozen countries gathered at BC’s Fulton Hall on May 15, 2015, for a rare, invitation-only workshop on comparative constitutional amendment. ...

By Jeri Zeder
May 21, 2015

Online Exclusives

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

Online Exclusives

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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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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