Faculty

Online Exclusives

‘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

Online Exclusives

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

Online Exclusives

Student Spotlight: Erika Artinger ’16

Erika Artinger ’16 came to BC Law with a deep background in science. Utilizing the Boston College Alumni network and connected professors, she was able ...

April 16, 2015

Online Exclusives

Ninth Circuit Appellate Clinic Students Make Their Arguments in Court

Watch a video of Schwartz and Sanders in court Third-year students Shannon Johnson, Alejandra Salinas, Jeremy Sanders, and Kelly Schwartz just stood before the Ninth Circuit Court of ...

April 7, 2015

Online Exclusives

Brodin Appointed Editor of Weinstein’s Federal Evidence

Professor Mark Brodin, editor of the bible known as the Handbook of Massachusetts Evidence, has a new gig: He is now also the editor of ...

By Jeri Zeder
April 6, 2015

Online Exclusives

Cassidy Helps Shape New SJC Rules of Professional Conduct

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) has released its final decisions on the proposed changes to the state’s rules of professional conduct. As a member ...

April 2, 2015

Online Exclusives

Partnership Focuses on Improving Resources for Immigrants

Boston College is part of a consortium of thirteen Jesuit law schools that have partnered with the nonprofit Jesuit Refugee Service/USA in an effort to ...

April 1, 2015

Online Exclusives

Ray Madoff Testifies Before Congress on Repeal of Estate Tax

Boston College Law Professor Ray Madoff testified in Washington, D.C., March 18 before the Congressional Ways and Means Committee on the issue of repealing the nearly century-old ...

March 18, 2015

Online Exclusives

Unprecedented Collaboration Works to Prevent Wrongful Convictions

BC Law hosts gathering of public defenders, prosecutors, courts, police, and public interest lawyers who hope to improve evidence-handling and procedures for post-conviction innocence claims

By Jeri Zeder
March 16, 2015

Online Exclusives

Beckman Appointed to SJC Committee on Eyewitness ID, NEIP Board

BC Law Professor Sharon Beckman has been named to a new, twelve member Standing Committee on Eyewitness Identification for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC). The committee ...

March 2, 2015

Features

The Little Incubator That Could

In a tough part of Boston, an innovation center thrives on the energy of minority entrepreneurs and their law student collaborators.

By Jeri Zeder
Winter 2015

Features

Witness to an Evolution

How Professor Quinn has influenced the economic emergence of Vietnam since the 1980s.

By David Reich
Winter 2015

Foremost, In Limine

The Hallmarks of Leadership

Leadership is a predominant theme in this issue of BC Law Magazine. That’s because, in ways bold and subtle, so much of what defines Boston ...

By Vicki Sanders
Winter 2015

Behind the Columns

As Congress Fails Us

New partnership enhances BC Law’s ability to prepare students for the public policy challenges head.

By Dean Vincent Rougeau
Winter 2015

In Brief

Ever the Hit Man, “Whitey” Bulger Stuffed the Truth

Panelists decry the missed opportunities at the mobster’s trial.

By David Reich
Winter 2015