BC Law Magazine Summer 2016 Flip Book Edition
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Summer 2016
Features
The Choice
DraftKings, Uber, and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie are among recent cl...
It seems right to start with the green beans. One summer long ago, Debra Wong Yang and her family left their...
The Two Sides of the Truth
Walt Kelly’s efforts to win a $36 million wrongful conviction settlement f...
Walt Kelly ’68 didn’t have a starring role in Making a Murderer. He wasn’t a player in the sexual assa...
There Was No Day, No Night, Nothing to Mark the Time
A prison within a prison, solitary confinement has reached epidemic proporti...
After failing a urine analysis for drugs in a Maine state prison in 2003, Joseph Jackson spent a year in sol...
Docket
Discourse that Unites Not Incites
Kaveny’s books offer a vision for a better world....
Like so many, Cathleen Kaveny thinks our current political climate is “almost hopelessly polarized.”...
New Truths about Madison’s Notes Echo Far and Wide
Revelations alter country’s understanding of the US Constitution....
Professor Mary Bilder knew that her book Madison’s Hand was an important re-examination of the notes t...
A Head for Business: An Interview with Dean Vincent Rougeau
Turning a law degree to advantage in the corporate arena....
James M. Micali ’73 spent thirty-one years at tire giant Michelin and was chairman and president of Michel...
Potential Unbound
Mousa Mosawy ’18 finds his calling....
Student Snapshot Provenance: Baghdad, Iraq. Learning: BS in Management, Accounting and Finance, University ...
Fighting Malfeasance with Pen, Not Sword
When Brown writes about corruption, even Supreme Court justices listen....
Pocket Résumé Credentials: AB, LLB, Harvard; BC Law faculty member since 1971; Robert F. Drinan, SJ, Pr...
Faculty Who Speak Volumes
Books, articles, degrees, and more: BC Law profs go where research takes the...
The academic pursuits of Boston College Law School’s faculty have led them to every corner of the glob...
The Boston of Tomorrow Today
Panelists propose novel solutions for the city of the future....
What will Boston be like in fifty years? Will there be enough housing, an adequate transportation system, ra...
Split Decision
Law partners expand with compliance training business....
Pocket Résumé Katherin Nukk-Freeman ’93 and Suzanne Cerra ’93: Founders of Nukk-Freeman & Cerra, ...
Esquire
Law Day 2016
Hundreds of alumni, faculty, and friends gathered at the Boston Harbor Hotel on May 3 for the annual Law Day celebration. This year’s sold-out event was the most successful yet. ...
Scholarship Dinner 2016
The Eleventh Annual Scholarship Dinner was held April 14 at the Taj Boston Hotel. An elegant reception and dinner brought donors and their student recipients together for a shared ...
My Resilient Career
Elizabeth Martin ’92 takes on death, art, and health care....
From prosecuting death penalty cases in Texas to a string of high-level executive posts at a major insurance...
Light the World
Alumni Community Surpasses Goal for Light the World....
Boston College Law School recently closed out its most ambitious fundraising effort ever—part of the Unive...
In Every Issue
In Defense of the Liberal Arts
In a world besotted with the new, it won’t pay to forget law’s humanitar...
To see the future of BC Law, it makes sense to begin with a major challenge that will confront Boston Colleg...
What We Sacrifice for Security
Do law enforcement powers threaten our liberties?...
It is hard to imagine crimes more devastating to the public than terrorist acts. The immediate victims, ...
Integrity: Law’s Most Potent Credential
A law school teaches you integrity,” said businessman James Micali ’73 in a recent interview with Dean Vincent Rougeau. Their conversation had turned to the value of a law degr...
Contributors
Katharine Whittemore, Writer Whittemore has written for the New York Times, Atlantic, Smithsonian, Salon.com, and more. She was the features editor at Wondertime magazine, and be...