BC Law Magazine Summer 2018 Flip Book Edition
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Summer 2018
Features
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Mailbox
A strange Hawaii incident involving a minor theft has grown into a scandal t...
Federal defender Alexander Silvert could tell his client, Gerard Puana, was anxious the moment he walked int...
Their Hearts Are In It
Public Service Scholars fan out and change the world....
When Stephanie Johnson graduates in 2019, she will mark the twenty-year anniversary of BC Law’s Public Ser...
The Creative Genius of David Fialkow
David Fialkow ’85 was part of a creative team that outsmarted the KGB, imp...
Little gets in Vladimir Putin’s way, and almost nothing that does stays there. To raise his ...
Docket
Putting Prophetic Rhetoric in Its Place
Kaveny offers a prescription for the ravaging forces of public discourse....
Pocket Résumé Degrees: JD (1990) and PhD (in ethics, 1991), Yale. Credentials: Named the Cary and Ann ...
Women in the Law
Can the race for equality be won?...
For several decades women have been entering and graduating from law school in numbers almost ...
New Troubles for Free Speech
First Amendment meets challenges on campuses....
One of the nation’s foremost authorities on the First Amendment, Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, pres...
LAB to Celebrate Its Gold Anniversary
BC Law’s Legal Assistance Bureau (LAB) turns fifty this year and big plans...
Founded in 1968, LAB is the Law School’s first and oldest clinical program. It was born of 1960s idealism ...
A Giant Leap for Public Service
New program rethinks how BC Law shapes leaders of tomorrow. ...
Public service has always been a bedrock of a BC Law education. Building on that history, the Law School thi...
Traffickers Suffer Legal Setback
John Montgomery’s efforts result in new law.
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The Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) was signed by President Trump on April 11 after passage by larg...
Wow and Know How
Rosemary and Rick McCready turn real estate to personal gold....
Pocket Résumés Rick McCready ’84: President, The Davis Companies. Omni-Present: His team arranged the...
There’s a Doctor in the House
After three decades in medicine, Leslie Shaff ’18 gets a law degree....
Student Snapshot Provenance: Dorchester, Mass. Degrees: BA, Brandeis University, 1966; Masters in Art of T...
Esquire
Law Day 2018
Law Day 2018 was observed by BC Law on May 2 at the Ritz-Carlton in Boston. It was a time to honor notable alumni and leaders and to contemplate the importance of diversity in the ...
A Litigator’s Act
Generosity is infectious. Joan Lukey ’74 proves it....
“I love what I do,” says Joan Lukey ’74, practice group leader for complex trial and appellate litigat...
A Child of Hardship Gets a Break
For Kristin Beale, education has meant everything....
I grew up in a very low-income household, where my single mother worked fifteen-hour night shifts six, often...
2017-2018 Giving Report
A heartfelt thank you to all the alumni and friends of Boston College Law School for your generous support. The Report on Giving recognizes all donors who made a gift to Boston...
In Every Issue
Hope for Good Times Still to Come
The young are at it again. Thank goodness. Last issue, this column focused on the admission essays of five members from the class of 2020. Their words, their compassion, and their ...
For the Record
Bank Notes Great story on the bank that was “small enough to jail” (“Scapegoats,” Winter 2018). I knew about Abacus bank but didn’t know the daughters were BC Law grad...
Guns in Risky Waters
Businesses can sink if consumers disinvest....
We were on break between hours of my Supreme Court seminar when my phone buzzed with an alert....
Reflections on Fifty Years
Where will the young take us from here?...
Fifty years ago, our nation was on the verge of being torn apart by assassinations, riots, and demonstration...