BC Law Magazine Winter 2015 Flip Book Edition
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Winter 2015
Features
Leadership
What makes a leader? Boston College Law School does......
It forms hundreds of them year after year after year. BC Law alumni have used the lessons learned in law sch...
Writing Their Way into Law School
The eloquent admission essays of five new 1Ls: Zain Ahmad, Jennawe Hughes, J...
Grade point averages and LSAT scores, extracurricular activities and past achievements are all part of the m...
The Little Incubator That Could
In a tough part of Boston, an innovation center thrives on the energy of min...
Dean Vincent Rougeau opened the Boston Globe last summer and discovered something new: an MIT grad named...
Docket
Ever the Hit Man, “Whitey” Bulger Stuffed the Truth
Panelists decry the missed opportunities at the mobster’s trial. ...
The prosecution of James “Whitey” Bulger in 2013 may have been the first postmodern criminal trial in wh...
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Casting an amused look at how different a law student’s world was in 1968 ...
To find out how much law school has changed in the last half century, BC Law Magazine went on a research mis...
The Law in Postcards
Collection offers bemused look at the legal profession. Curated by Laurel Da...
A selection of humorous, nostalgic, and sometimes puzzling legal postcards has become a part of the law libr...
A Mind Without Borders
To Hannah Marie Farhan ’16, the whole world is home....
Student Snapshot Provenance: Farhan’s parents immigrated to Atlanta, Georgia, after the 1979 Iranian Revo...
Comparing Notes
What can we learn from another nation’s laws?...
The following are edited excerpts from a conversation between Dean Vincent Rougeau and Australian schola...
The Canny Investor
When Brian Knez sees opportunity, companies thrive....
Pocket Résumé Brian Knez ’84: CEO of Neiman Marcus and other top retailers turned private equity invest...
Where Has All the Money Gone?
Exposing systemic problems, BC Law convention explores philanthropic reform....
What are the implications when we think the law is doing one thing, but it’s really doing another? That qu...
Making International Tax Laws Just
Professor Diane Ring gives voice to emerging nations’ concerns....
Pocket Résumé Diplomas: Harvard University, AB, JD. Interests: International Taxation, Corporate Taxati...
Esquire
Law, Pluck, and Lingerie
The underwear created by Catalina Girald ’00 comes with a mission and a me...
“I grew up in a family where you could be a lawyer or a doctor—those were the two choices,” said Colom...
Historic Gift Brings Rappaport Center to BC Law
Public policy leadership is focus of renowned program....
The Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy has moved to Boston College Law School as a result of a $7.53...
More Hall Succumbs to the Wrecking Ball
Former home of Law School makes way for student housing....
No More: St. Thomas More Hall, the Commonwealth Avenue home of Boston College Law School from its dedication...
Reunion Weekend 2014
(Photo IDs are left to right) 1. Sandy Tarrant ’99, Kristy Nardone ’99, John Stephan ’99. 2. Garin Veris ’98. 3. Hon. James Cronin. 4. Dr. Robin L. Kornegay-Rougeau, Georg...
In Every Issue
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 College Law School has to do with lead...
As Congress Fails Us
New partnership enhances BC Law’s ability to prepare students for the publ...
When judged by its legislative accomplishments, the 113th Congress was one of the least productive in modern...
Correspondence
Hats Off to Clinical Programs I am writing to thank and congratulate you on the most recent edition of the magazine (Summer 2014). It was an inspiration to an alumnus like me who ...
Lessons on Preventing Rape
A law professor and father of sons speaks out....
The current spotlight on campus sexual assault has no doubt raised awareness among college students of their...