BC Law Magazine Winter 2016 Flip Book Edition
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Winter 2016
Features
The Other Side of Stardom
They’ve counseled Bobby Brown, advised Gwyneth Paltrow, handled rights for...
Bradford Auerbach ’82 Principal Amherst Partners, San Diego Auerbach’s involvement in the entertainme...
“We Are Still Here”
The San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians may be few in numbers today, but th...
If you’re hearing me speak, we’ve failed,” says Merri Lopez Keifer ’98. As chief legal counsel f...
The Tragedy of the Horizon
Can insurance save us from ourselves as we continue to think short term, pus...
In the first nine months of 2015 alone, wildfires in the western United States burned eight million acres of...
Docket
Deep Inside the Iran Nuclear Deal
A consummate negotiator describes the intricacies of getting to yes. ...
After more than five decades, the US and Cuba have started to normalize relations. A nuclear deal was reache...
A Cautionary Tale About the Notes of James Madison
Since their publication in 1840, James Madison’s notes on the framing of the Constitution have been seen as a reliable, real-time account of the 1787 Constitutional Convention. T...
Richard Albert’s Worldwide Quest
Professor makes it his mission to strengthen constitutions around the globe....
Epiphanies can take many forms. Richard Albert’s epiphany came in the form of a frog. Albert gradua...
Hashimoto Investigates Opioid Crisis
Lawyer-scientist’s research shapes national guidelines on overuse....
Pocket Résumé Diplomas: Stanford University, AB; University of California at Berkeley, MS; Harvard Un...
The View from on High
Musings about life on the big bench....
This conversation began with a discussion between Dean Vincent Rougeau and Associate Justice Elena Kagan, t...
A Journey of Discovery
Andrea Clavijo ’16 seizes opportunity at every turn....
Student Snapshot Provenance: Weston, Florida, affectionately known by locals as “Westonzuela.” Learning...
Gender Injustice
Authors argue that juvenile girls are victimized by a male-focused system....
Last fall, BC Law clinical professor Francine Sherman ’80 and Annie Balck ’05 authored Gender Injust...
A Pro-Slavery Bias Revealed
From the depths of Harvard Law’s history, Coquillette discovers things tri...
“If you want to avoid the mistakes of the past, you’d better know what the past is,” says J. Donald Mo...
Esquire
Political Insider Talks Elections
David Simas ’95 keynotes Alumni Assembly....
Bringing with him colorful anecdotes about working to get President Obama elected and sizing up the current ...
Reunion Weekend 2015
Reunion was a memorable success....
Some 570 guests took part in activities as members of the classes ending in 0 or 5 traveled between campus a...
Generations
Michael E. Mone ’67, right, and his son Michael E. Mone Jr. ’96. Generations is an ongoing series of portraits of family members who’ve attended BC Law....
The Domino Effect of a Teacher’s Generosity
$1 million and counting—the remarkable story of the power of many....
The story of the Ingrid Hillinger Fund for Public Service is the story of the BC Law community. It started a...
In Every Issue
Correspondence
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Prepped for Success in the Innovation Age
Does a day go by that the word “innovation” isn’t invoked in public discourse? In his January State of the Union address, President Obama spoke of it as one of four basic que...
We Can’t Let Fear Degrade Us
Respect for human dignity is the antidote to the banal and hateful belittlem...
As I write this column our nation has been engaged in an extraordinary political conversation, the likes of ...
It’s About Time
A gender-equal military can engender citizen leadership....
Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has determined that combat positions will be open to women beginning this...