
Greenfield Takes Aim at Delaware
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, a policy publication of renown in Washington, DC, selected Professor Kent Gre...
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, a policy publication of renown in Washington, DC, selected Professor Kent Gre...
After more than five decades, the US and Cuba have started to normalize relations. A nuclear deal was reache...
McCray Pettway ’99 is settling into the Seattle scene, raving about the local restaurants, and trying to find a time to visit Mount Rainier. Which is not to say that she isn’t ...
Pocket Résumé Jared Huffman ’90: US Representative (D-Calif.) since 2013; served six years in Californi...
Jennifer Borggaard ’96 Career: Based in Prides Crossing, she is senior vice president of Affiliated Manag...
Professor James Repetti ’80 welcomed tax scholars from ten law schools and the US Treasury Department to BC Law October 9 in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Estate an...
Globalization has not been kind to migrants, contrary to what many observers thought at the turn of the 21st...
A panel discussion among some of Massachusetts’ most politically astute women was the official kickoff eve...
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...
Sharon Post: Chief Judge Post and two colleagues from the Federal Circuit of Appeals in Washington, DC, held a rare special session at BC Law in October, hearing oral arguments...
Another Migrant Disgrace: A resettlement crisis in the Caribbean has been largely eclipsed by the migration of refugees in the Middle East, but it is no less cruel for the people b...
Epiphanies can take many forms. Richard Albert’s epiphany came in the form of a frog. Albert gradua...
Pocket Résumé Diplomas: Stanford University, AB; University of California at Berkeley, MS; Harvard Un...
This conversation began with a discussion between Dean Vincent Rougeau and Associate Justice Elena Kagan, t...
Student Snapshot Provenance: Weston, Florida, affectionately known by locals as “Westonzuela.” Learning...
Last fall, BC Law clinical professor Francine Sherman ’80 and Annie Balck ’05 authored Gender Injust...
The Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy last fall inaugurated an ambitious series of events in its first full season as part of BC Law School. The Distinguished Public Policy Series included: The Affordable Care Act after King v. Burwell” with Professors Dean Hashimoto, Pat McCoy, and Mary Ann Chirba. “Envisioning a Career in Public Service” with former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger and Profes...
Concerned that current philanthropic giving structures are not living up to expectations and are in need of reform, Professor Ray Madoff initiated a series of conversations that has led to the formation of a national think tank, the Forum on Philanthropy and the Public Good. Its inaugural event took place last October at the University Club in Washington, DC, where ...
Circuit Successes: On the heels of two stunning victories by BC Law students in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last summer came similar results in December in two cases in the First Circuit. Professor Mary Holper and former students in the Immigration Clinic won for their client, who is facing deportation, a remand to the Board of Immigration Appeals for reconsideration of her case. Then, in United States v. Castro-Vazquez, argued b...
Professor Daniel Kanstroom, in his ongoing efforts to raise public consciousness of US deportation laws, has co-authored The New Deportation Delirium: Interdisciplinary Responses (NYU Press, 2015) with Brinton Lykes of BC’s Lynch School of Education. The writers, both associate directors of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice, were recognized at a book launch in November. Professor Mark Brodin, in his NYU Revi...
Full Circle: Professor Joan Blum last summer conducted a two-day training program in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on drafting indictments. She did so on behalf of the US Department of Justice and as part of her ongoing commitment to improving best practices of the region’s judiciary. Blum followed that with “Enriching LRW Faculty Experience Through Global Engagement,” a talk informed by her teaching abroad, presented at the New E...
“If you want to avoid the mistakes of the past, you’d better know what the past is,” says J. Donald Mo...