BC Law Magazine Winter 2018 Flip Book Edition
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Winter 2018
Features
Scapegoats
Just what lay behind the New York DA’s aggressive targeting of a small Chi...
Fifteen Chinese-Americans were handcuffed, chained together, and paraded by law enforcement down the narrow ...
The Freedom Fighter
Raised in the crucible of Communist Romania, scholar Vlad Perju mounts an in...
December 22, 1989, was a big day for eleven-year-old Vlad Perju. His family had been waiting for two decades...
Getting In
Five 1Ls share the essays that earned them entrance into law school....
In a fast-paced world in which narratives seem to recede behind the bullying force of nonstop news, social m...
Docket
Defending Regulations
Senator Edward Markey ’72 vows to go down fighting to help consumers....
US Senator Edward Markey ’72 invoked the spirit of BC Law during a campus speech in October, part of the...
Forensic Evidence Goes Under the Judicial Microscope
Federal committee convenes to establish standards for expert testimony....
Even as Boston College Law School prepared to host a major forum to discuss forensics and expert testimony, ...
Asia Calling
Baltimore’s Taylor Green ’18 turns her gaze East....
Student Snapshot Provenance: Born in Baltimore, Maryland; moved to the suburbs as a child. Learning: BA in ...
The Making of a Supreme Court Litigator
A generalist learns how to talk the talk....
Paul M. Smith has argued 19 US Supreme Court cases, most notably the landmark case Lawrence v. Texas, wh...
Wrongful Conviction
Saving the innocent, one trying exoneration at a time....
Since its founding in 2007, the Boston College Innocence Program at the Law School has been an active pl...
Saying Yes to Reins on Net Neutrality
Professor Lyons argues zero-rated plans are good for consumers....
Pocket Résumé Degrees: AB and JD, both magna cum laude, Harvard University. Private Practice: Munger To...
BC Law Launches New Initiatives
Business and tax law programs impact learning....
Academic undertakings designed to enhance collaborations and the Law School’s business offerings got i...
The Grass Is Always Greener
If there’s one changeless thing about Xiomara Corral’s career, it’s th...
Pocket Résumé Xiomara Corral ’87: Senior Attorney, BNY Mellon. Advanced Degree: She holds an LLM in ban...
Esquire
Common Threads
Endowed professorships speak to the special relationships that make up the f...
BC Law’s endowed chair holders, and the donors who established professorships at BC Law, intertwine across...
2016-2017 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 Bos...
Reunion Weekend 2017
The weekend of November 3-4 was a heady outpouring of campus tours, lectures, panel discussions, “bar reviews,” receptions and—biggest of all—class dinners at the Fairmont ...
One Good Deed Deserves Another
Roger Bougie ’62 got his start in law because others helped. Now it’s hi...
Roger Bougie ’62 can trace his career success back to one day in the summer of 1959. He and his wife, Barb...
In Every Issue
It’s Time Unicorns Grew Up
For start-ups, maturity is spelled ‘IPO.’...
Like modern-day millennials, our fastest growing tech companies have decided to delay adulthood. Unlike earl...
A Dark Road to Justice
Members of an immigrant community keep faith in the rule of law....
People are often surprised to learn that my work in law practice was primarily in the area of financial serv...
Student Essays Offer Better Tomorrows
This is a time when words are being twisted into all sorts of horrible uses—political propaganda, “fake” news, racist screeds…the list goes on. Not that such literary and v...
Contributors
Jeri Zeder, Writer Zeder, JD, has been contributing to BC Law Magazine since 1998. Her articles include the story of an alumnus who won the release of Guantánamo prisoners, a com...