Interdisciplinary Bridges Solve Real-World Problems
A message from the Dean....
President Trump’s recent decision to declare a national emergency in order to divert public funds to const...
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Looking for Transparency in Campaign Finance
Rappaport panel steps into the quagmire of money's impact on elections....
Shining more light on “dark money”—or anonymous campaign donations upheld by the Citizens United v. Fe...
PIE Hosts Chinese Intellectual Property Delegation
Both sides saw opportunity to compare their legal systems.
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BC Law’s Program on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PIE) on Sept. 10-12 hosted a delegation of intellectu...
Another Victory for Ninth Circuit Clinic
Court restores green card for clinic client....
As part of the Boston College Ninth Circuit Appellate Program, Yara Kass-Gergi '17 and Katie Horigan '17 suc...
BC Innocence Clinic Students Help Vacate Conviction
In an important new ruling, Darrell Jones, who was convicted 30 years ago of a murder that he did not commit, has had his conviction vacated by Plymouth County Superior Court Judge...
Trying to Understand Charlottesville
Panel searches for a way forward after the violence in Virginia. ...
“The values on which constitutional democracy rest have been profoundly shaken by the events in Charlottes...
Saving Constitutional Democracy: An Interview with Vlad Perju
Around the world, populists are wreaking havoc on constitutional democracies by engaging in high-stakes games of political hardball. In a grave setback for Poland’s independent j...
BC Law Innocence Program Joins Policy Push to Help Exonerees
Wrongful Conviction Day highlights two key bills in MA Legislature: forensic...
On October 2, the Boston College Innocence Program co-hosted an event in observance of Wrongful Conviction D...
Ortiz Begins Visiting Professorship with Lecture on US Attorney’s Role
Massachusetts' former chief prosecutor to speak about key challenges, includ...
Former US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz, who is this academic year's first Jerome Lyle Rappaport Visiting Profess...
SJC Justice Hines Will Join Rappaport in Spring
Geraldine S. Hines, an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, will be the Spring 2018 Jerome Lyle Rappaport Distinguished Visiting Professor. She will teac...