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Dean’s Column: How to Avoid the Next 2008

This fall, law school deans face two data points that—when combined—indicate trouble ahead. The most recent NALP placement statistics show a slight increase in the ...

November 1, 2018

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Amid Rising Applications, A New Strategy for Law School Budgets

A message from Vincent D. Rougeau, Dean, Boston College Law School.

February 23, 2018

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Dean’s Column: DACA and Our Campus Community

In a recent Sunday edition of the New York Times, op-ed columnist Frank Bruni reminded us that of the 965 grants given out by the ...

October 10, 2017

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Justice Hines to Class of 2017: “Speak the Truth”

Hines referenced lawyers fighting against racism and segregation in the deeply divided south, as well as those who fought against the recent immigration ban, in ...

May 26, 2017

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Yen to Receive Chris Kando Iijima Teacher and Mentor Award

BC Law Professor Alfred C. Yen will receive the 2016-2017 Professor Chris Kando Iijima Teacher and Mentor Award. Established by the Conference of Asian Pacific ...

May 5, 2017

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‘I Am a Leader, and I Sweat the Details’

A possible future president, Martin O'Malley challenges, amuses as a visiting lecturer.

By Ryan Duffy
May 5, 2017

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Henriette’s Story: The Power of Law

At our student orientation last August, I told the incoming 1L class about a recent book I had read by Henriette Ngenga, the mother of ...

By Dean Vincent Rougeau
March 24, 2017

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‘Scholar, Teacher, Leader, Friend’ Retiring After 36 Years at BC Law

James Rogers, who joined BC Law as a professor in 1980 and served as interim dean of the Law School during a long and distinguished ...

December 20, 2016

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Navy Secretary Keeps His Eye on the Horizon

In inaugural Dean's Distinguished Lecture, Ray Mabus urges aspiring lawyers to "plant a thousand trees"

September 26, 2016

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Dean Inaugurates Distintinguished Lecture Series with Secretary of Navy Mabus

United States Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus (above with President Obama), a lawyer, one-time governor, and former Saudi ambassador, will present the inaugural Dean’s Distinguished ...

September 13, 2016