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Online Exclusives

Coquillette’s The Battlefield of Merit Stirs Controversy

“This book will be controversial,” says Professor Daniel Coquillette. He’s referring to The Battlefield of Merit, the first installment in a planned two-volume history of ...

October 1, 2015

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Madison’s Revisions: An Op Ed

September 17, 2015—Constitution Day—marks the 228th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. It is a non-anniversary. An appropriate moment to emphasize that James ...

September 29, 2015

Online Exclusives

Gender Injustice Revealed in Groundbreaking Report on Juvenile Justice System

According to BC Law clinical professor Francine Sherman ’80, author of a shocking new report, Gender Injustice, girls are now making up a larger share of the juvenile ...

September 25, 2015

Online Exclusives

BC Law Expands Summer Institute: Foundations of US Law

Many international law students are looking for a summer program that will introduce them to the US legal system. Boston College Law School’s Summer Institute: ...

August 24, 2015

Online Exclusives

Lawyers for Affordable Justice to Launch in 2016

The law schools at Boston College, Boston University and Northeastern University will launch Lawyers for Affordable Justice (LAJ) — a “lawyer incubator” program —in January ...

July 15, 2015

Online Exclusives

Challenges Facing Central American Migrants Outlined in New Report

Boston College Law School, in partnership with 12 other U.S.-based Jesuit law schools and the Jesuit Refugee Service/USA (JRS/USA), has announced the release of “A ...

June 16, 2015

Light the World

New Chairs Support Business Law Scholarship

McCoy and Shnitser are celebrated as inaugural Liberty Mutual and Donohue professors.

Summer 2015

In Brief

Around the Academy

Elisabeth J. Medvedow: BC Law’s Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy in May welcomed Medvedow as its new executive director. She came to the ...

Summer 2015

Global Engagement

Asking the Deeper Questions

Professor Kohler’s exploration of philosophy and German labor law provides rare insight into fundamental differences in how Americans and Europeans think.

By Jeri Zeder
Summer 2015

Global Engagement

Globe-Trotting

Collaborating Across the Pond: While a student in the London Program last semester, Rita Muse ’15 interned at Justice, where she was tasked with creating ...

Summer 2015