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Alumni News

Alex Peña ’18 Works in Partnership for Community

By Alyssa Hatfield ’26
March 10, 2025

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BC Innocence Program Lands Major Grant

BCIP and the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) Innocence Program received the $354,000 grant from the US Department of Justice.

December 23, 2020

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Alumni Named to Senior Positions in Biden Administration

Louisa Terrell ’95 and John Kerry ’76 have been named to senior leadership positions in President-Elect Joe Biden’s administration. Terrell has been named Director of ...

November 24, 2020

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Testify

Five BC Law professors lend their extensive expertise to major congressional committees.

October 10, 2019

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Deans Column: Just Mercy for Criminal Justice

In the end, who we are and what we do as a Jesuit, Catholic law school is rooted in human dignity.

By Dean Vincent Rougeau
September 27, 2019

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Community Mourns Loss of Michael Deland ’69

Deland led the NE branch of the Environmental Protection Agency, served as environmental advisor to President Bush, and fought to clean up Boston Harbor.

January 10, 2019

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Corporations Are People, Too (And They Should Act Like It)

Why we’re better off treating corporations as people under the law—and making them behave like citizens, according to Professor Kent Greenfield.

October 10, 2018

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On the Razor’s Edge of Autocracy

Visiting Professor Robert Cordy warns of threats to constitutional democracy.

By Vicki Sanders
September 6, 2018

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Gov. Baker Goes to Law School

Massachusetts' head of state conducts a class on public health and the opioid crisis.

By Danielle Rivard
May 8, 2018

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Yang ’85 Will Be 2018 Commencement Speaker

Debra Wong Yang ’85, Partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and the former US Attorney for the Central District of California, will give the Commencement ...

April 11, 2018