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McCoy Testifies as Expert Panelist at Fed Regulatory Relief Outreach Meeting

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and the ensuing recession, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act to make sure easy money and loose credit ...

May 5, 2015

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Baltimore State’s Attorney Mosby ’05 Announces Criminal Charges in Gray Death

Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby has announced probable cause for criminal charges to be filed in the death of Freddie Gray. Gray’s death while in ...

May 1, 2015

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2015 Rappaport Fellows Announced

The Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy at Boston College Law School has announced the selection of its 2015 Fellows. “This is a really exciting ...

April 16, 2015

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White House Key Advisor Simas ’95 Addresses Graduates

Addressing the Boston College Law School class of 2015, David Simas, Law ’95, told the graduates that they should always remember why they chose to ...

April 15, 2015

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Scholar Maung Zarni Defines Genocide in HHRP Lecture

The word genocide calls to mind events like the Jewish and Armenian holocausts, but according to Maung Zarni, a Burmese scholar affiliated with Harvard and ...

By David Reich
April 14, 2015

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Rappaport Center Hires New Executive Director

The Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy at Boston College Law School is pleased to announce the hiring of a new executive director. Elisabeth J. ...

April 8, 2015

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Ninth Circuit Appellate Clinic Students Make Their Arguments in Court

Watch a video of Schwartz and Sanders in court Third-year students Shannon Johnson, Alejandra Salinas, Jeremy Sanders, and Kelly Schwartz just stood before the Ninth Circuit Court of ...

April 7, 2015

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Cassidy Helps Shape New SJC Rules of Professional Conduct

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) has released its final decisions on the proposed changes to the state’s rules of professional conduct. As a member ...

April 2, 2015

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Partnership Focuses on Improving Resources for Immigrants

Boston College is part of a consortium of thirteen Jesuit law schools that have partnered with the nonprofit Jesuit Refugee Service/USA in an effort to ...

April 1, 2015

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Beckman Appointed to SJC Committee on Eyewitness ID, NEIP Board

BC Law Professor Sharon Beckman has been named to a new, twelve member Standing Committee on Eyewitness Identification for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC). The committee ...

March 2, 2015