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Climate Change May Revolutionize the Insurance Industry

Signature conference asks the hard questions about how the increasing threat of natural catastrophes will affect the economy of disaster relief

By David Reich
November 11, 2015

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Hearsay Reform Symposium Debates Proposed Changes

BC Law professor Mark Brodin was a featured presenter at the Symposium on Hearsay Reform, part of the annual fall meeting of the Advisory Committee ...

October 27, 2015

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Rappaport Center Brings MacArthur Genius Award Winners to Campus

Three lawyers who won MacArthur Foundation “genius” awards shared their passions with the Boston College Law community on October 8. Marie-Therese Connolly, Margaret Stock, and ...

October 19, 2015

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Estate and Gift Tax Symposium Draws Scholars To Campus

On Friday, October 9, 2015, Boston College Law School and The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Foundation co-sponsored a symposium titled, “The Centennial ...

October 13, 2015

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Albert Honored at ASCL Conference

BC Law professor Richard Albert was honored at the annual meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) in Dallas, held October 1-3, 2015, ...

October 7, 2015

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Reframing the Constitutional Convention In Madison’s Hand

Ever since their publication in 1840, four years after their author’s death, James Madison’s notes on the Constitutional Convention have been treated by historians and ...

October 1, 2015

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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

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