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Professor Cassidy Foresaw Need for DOJ Policy Change

Ethics expert warned of injustices with so-called ineffective counsel waivers

By Jeri Zeder
October 21, 2014

Online Exclusives

Things I Learned from a Very Small Fish

Boston College Law Professor Zygmunt Plater presented a TEDx Talk on his new book, THE SNAIL DARTER & THE DAM: How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Little Fish ...

October 3, 2014

Online Exclusives

Transforming Modern Philanthropy

BC law professor Ray Madoff brought leading experts from across the country together to tackle problems in current giving structures. The Convention was the first ...

By Jeri Zeder
September 26, 2014

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BC Law Professors Digitally Tap Trove of Colonial-era Appeals

Two Boston College Law School professors have brought an important piece of legal history into the modern age by opening a digital window on colonial-era ...

September 26, 2014

Online Exclusives

International Students Gain Insights Into US Law

BC Law summer program is now in its fifth year.

August 1, 2014

Features

‘I’ve Already Forgiven You’

Thanks to the Innocence Project, exonerations are becoming commonplace, but there is nothing at all common about the relationship between wrongly convicted Dennis Maher and ...

By Jeri Zeder
Summer 2014

Online Exclusives

What the Civil Rights Act Says About America

The need for social justice is as imperative today as it was 50 years ago.

August 1, 2014

Features

May It Please the Court

In a real federal appeals court, in real time, four students endure judges’ withering questions but introduce novel concepts and argue masterfully on behalf of ...

By Jeri Zeder
Summer 2014

Behind the Columns

It Takes Courage

The Civil Rights movement pushes aside current boorishness to remind us of society’s better self.

By Dean Vincent Rougeau
Summer 2014

Features

Cell Shocked

When kids do time, nobody wins. With justice for girls as her cause and educating BC Law students as her mission, Professor Francine Sherman ’80 ...

By David Reich
Summer 2014