Tag Archives: Boston College Law School
Madison’s Hand named a “book of the year”
The Legal Theory Blog, by Georgetown Law Professor Lawrence Solum, has named Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention by BC Law Professor Mary Sarah Bilder one of its “books of the year,” calling it one of the ten most interesting books … Continue reading
Immigrant life
The Center for Human Rights and International Justice (CHRIJ) is hosting a book launch on Nov. 16 to mark the publication of two books exploring different facets of the life of the immigrant in the US and in the Boston … Continue reading
No Such Thing as a Free Gift
At a book launch Nov. 11 for Linsey McGoey’s No Such Thing as a Free Gift, BC Law School Professor Ray Madoff will engage in conversation with the author, as well as Alicia Yamin of Harvard University and Nicole Aschoff Jacobin magazine. The book … Continue reading
On the Battlefield of Merit
J. Donald Monan, S.J., University Professor of Law Daniel Coquillette is co-author (with Bruce Kimball) of On the Battlefield of Merit: Harvard Law School, The First Century (Harvard University Press, 2015), the first installment in a planned two-volume history of Harvard Law School. … Continue reading
Who owns national terrority?
Sociologist and author Saskia Sassen will present “Who owns national territory? Who owns the city?” on Oct. 15 at 5:00 p.m. in Devlin Hall, Room 101. Among her books are Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy, Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global … Continue reading
Shedding light on a seminal work
James Madison’s Notes on the 1787 Constitutional Convention have acquired nearly unquestioned authority as the account of the U.S. Constitution’s creation, relied upon by generations of historians and other scholars. In her new book, Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention (Harvard University Press, 2015), … Continue reading
Mercy
In the latest issue of Commonweal, Darald and Juliet Libby Professor of Law and Theology Cathleen Kaveny writes about what the Catholic Church can learn from civil law in her essay, “Mercy for the Remarried.”
Bilder, O’Connor honored for their work
Boston College Law School Professor Mary Bilder (pictured) and Professor Emerita Sharon Hamby O’Connor, along with Harvard Law professor Charles Donahue, Jr., have been selected by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) to receive the 2015 Joseph L. Andrews Legal … Continue reading
Wide Awake and Dreaming
Boston College Law School alumna and author Julie Flygare was diagnosed at age 24 with narcolepsy with cataplexy, a serious neurological disorder of the sleep/wake cycle that is often misunderstood and underdiagnosed. She has gone on to create Project Sleep, a non-profit … Continue reading
Boston reads
Boston.com has published a list of Boston-related recommended reading. Among the listed books are a couple by Boston College grads, The Friends of Eddie Coyle by the late George V. Higgins and Defending Jacob by William Landay.