School of Law Events Calendar

LLM Student Events (September 30 through November 12)

Wednesday, October 1

• 4:20 PM Clark Legal History Series presentation: "The Personnel Power" by Cornell Professor of Law Josh Chafetz

Thursday, October 2

• 12:45 PM Annual Distinguished Lecture: "The Interlocking Gears of Rights and Structure: Why the Critics Are Wrong About U.S. v. Windsor" by Yale Professor of Law Heather Gerken

Monday, October 6

• 12:45 PM U.S. Bar Exam Preparation Series: Pro Bono Information Session

Thursday, October 9

• 1:00 PM Faculty Workshop: Presentation by BU Law Professor Nancy Moore, "Financial Rewards for Whistleblowing Lawyers"
• Kids in Crisis in Boston and at the Border: Immigrant Rights at Risk?

Wednesday, October 15

• 4:20 PM "Revulsions of Capital: The Politics of Law and Slavery in the Age of the Turner Rebellion" by UC-Berkeley Law Professor Chris Tomlins

Thursday, October 16

• 12:00 PM Pike Lecture featuring Michael Rezendes of The Boston Globe
• 12:45 PM Affordable Care Act Subsidy Debate featuring BU Law Professor Abby Moncrieff and Case Western Law's Jonathan Adler
• 1:00 PM Faculty Workshop: Presentation by BU Law Professor Jim Fleming, "Fidelity to Our Living Constitution"

Monday, October 20

• 2:30 PM IP Speaker Series: Presentation by Annett Kur, "From Minimum Standards to Maximum Rules"

Tuesday, October 21

• 2:45 PM Financial Services Compliance Keynote Address: Martin Pfinsgraff, OCC Senior Deputy Comptroller for Large Banks
• 3:30 PM Chief Compliance Officers Industry Panel Discussion

Thursday, October 23

• 12:45 PM U.S. Bar Exam Preparation Series: Massachusetts Bar Exam Info Session for Foreign-Trained Lawyers
• 1:00 PM Faculty Workshop: Presentation by BU Law Professor David Webber, "Shareholder Litigation without Class Actions"
• 4:30 PM Student/Faculty Mixer

Wednesday, October 29

• 4:20 PM Defining Imperial Spaces: How South America Became a Contested Territory

Thursday, October 30

• 12:00 PM Annual Boston University Law Review Book Symposium on War Powers and the Constitution

Monday, November 3

• 2:30 PM IP Speaker Series: Presentation by Leah Grinvald, "Policing the Cease-and-Desist Letter"
• 4:00 PM Shapiro Lecture by John Barylick: "Killer Show: Litigation Strategies in the Aftermath of America’s Deadliest Rock Concert"

Thursday, November 6

• 1:00 PM Faculty Workshop: Presentation by Cathie Jo Martin, BU Dept. of Political Science, Distinguished Interdisciplinary Visitor
• Turbulence in College Sports: The O'Bannon Case, NCAA Governance Changes, and Other Recent Developments

Monday, November 10

• 11:00 AM IP Speaker Series: Presentation by Public Knowledge Sr. VP Harold Feld, "Aereo and the Copyright-Media Interface"
• 12:45 PM International Education Week: “TED Talk Discussion: Legal Reform in the U.S. and Foreign Jurisdictions”
• 1:00 PM BU Law Legacy Series: "Madame Decuir and the Origins of Equal but Separate" by Professor Jack Beermann

Wednesday, November 12

• 4:20 PM Clark Legal History Series: "Protection, the Imperial Constitution, and the British Global Order, 1790-1850" by NYU Prof. of History Lauren Benton