School of Law Events Calendar

Alumni Events (September 29 through November 19)

Wednesday, October 1

• 4:20 PM Clark Legal History Series presentation: "The Personnel Power" by Cornell Professor of Law Josh Chafetz
• 5:00 PM Boston Young Alumni Fall Kick-Off

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

• 5:00 PM Los Angeles BU Law Alumni Reception with Dean Maureen A. O'Rourke

Tuesday, October 7

• 5:00 PM Young Alumni Distinguished Dinner with Professor Stacey Dogan

Wednesday, October 8

• 5:00 PM BU Law San Francisco Alumni Reception with Dean Maureen A. O'Rourke

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
• 5:30 PM Boston Young Alumni Council Open Meeting and Networking Reception

Thursday, October 16

• 12:00 PM Pike Lecture featuring Michael Rezendes of The Boston Globe

Monday, October 20

• 5:00 PM Young Alumni Distinguished Dinner with William H. Groner (LAW '80)

Tuesday, October 21

• 12:00 PM BU Law Atlanta Alumni Luncheon
• 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

Tuesday, October 28

• 5:30 PM New York Young Alumni Council Open Meeting and Networking Reception

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

• 4:00 PM Shapiro Lecture by John Barylick: "Killer Show: Litigation Strategies in the Aftermath of America’s Deadliest Rock Concert"

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

Thursday, November 13

• 5:00 PM BU Law Boston Young Alumni Happy Hour

Friday, November 14

• 9:00 AM The Civil Rights Act of 1964 at Fifty: Past, Present, and Future
• 1:30 PM Transactional LawMeet
• 5:30 PM BU Law Young Alumni Distinguished Dinner with Randy Shapiro (JD '89)

Saturday, November 15

• 9:00 AM The Civil Rights Act of 1964 at Fifty: Past, Present, and Future

Wednesday, November 19

• 1:00 PM Business and IP Careers Panel
• 4:20 PM Clark Legal History Series: "Presumption of Innocence/Presumption Against Punishment: Two Western Modes of Justice" by Yale Law Prof. James Whitman