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Tributes

LAW Alum Steven M. Wise, Who Fought for Animal Rights, Dies

August 7, 2024

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WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

Five Trailblazing Alums to Celebrate during Women’s History Month

March 13, 2024

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Politics

Should Massachusetts Abolish Religious Exemptions for School Vaccinations?

August 29, 2023

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Politics

How the AR-15 Divided a Nation

August 9, 2023

SOUTH YARMOUTH, MA - MARCH 5: Sgt. Robert Bolduc, right, leads away Antone C. Costa, 24, of Provincetown, MA after his arrest in Boston and charges of the murders of two Rhode Island women at the Yarmouth Barracks, Massachusetts State Police Headquarters in South Yarmouth, MA on March 5, 1969. Three bodies of young women were discovered on Cape Cod in Truro's woods. Costa was arrested in a Marlboro St. apartment in Boston's Back Bay and arraigned the following day in Provincetown. (Photo by Bill Brett/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Books

Casey Sherman’s New Crime Thriller Revisits Cape Cod Serial Killer

July 19, 2022

Demonstrators with Center for Popular Democracy and other organizations perform a mass civil disobedience in support of abortion access by sitting and blocking an intersection near the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on June 30, 2022. (Photo by Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto via AP)

Reproductive Rights

The Battle for Reproductive Rights

July 1, 2022

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Nonprofit Aiding Girls

Opening Doors: Linda Calhoun (COM’80)

December 14, 2021

Photo of Ryan Roth Gallo (LAW’99), pictured (left) at the 2018 BU Commencement in full regalia. On the right, Carmen Yulín Cruz Soto (CAS’84) and President Brown are seen. All of them clap, and rows of commencement go-ers in regalia are seen behind them.

University Appointments

Trustee and Alum Endows New Antiracism Professorship at the School of Law

February 3, 2021

Photo of Robert Burdick (LAW’72), a School of Law clinical professor who directed the Civil Litigation & Justice Program for more than 40 years, standing in a suit, looking off into the middle distance. Bright blue skies are seen in a window behind him.

Tributes

A Quiet Legal Giant: LAW’s Robert Burdick

November 19, 2020

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Books

COM Alum Casey Sherman’s Book Has New Details on Whitey Bulger

July 27, 2020

Equal Rights Amendment supporters hold signs with "VA Ratify ERA" outside the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond.

Government & Law

Fighting for Equal Rights

February 18, 2020

Senior advisor at the US Department of State, Jane Sigmon poses for a photo on a set of stairs

Public Health

Hidden in Plain Sight

January 17, 2020

John Ward, founder of GLAD (Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders), poses for a photo

Law

A Career Spent Fighting for the Rights of LGBTQ+ Individuals

December 4, 2019

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Higher Education

“Beyond My Mother’s Dreams”

October 22, 2019

Law

Making the One L Path (a Little) Easier

October 21, 2019

La Tia Martin

Government & Law

Helping Young Women from Public Schools Get Interested in the Law

September 30, 2019

Science & Technology

The Transformers

September 20, 2019

Jonathan Allen (LAW’19) campaigns at a community fair at a public housing complex in Brighton

Politics

He’s Black, Gay, a Former Preacher, a BU Alum, and He’s Running for Boston City Council

September 17, 2019

Spotlight lawyer Mitchell Garabedian working in his Boston office

Business & Economics

Mitchell Garabedian vs. the Catholic Church

November 13, 2017

Steven Wise

Business & Economics

Nonhuman Rights

October 26, 2017

Nonhuman Rights