LAW Dean’s Letter Urges Confirmation of Biden’s Historic SCOTUS Pick, Ketanji Brown Jackson
Angela Onwuachi-Willig’s letter to US Senate: “Black women are vital contributors to our nation’s democracy”
White House Honors Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Other Law School Deans for Helping to Avert Eviction Crisis
Addressing senior Biden administration officials, BU LAW dean on the toll of losing “your home, your community, your stability—all that you have known, all at once”
Why Global COVID Vaccinations Are Dangerously Lagging: Six Things to Know
As Delta variant spreads rapidly, BU-led panel explains why vaccination rollout isn’t keeping pace
LAW Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
She’s honored to be in same class as civil rights lawyer and scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw—and another of her heroes, Oprah Winfrey As a first-year law student in 1994, Angela Onwuachi-Willig felt so alienated and alone she wondered if there was a place for her in the legal world. Then she was introduced to critical race […]
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey Invokes Thurgood Marshall, Pauli Murray, Ibram Kendi in Addressing LAW Convocation
As professional advocates, law grads can work to unravel policies underlying structural inequities highlighted by the pandemic Video by BU Productions. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is known as a crusader for civil rights and social justice, and on Saturday, May 15, she called the BU School of Law Class of 2021 to action, telling […]
LAW Dean, Whose Mother Was a Child Bride in Nigeria, Shares Powerful Story of Resilience with Graduates
“As a mother myself, I can only imagine the anguish that my mother felt as she left her children behind in a war-torn nation,” Angela Onwuachi-Willig tells graduates Angela Onwuachi-Willig, dean of Boston University School of Law and Ryan Roth Gallo & Ernest J. Gallo Professor of Law, delivered these remarks at LAW’s virtual Convocation […]
“This Is My Stepping-stone.” 553 BU First-Generation Students Welcomed into Honor Society
BU Newbury Center ceremony celebrates inaugural members, their determination, contributions blazing new trails Meet six first-generation college students at Boston University and hear their stories. They were among 553 students, faculty, and staff inducted April 26 as the inaugural members of BU’s Alpha Alpha Alpha honor society for first-gen students. They didn’t grow up assuming […]
Angela Onwuachi-Willig among Five Black Women Law Deans Honored for Efforts to Bring Antiracist Reform to Legal Education
Together, they launched a project to engage law schools in fight for racial justice Angela Onwuachi-Willig, BU School of Law dean and professor of law, one of the country’s leading scholars of race and the law, is one of five Black women law deans to receive the Association of American Law Schools’ inaugural Impact Award. […]
Meet the Newly Promoted Charles River Campus Professors
Faculty from CAS, CFA, ENG, LAW, Pardee, Questrom, Sargent, SSW, STH, Wheelock The recently promoted BU faculty on the Charles River Campus “are having demonstrable impact in their disciplines and excelling as teachers in our classrooms and laboratories,” says Jean Morrison, University provost. Photo by Cydney Scott. Nearly three dozen faculty on the BU Charles […]
Close Up: Humanitarianism at the Border
The Humanitarian Crisis at the Border and Beyond, a panel discussion hosted by the School of Law and moderated by the Boston Globe’s Maria Cramer, was held April 18. Panelists were Nicole Ramos, director of Al Otro Lado Border Rights Project (from left), Congressman Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.), and Sarah Sherman Stokes, associate director of […]