“Police Policing Police”
The Kleh Lecture featuring Zachary D. Kaufman Police Policing Police Professor Zachary D. Kaufman, the William & Patricia Kleh Visiting Professor in International Law at Boston University School of Law, will deliver this year’s Kleh Lecture in International Law. Police killings of George Floyd and at least 2,218 other Black Americans since 2015 have amplified […]
“Privacy Nicks: How the Law Normalizes Surveillance”
Woodrow Hartzog will give his talk, “Privacy Nicks: How the Law Normalizes Surveillance” at the Yale Information Society Project Law & Technology Speaker Series. The talk will be live streamed beginning at 12:30 pm on February 7, 2023, and is co-hosted by the Yale Journal of Law & Technology.
NuDred, Patents, and Justice: Increasing Equity in IP Practice
We are looking forward to welcoming Bruce Boyd and Brigitte Gopou, inventors of the NuDred Hair Sponge, for an in-depth discussion about their patent journey. Please join for a conversation about making legal services more inclusive, how attorneys can better support start-up inventors, and how the legal community can better center inventor voices. We will […]
“Race-Disability Intersectionality as a Health Equity Imperative”
Black people and people with disabilities in the United States are distinctively disadvantaged in their encounters with the health care system. These groups also share harsh histories of medical experimentation, eugenic sterilizations, and health care discrimination. Increasingly discussions of health equity call for intersectional approaches to understanding and addressing health disparities and other forms of […]
EU and US Border Regimes: Historical Perspectives and Current Policies
Susan M. Akram will speak at the “EU and US Border Regimes: Historical Perspectives and Current Policies” seminar on Thursday, February 2, 2023. This event will be held in-person at the BU Center for Forced Displacement, and virtually via zoom. This is the first Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar in a series organized by Center on […]
Forum on the future of the Federal Home Loan Bank system
Cornelius K. Hurley will moderate the fireside chat with FHFA Director during the “Forum on the future of the Federal Home Loan Bank system” on February 10th, 2023. The Brookings Institution and Boston University School of Law will co-sponsor the forum to explore the current state and future prospects of the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) […]
The Anti-Trafficking Cause: The Evolution (and Limitations) of Legal Responses to Trafficking
Julie Dahlstrom will be the keynote speaker at “The Anti-Trafficking Cause: The Evolution (and Limitations) of Legal Responses to Trafficking.” The symposium, titled, “Where we are now and Where We Need to Go: The Status of Gender Equality Since the Creation of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW),” […]
Inaugural Professor Robert Volk Lecture Series
Join us for the Inaugural Professor Robert Volk Lecture Series, featuring speaker Jeena Cho, author of The Anxious Lawyer. Jeena Cho is a Korean-American immigrant and a first-generation lawyer. She’s the co-author of the best-selling book, The Anxious Lawyer, An 8-Week Guide to a Joyful and Satisfying Law Practice Through Mindfulness and Meditation (ABA). She […]
We Robot 2023
We Robot 2023 will be in Boston, MA, jointly hosted by the Boston University School of Law and the MIT Media Lab. Conference will be held in Room 103. Registration for the conference is now closed. Reminder – August 21: Hotel Commonwealth Room Block Closes. Please reserve your room before the block closes! We Robot is […]
International perspectives on apartheid and decolonization in Palestine
Susan M. Akram will speak at the International perspectives on apartheid and decolonization in Palestine conference on Saturday, February 4 from 09:30 to 17:30 GMT (04:30am to 5:30pm EST). The conference is put on by The Muslim Times, and is being held in Westminster, United Kingdom. The Palestinian quest for freedom and independence is arguably […]