AALL Annual Meeting: Beyond Scholarship: Innovative Uses for Institutional Repositories
Repositories are well-established containers for faculty and student scholarship, but there is so much more they can do. During this session, presenters will discuss their unique repository collections, how the ideas were developed, the unexpected stumbling blocks they encountered along the way, and how they worked with stakeholders to develop and market the collections. We […]
NELLCO Symposium: Collaborating Across Departments: Utilizing KanbanFlow and Other Tools to Manage Cross-Departmental Projects
AALL Annual Meeting: Collection Development and Acquiring with a Conscience
AALL Annual Meeting: The Crossroads of Licensing and Copyright
Copyright’s First Sale doctrine is fundamental to how libraries operate because it allows libraries to lend materials they purchase to their patrons. How has the dramatic shift away from purchasing print materials and toward expansive electronic licensing agreements affected libraries’ use of this doctrine, and their ability to perform essential services? What does copyright law […]
AALL Annual Meeting: Cultural Humility: Putting Action After Words
Cultural humility, coined in 1998 by healthcare professionals Melanie Tervalon and Jann Murray-Garcia, gives us a tool for a greater understanding of cultures that are different from our own, helping us more fully recognize and appreciate each other’s unique cultural experiences, values, and beliefs while acknowledging our own, especially within historical contexts and failures of […]
AALL Annual Meeting: Whose Story Is Missing? How Law Libraries Can Adapt Collection Development Policies for DEI
How do we ensure that our collecting practices are inclusive and include diverse perspectives? Creating a framework to apply a DEI lens to collection development allows us to begin answering this question. In this program, panelists will discuss the value of adding DEI to collection development and explore how DEI principles are applied in collection […]
BU Law Tax Policy Forum with Professor Shu-Yi Oei
Monday, March 30, 2026 Boston University School of Law Alumni Board Room (12th Floor) Join us for a tax policy conversation with Professor Shu-Yi Oei (Duke), discussing her current paper on “The Origination Clause and the President’s Tariffs.” Boston University School of Law has long been home to some of the most influential voices in […]
Film Screening of “Shared Legacies: The African American – Jewish Civil Rights Alliance”
Monday, March 23rd 4:30 – 6:30pm Tsai Performance Center 685 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA Boston University School of Law is thrilled to announce the screening of “Shared Legacies: The African American – Jewish Civil Rights Alliance,” followed by a fireside chat on Monday, March 23rd, at the Tsai Performance Center. Directed by Dr. Shari Rogers […]
Menopause Deserves More Than a “Moment”: Legal and Medical Perspectives
Wednesday, March 18th 2026 12:45pm – 2:00pm Boston University School of Law 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215 Classroom 528 In recent years, reproductive justice advocates have called—with some success—for “menstrual equity.” They have targeted stigma and shame around menstruation and advocated changes in law, policy, and health care to end “period poverty” and […]
The Crisis of Crisis Pregnancy Centers: A Convening of Practitioners and Scholars on the Regulation of CPCs
Boston University School of Law Friday, April 10, 2026 Join us for a day of interdisciplinary conversations about one of the most consequential—and least understood—forces shaping reproductive health care today. Crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) operate facilities with the primary aim of discouraging abortion while presenting themselves as neutral health care providers. Operating across the US […]