Fall 2025 Law Review Symposium | The University and Democracy
Co-Sponsored by Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education, AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, and Critical Legal Collective. Universities are meant to be guardians of democracy and bulwarks against authoritarianism. Yet many of our most powerful universities have enabled the Trump administration’s open effort to exert “existential terror” on our […]
Poetry Reading with Sandra Yannone and Anne Tweedy
Join us for a poetry reading during National Poetry Month with award-winning poets Sandra Yannone, author of The Glass Studio, and Ann Tweedy, author of The Body’s Alphabet. Sandra and Ann will read from their books, discuss why poetry matters in LGBTQ+ and other communities in 2025, and entertain audience questions. Book signing to follow.
Book Talk: Health Law as Private Law
Please join us to celebrate the launch of Health Law as Private Law: Pathology or Pathway, published by Cambridge University Press. Might private law be as powerful a tool as government regulation in solving problems in health care and public health? This new edited volume, which grew from a 2023 conference at the Petrie-Flom Center for […]
Just Taxation Workshop 2025
Boston University School of Law, Redstone Room 10th Floor April 15th, 2025 12:30 – 1:30pm Lunch 1:30 -2:30pm Presentation Please join us on April 15th for a presentation from Dr. Lyla Latif from the University of Nairobi, who will be presenting “A Critical Discussion on Technology, AI, and Digitalisation in Reconstructing Fiscal Institutions Beyond Colonial […]
Consumer Agents with Professor Rory Van Loo (BKC/AISST AI Governance Speaker Series)
The technology has long existed for automated tools that would filter out toxic social media content or a virtual shopping assistant that would find and even purchase the best deals online without having to go to many different websites and product pages. Yet incumbent businesses have used lawsuits and data control to stifle such digital […]
A Panel Celebrating the Publication of “The Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19”
Boston University School of Law 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Barristers Hall The Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19, edited by BU Law faculty members Linda C. McClain and Aziza Ahmed, is a comprehensive research guide for researchers and students who seek to study and evaluate the complex relationship between gender and COVID-19. This interdisciplinary and intersectional […]
The Uses and Misuses of History: The Roberts Court and Its Constitutional Revolution
Thursday, March 20th 4:20 – 6:00pm Boston University School of Law, Classroom 102, First Floor The Roberts Court has embarked on a revolution in constitutional doctrine using history to legitimate its constitutional revolution and establish its authority. Sometimes the Court’s conservative majority employs originalism, sometimes it invokes tradition, and sometimes it ignores originalism and tradition […]
Law, Globalization and Development Colloquium at NYU
The Colloquium on Law, Globalization and Development will focus on the role that law and legal institutions play in economic, social, and political development. Each public session will involve a presentation of a work-in-progress by an invited speaker and will be open to members of the NYU community Monday, March 10 Weijia Rao, Boston University […]
International Law Colloquium at the University of Georgia: “Signaling through National Security Lawmaking”
This talk with Weijia Rao, Associate Professor of Law at the Boston University School of Law, is part of the spring 2025 International Law Colloquium, a two-credit course led by Professor Desirée LeClercq and supported by the Dean Rusk International Law Center. The topic is International Economic Law. The talk from 1-2pm is open to […]
Law Enforcement Technologies: The Realm of Facial Recognition
This conference will explore the regulatory framework of facial recognition and the challenges posed by law enforcement’s deployment of this technology in three distinct phases.