Spring 2025

Current Issue

Explore the latest issue of the Record, marking five years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a period that continues to reveal deep inequalities across society. From racial justice and healthcare reform to combatting police brutality and family policing, BU Law faculty and alumni are using the law to drive meaningful change.

In This Issue

Healthcare
From the ICU to BU Law

A former nurse ready to transform the healthcare system pursues a new calling.
Alumni
Dismantling Discrimination Through Data and Policy

The Fight Against AAPI Hate.
Alumni
Alumni Activists

BU Law alumni on the front line push for systemic change.
Mentorship
Health Law Mentorship Program: Making Matches to Ignite a Passion
Research
Revealing Research

Faculty and alumni scholarship confronts public health inequities.
CARB-X
A Stronger Path Forward for Infection Control and Antimicrobial Resistance: Learning From COVID-19

A stronger path forward for infection control and antimicrobial resistance
LLM in American Law
Returning to Where It All Began
Reflections
A Community United by Passion and Purpose

From the Dean’s Desk
Alumni
News & Updates from BU Law Alumni

Spring 2025

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Student Innovations Law Clinic

What Was IP Law Like in the 90s?

SILC Executive Director Jef Pearlman, reflects on the similarities between IP law and emerging technologies, then and now.

Legal History

LGBTQIA+ Rights Leader John Ward (’76) Is BU Law’s 2026 Commencement Speaker

The trailblazing civil rights lawyer and the first openly gay man to argue before the US Supreme Court will address graduates on May 17.

Social Change

Law, Movements, and the Fragility of Hope

A conversation with Boston University School of Law associate professor, Dr. Ayodeji Kamau, Perrin.

In Memoriam

Remembering the Honorable Robert W. Pratt

Judge Pratt, who visited BU Law as its first Jurist in Residence in September 2024, served as a United States District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa for more than 26 years, leaving an enduring mark on the law, the judiciary, and the many lives he touched.