A Year Like No Other
A look at BU Law during the pandemic.
Photos by Conor Doherty
A Year Like No Other
A look at BU Law during the pandemic.
Mandatory masks, virtual office hours, restricted in-person class attendance: the coronavirus pandemic brought many changes to the BU Law community in the 2020–21 academic year. Beginning in the fall semester, the Learn from Anywhere model allowed students to attend classes remotely or in person, significantly altering the way students experienced law school and the way professors and administrators worked. Students participating in person took weekly COVID tests and completed a daily symptom attestation, practice trials were conducted over Zoom, small groups studied together from across unused classrooms, and student organizations held virtual events to engage the community.
These photos, taken toward the end of the fall semester, capture small slices of the daily experience of the BU Law students who elected to learn in person and the faculty and staff who were there to support them.
Signage throughout the BU Law complex encouraged social distancing.
Students were given the option to attend class in person or remotely via Zoom.
The Criminal Law Clinical Program conducted mock trials with most participants joining remotely.
Daily Symptom Attestation resulted in a green badge, displayed at the start of in-person classes and to access the library.
