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Law

Politics

University Launches $20 Million Innovate@BU Initiative for Students

November 29, 2017

Spotlight lawyer Mitchell Garabedian working in his Boston office

Law

Mitchell Garabedian vs. the Catholic Church

November 13, 2017

Kelly Nee, chief of the Boston University Police Department

Racism

BU Police Chief Appointed to Governor’s Hate Crimes Task Force

November 8, 2017

Steven Wise

Law

Nonhuman Rights

October 26, 2017

Top of the United States Constitution document showing the words "We the People"

Politics

The Five Oddest Clauses in the US Constitution

September 26, 2017

Supreme Court Hall

Immigration

BU to Supreme Court: Kill Trump Travel Ban

September 19, 2017

Ambulance speeding through a tunnel

Alcohol

BUPD, Boston Police Resume Enhanced Alcohol Enforcement Today

September 7, 2017

an empty classroom

Admissions

POV: Defending Affirmative Action

August 9, 2017

Johnson, Morrison, Ryan, and Rosenbloom in group photo

Public Policy

911 Call on the Opioid Crisis

July 28, 2017

hospital beds

Healthcare

POV: Senate Republicans’ Health Care Reform Bill Will Hurt Millions

June 27, 2017

Michelle Carter reacts to verdict

Things-to-do

Should Teen Who Goaded Boyfriend to Suicide Have Been Convicted?

June 20, 2017

from left, Fielder, Nee, Stone, Camillo, and Benton

Boston

BUPD Officers Take Boston Police Detective Instruction

June 20, 2017

William Moulton Marston hoisting his bride, Elizabeth Holloway Marston

Law

Wonder Woman (LAW 1918)

June 2, 2017

LAW’s Naomi Mann was inspired to seek social justice by her late father, a prominent doctor combating AIDS in the 1980s.

Faculty

2017 Metcalf Cup and Prize Goes to LAW’s Naomi Mann

May 17, 2017

Gary Lawson, Philip S. Beck Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law, and winner of the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching

Accolades

A Very Different Path to Excellence

May 16, 2017

Ann McKee, director of BU’s CTE Center

Science & Technology

Court Rules for BU, against NHL in CTE Case

April 28, 2017

Attorneys for the ACLU, Omar Jadwat(L) and Justin Cox(R) listen as Becca Heller(C) from IRAP, the International Refugee Assistance Project,delivers remarks to the media outside US District Court, Southern District of Maryland, March 15, 2017, in Greenbelt, Maryland, where a judge heard their challenges to US President Trump's Executive Order travel ban

Science & Technology

BU Supports Second Lawsuit against Trump Travel Ban

April 3, 2017

Cannabis plant

Classes

The Brave New World of Legalized Marijuana

March 29, 2017

Maine attorney David Soley

Public Safety

Recalling the Public Panic in Famous Ebola Court Case

March 21, 2017

Ryan Corbett, Xinia Bermudez, Sarah Sherman-Stokes, Victoria Baratian, and Mario Paredes

Law

Help for Those Concerned about Immigration Status

February 24, 2017

Help for Those Concerned about Immigration Status