Upcoming Events - 2008
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FEATURED UPCOMING BU LAW EVENTS
The Elizabeth Battelle Clark Legal History Series featuring Professor Kerry Abrams, University of Virginia School of Law
October 8, 2008
4:30 - 5:30 p.m., Room 920
Professor Kerry Abrams, University of Virginia School of Law presents: "Marriage, Immigration, and the Settlement of the West: The Case of the Mercer Girls"
J.D. Reunion 2008
Calling the Classes of: 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998 and 2003...
and all classes prior to 1958 for the Golden Circle Dinner, an annual tradition.
October 10 - 11, 2008
A sampling of panels featuring BU Law alumni...
Current Challenges Facing the Financial Industry: Insights from Three Industry Professionals, featuring
- William McDonough ‘68, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Federal Reserve Bank
- Marc D. Puntus ‘93, Managing Director, Miller Buckfire
- Lisa Roitman ‘94, Managing Director, Lehman Brothers
Where Is Health Care Really Going These Days? Three Legal Pros Give You the Inside Scoop on the Cutting-Edge Issues of Medical Tourism, Transparency & Accountability, and Privacy & Technology
- Fran Miller, LLB'65, Professor of Law, Public Health and Management
- Krietta Bowens, '05, Associate, Health Practice, Mintz Levin
- Douglas Brown, '88, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc.
- Daniel Walden, '78, Senior Vice President - Corporate Compliance & Chief Privacy Officer, Medco Health Solutions, Inc.
Students are welcome to attend the alumni panels and faculty-led symposia exploring contemporary legal and business issues. Combined programming with the Graduate School of Management adds a unique perspective to modern legal careers.
The Elizabeth Battelle Clark Legal History Series featuring Professor Daniel Sharfstein, Vanderbilt Law School
October 15, 2008
4:30 - 5:30 p.m., Room 920
Professor Daniel Sharfstein, Vanderbilt Law School presents: "Becoming White in Washington, D.C.: The Passing of the Wall Family,1870-1910"
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“Is this Justice?: Technicalities and Bad Lawyers in Criminal Cases”
Shapiro Lecture featuring Stephen B. Bright, President and Senior Counsel, Southern Center for Human Rights
October 27, 2008
12:45 p.m.: Lecture, Room 1270
1:45 p.m.: Reception to follow
Stephen B. Bright is president and senior counsel of the Southern Center for Human Rights
in Atlanta and teaches at Yale and Georgetown Law School. Subjects of his litigation, teaching and writing include capital punishment, conditions and practices in prisons and jails, legal representation for poor people accused of crimes, and judicial independence.
He argued Snyder v. Louisiana before the Supreme Court in 2007. The Court reversed the
conviction and death sentence due to the prosecutor’s racial discrimination in striking the jury.
His work has been the subject of a documentary film, Finding for Life in the Death Belt, (EM
Productions 2005), and two books, Proximity to Death by William McFeely (Norton 1999) and
Finding Life on Death Row by Kayta Lezin (Northeastern University Press 1999). He received the American Bar Association’s Thurgood Marshall Award in 1998, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008.
The Elizabeth Battelle Clark Legal History Series featuring Professor Diana Williams, Wellesley College
October 29, 2008
4:30 - 5:30 p.m., Room 920
Professor Diana Williams, Wellesley College, History Department, presenting: "Staging The Octoroon in Reconstruction New Orleans"
The Elizabeth Battelle Clark Legal History Series featuring Professor Claire Priest, Northwestern Law School
November 12 , 2008
4:30 - 5:30 p.m., Room 920
Professor Claire Priest, Northwestern Law School, presents: "Understanding the End of Entail: Information, Institutions, and Slavery in the American Revolutionary Period"
The Most Disparaged Branch: The Role of the Congress in the 21st Century
November 14 &15, 2008
Boston University School of Law will hold a conference on The Most Disparaged Branch: The Role of Congress in the 21st Century. It will be the third in a series of conferences at BU that began with The Role of the Judge in the 21st Century and continued with The Role of the President in the 21st Century. Jeremy Waldron has agreed to give the keynote address on November 14 and Lawrence Lessig will give a lunch address on November 15.
If the judiciary has been called "the least dangerous branch," and the executive "the most dangerous branch," then surely Congress has been "the most disparaged branch" (or "the least respected branch"). What is more, there is considerable talk of failure in the air these days – including constitutional failure, moral failure, political failure, and institutional failure – and criticisms of Congress figure prominently in this discourse. Is Congress up to the challenge of meeting the daunting problems that it will face in the 21st Century? Are there plausible and attractive reforms that might better equip it to face these problems?
For further information or to RSVP, please contact Andrea Larsen at 617.353.8011 or alarsen@bu.edu.
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The Elizabeth Battelle Clark Legal History Series featuring Professor Kent Newmyer, University of Connecticut Law School
November 21 , 2008
4:30 - 5:30 p.m., Room 920
Professor Kent Newmyer, University of Connecticut Law School, The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr: Law, Politics, and the Character Wars of the New Nation