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Notable articles on Eagleionline:
- Congratulations Class of 2008! EiO’s summer schedule
- Mukasey: faculty dissent; WSJ responds; law students surveyed
- Where should a law student live? (and housing for sale)
- Law students answer the question “Why BC?”
- BC Law students react to District of Columbia v. Heller.
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BC Law Alum Criticizes Admissions Policies Toward Veterans
In a recent edition of the Massachusetts Lawyer Weekly, Brian Cook (BC Law ‘85) criticizes the lack of preference given to military veterans in the admissions process at BC.
This year, I was asked by a student whom I did not know well to write a letter of recommendation to BC. I met him and heard his story and could not wait to help him. He was not the son of an alumnus or a politician or a wealthy business leader. He was a veteran who had served his country and luckily returned, albeit disabled, with a renewed sense of place and interest in studying law after being in a world where there was no rule of law.
This experience changed him. He improved his grades, took the LSATs and applied to law schools. He was accepted at nearly every school he applied to except BC. In fact, BC Law, the school that spoke comfortably from Chestnut Hill about public service and lawyers who made a difference, did not even wait-list him.
When I inquired about his application, I was told that BC does not “track” veterans or even know how many of its class are veterans. The school certainly doesn’t know how many of its applicants or admits are disabled veterans.
James
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Why did Kerry go to BC?
During the 2004 presidential election, University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Ann Althouse inquired about Senator John Kerry’s intelligence based on the fact that he attended Boston College Law School.
I’ve been wondering why Kerry went to Boston College Law School. Since he was rich, it can’t have been the lure of a free ride. You would think, with his anti-war activism, he would have been a very attractive candidate for admission to Harvard (or another top-ranked law school) if only his LSAT and GPA were at all within range. No offense to Boston College, of course. I think it’s similar to attending my school, the University of Wisconsin Law School. And the point is, he had an extremely admirable personal story and record of activism, as well as the ability to pay his way, so he could have gotten into Boston College with numbers well below those of the average students.
Now, Thomas Lipscomb at the Huffington Post takes his shot at BC Law four years late in an attempt to offer meaningful commentary on the current presidential election.
Why had a Boston snob like John Kerry gone to a subway law school like Boston College? A source who had been on the Harvard Law School admissions board revealed that with Kerry’s bad military record he was turned down for admission though clearly qualified because they didn’t want to admit someone who they thought would be unable to pass the bar.
Specifically, Lipscomb infers that there were concerns that Kerry would be unable to pass the character and fitness requirement of the bar.
[A] former Secretary of the Navy told me that Kerry had asked him to expunge the disciplinary action the Navy had taken against him for what the Navy regarded as treasonous activities supporting the enemy in a time of war so he could be admitted to a law school and get on with his career. The Secretary refused. So it appears that Kerry went to Father Drinan, the former dean of the Boston College Law School. Kerry had decided not to run against Drinan for an open Congressional seat Drinan then occupied. Kerry asked him for help. The disciplinary action disappeared from Kerry’s official records with the general Jimmy Carter amnesty for Vietnam veterans with bad service records, the first bill Carter initiated after his inauguration.
More Lawyers, Less Jobs?
Justin Pope, an education writer at the Associate Press, wrote an article this week that never ceases to get law students’ attention at Boston College Law School: the legal job market. With the ABA’s recent accreditation of the Charlotte School of Law and Elon University as the 199th and 200th accredited law schools in the United States (technically they have provisional accreditation), Pope reminds readers that only a few law school graduates actually earn those nose-bleed salaries.
JS
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Mentor 1Ls
While most 2Ls are working hard for their stipends (and freaking out about grades coming out… sort of) and 3Ls are enjoying Red Sox games from their firms’ luxury boxes, the New Student Liaison Committee is gearing up for the new crop of 1Ls and transfer students arriving in August. Duck tours are being scheduled, field day equipment gathered, and most importantly right now, current student mentors are being recruited. Each year, all of the incoming students are paired with a rising 2L or 3L who has volunteered to serve as a mentor. These students serve as invaluable resources to their mentees, sharing outlines and advice, experiences and cautions. And if the intrinsic rewards were not enough, you get a free BBQ in Sept. out of the deal too.
Pairings will be made throughout the summer as the admissions lists are finalized, and both mentors and mentees will receive their assignments via email in late summer.
Any current student who is interested in serving as a mentor should send an email to Lauren Graber at lgraber1@gmail.com with his/her undergraduate school and year of graduation.
Mukasey Discusses National Security and the Law
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey spoke to Boston College Law School’s Class of 2008 yesterday. Here are his remarks:
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Faculty and Students Distribute Memo on Waterboarding at Graduation
Updated on Friday, May 23, 2008 at 11:35AM by
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A “Graduation Handout” is being passed around by a few faculty and students at the graduation events today. The handout refers to past articles on the issue of waterboarding by Professors from BC and other law schools.
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Mukasey to Discuss Ethics with Class of 2008
By Jesse Stellato, May 21, 2008
The BLT: The Blog of LegalTimes, reported today that Attorney General Mukasey will speak about ethics at Friday’s commencement. Referencing an unamed offical at the Justice Department, author wrote that Mukasey “will discuss the ethical responsibilities of being a lawyer, especially in the complex area of national security.”
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Reception Honoring Representative Jamie Eldridge BCLS '00
BCLS is invited to attend a reception this Thursday honoring Representative Jamie Eldridge ‘00, candidate for State Senate, Middlesex & Worcester District.
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Next AG to Visit Campus Might Be One of Our Own
Washingtonian magazine has printed a series of articles speculating on who might fill the top appointed positions in the next administration. BC Law is well-represented on the list with two possible picks for Senator John McCain (R-AZ).
If former Law & Order DA Fred Thompson doesn’t head the real-life Justice Department, Debra Wong Yang [BCLS ‘85] might become attorney general. A former state judge now at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, she was the first Asian-American woman to serve as a US Attorney and led the largest US Attorney’s office outside of Washington as head of the Central District of California, which includes LA.
Also mentioned as a potential pick is former New Hampshire Senator Warren Rudman (BCLS ‘60), who has been one of McCain’s economic advisors during the campaign and could reportedly end up as Secretary of Treasury or as a member of the National Economic Council.
BC in Iraq
Captain Alan Wehbe COL ‘01 in Baghdad. The photograph below, entitled “An alumnus abroad,” was featured today on Boston College’s WebMail (mail.bc.edu).
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Kerry Kennedy '87 Tells BC Law Alums: "Hold Fast to Your Dreams"
By Jesse Stellato, May 6, 2008
International human rights activist and author Kerry Kennedy ‘87 (bio) gave the speech below at Boston College Law School’s Law Day celebration on April 29, 2008 in Boston’s Seaport Hotel.
“As you leave here today, hold fast to your dreams—to your courage and your commitment,” Kennedy said. “And, make America America again,” she concluded.
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Good Luck on Exams!
Eagleionline would like to wish everyone the best of luck on exams.
We will continue to post during the exam period; however, the number of posts will decrease. Please feel free to take advantage of our outline database, which has over 230 outlines. The database is only as helpful as the outlines it contains, so if you found it useful please take the time to download your outlines for the benefit of the BCLS community.
Eagleionline does not publish regularly over the summer, although our writers and others will still post from time to time. Daily articles will resume in Fall 2008.
Regards,
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BCLR Volume 49:3 is now online
Boston College Law Review, Issue 49:3 (May 2008)Articles
Steven A. Dean, The Incomplete Global Market for Tax Information, 49 B.C. L. Rev. 605 (2008) [PDF]
Jonathan Remy Nash, Economic Efficiency Versus Public Choice: The Case of Property Rights in Road Traffic Management, 49 B.C. L. Rev. 673 (2008) [PDF]
Katherine J. Strandburg, Freedom of Association in a Networked World: First Amendment Regulation of Relational Surveillance, 49 B.C. L. Rev. 741 (2008) [PDF]
Notes
Jonathan K. Geldert, Presidential Advisors and Their Most Unpresidential Activities: Why Executive Privilege Cannot Shield White House Information in the U.S. Attorney Firings Controversy, 49 B.C. L. Rev. 823 (2008) [PDF]
John A. Kupiec, Returning to Principles of “Fairness and Justice”: The Role of Investment-Backed Expectations in Total Regulatory Taking Claims, 49 B.C. L. Rev. 865 (2008) [PDF]
Contents of current and past issues are available at our website.
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Election Politics: 2Ls v. 3Ls
Today at 4:00 p.m. in Stuart 409, the Boston College Law School Democrats will elect that group’s President for the 2008-09 academic year. The election features two candidates, a rising 3L (also the incumbent) and a rising 2L. The 2/3L faceoff thus raises a small, but nevertheless important and perennial, issue for student groups at BCLS: should student organizations, acting to optimize the benefit to the greatest number of their constituents over the long run, choose rising 2Ls or 3Ls to represent them? As a general rule, and acknowledging that there can be important exceptions to general rules, I think that 2Ls should sit at the helm of most student organizations.
Moot Court Finals TODAY
What’s the best advice you’ve gotten so far from the judges? The oddest?
DH: Best advice, always put your best foot forward. Oddest, I didn’t personally receive it, but another competitor was criticized for being “too tall.”
JS: The best advice from judges has been to really try and have a conversation. It doesn’t help to read a prepared statement if the judges are concerned over certain issues. The point is to be able to make the arguments you want to make while still addressing the judges’ questions
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