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Professor Brown Named Interim Law Dean

Eagleionline Staff — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:12:40 +0000

George D. Brown, the Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Professor of Law and a nationally renowned expert in government ethics, has been named interim dean of Boston College Law School.

Brown, who has served as associate dean of academic affairs under former deans John Garvey and Aviam Soifer, was chosen by Boston College President William P. Leahy, S.J., following Garvey’s appointment as president of Catholic University.

So, what do you think of the choice of Brown as Interim Law Dean? And who would you like to see chosen as the next official Dean of BC Law?

Writing Competition: Decision Day

Eagleionline Staff — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:52:56 +0000

Just a heads up to check your email inboxes. Decisions for the writing competition have started going out this morning. Good luck to everyone that took part in the competition!

Law Review Executive Boards

Eagleionline Staff — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:00:00 +0000

The executive boards are posted here on eagleionline for the other journals at Boston College Law School. This information should be helpful for incoming 2L staffers and the BCLS community to increase transparency and clarity with our austere publications. The complete list of officers appears after the jump.

Editors-in-Chief

Third World Law Journal: Melanie Riccobene Jarboe

Environmental Affairs Law Journal: Alana Var der Mude

International and Comparative Law Review: Carol Cleary

The BC Law Review Executive Board

Noah — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0000

The Boston College Law Review has concluded the election process for executive board positions for the incoming school year. These third-year students who have shown academic and scholastic excellence were elected by their peers to lead the Boston College Law Review to another exceptional year. The full list of executive board officers appears after the jump.

Garvey Interviewed in the Heights

Eagleionline Staff — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:01:07 +0000

The Heights published an interview of John Garvey today. For Eagleionline’s retrospective, click here. Among the quotes in the Heights article are the following:

“I didn’t really have an interest in being a dean as an abstract matter[.] The glory of it is not great enough to make it worth while and I love being a teacher. But being the dean of a law school as prominent as BC is something that I thought was worth giving up teaching and writing books.”
“The same things that attracted me to BC attracted me to Catholic[.] It’s the national university of the Catholic Church and I can’t imagine leaving this school to be president of just somewhere random.”

Are You Better Than Average?

Eagleionline Staff — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:40:05 +0000

If you were a member of the Class of 2010, you can tell potential employers that you were better than average if your GPA exceeded 3.332. Click here to find out if you were in that rarified world of the Top 10%. And 1L’s, remember that these numbers are for the graduating class, not necessarily the 1L class. Finally, on the subject of law school grades see this article in the New York Times, which discusses grade inflation in law school in the wake of the worst job market for lawyers in years.

Punishing McChrystal

JS — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:13:46 +0000

President Obama and General McChrystalThe topic of war is not one lawyers are generally qualified to address. To be sure, there are rules of engagement and principles of national relations that can properly be considered by lawyers. And once in a while, the Supreme Court hands down an opinion addressing the the president’s war-making power. But the topic of war is more of a political question than a legal debate.

When it comes to punishment, though, lawyers may claim their rightful province. Deterrence, retribution, perhaps even justice — these are things we learn to consider from the start. And “contempt” and “rehabilitation,” well, those too are something we lawyers know more than a little about.

In the current debate over General Stanley A. McChrystal, it is worth asking what, if anything, McChrystal is guilty of and how, if at all, he should be punished for his conduct. On the first issue,

Teaching to the Bar

Adam — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:54:33 +0000

Bar exam studying is not fun. Find me a recent BCLS graduate who is having an enjoyable summer completing all of their barbri assignments and I will be shocked. It’s a particularly lovely experience learning new subjects such as NY Practice which you had no interaction with in law school. Occasionally, though, a lecture on torts or property will bring back some repressed memories/knowledge from 1L year. For those recent grads/alums looking for a distraction, tell us what courses and teachers are most helpful in studying for the bar.