Past Activites & Engagements.
Poetry Reading with Sandra Yannone and Anne Tweedy
Join us for a poetry reading during National Poetry Month with award-winning poets Sandra Yannone, author of The Glass Studio, and Ann Tweedy, author of The Body’s Alphabet. Sandra and Ann will read from their books, discuss why poetry matters in LGBTQ+ and other communities in 2025, and entertain audience questions. Book signing to follow.
“Racism Denial and the Movement Toward a New Resegregation” and Other Thoughts on CRT
Join Boston University Law School Dean and Critical Race Theorist Angela Onwuachi-Willig to discuss a new idea related to racism denial under the current Trump Administration! The law has and is being used as a policing function to exact punishment on white people who choose to associate with people of color through DEI programs or […]
Book Talk: Health Law as Private Law
Please join us to celebrate the launch of Health Law as Private Law: Pathology or Pathway, published by Cambridge University Press. Might private law be as powerful a tool as government regulation in solving problems in health care and public health? This new edited volume, which grew from a 2023 conference at the Petrie-Flom Center for […]
Just Taxation Workshop 2025
Boston University School of Law, Redstone Room 10th Floor April 15th, 2025 12:30 – 1:30pm Lunch 1:30 -2:30pm Presentation Please join us on April 15th for a presentation from Dr. Lyla Latif from the University of Nairobi, who will be presenting “A Critical Discussion on Technology, AI, and Digitalisation in Reconstructing Fiscal Institutions Beyond Colonial […]
The Battle for Our Attention: Empirical, Philosophical and Legal Questions
Join Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity for a timely conversation at the intersection of law, technology and human cognition. The Battle for Our Attention: Empirical, Philosophical and Legal Questions brings together leading scholars and experts to tackle the growing crisis of technologically-mediated attention disorders. Across panels on the political economy of attention, the challenges […]
A Panel Celebrating the Publication of “The Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19”
Boston University School of Law 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Barristers Hall The Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19, edited by BU Law faculty members Linda C. McClain and Aziza Ahmed, is a comprehensive research guide for researchers and students who seek to study and evaluate the complex relationship between gender and COVID-19. This interdisciplinary and intersectional […]
On the Unitary Executive: Professor Jed Shugerman
Join ACS for a conversation with Jed Shugerman, Professor of Law at Boston University, on the Unitary Executive theory. Professor Shugerman, an expert on executive power, has critically examined the historical foundations of this theory.
Legislative Advocacy Skills, Strategies, and Solidarity: Building Collective Power to Change the Law
Boston University School of Law 765 Commonwealth Avenue Classroom 103, First Floor This event will bring together Boston-area legal and community organizations to share the legislative advocacy skills and strategies that they have employed in their efforts to promote greater healing, dignity, and freedom in Massachusetts. The panel will be followed by a Q&A session. […]
37th Annual Health Law Symposium: Skrmetti and the Future of Gender Affirming Care – Law, Policy, and Public Health Perils
Speakers Included: Ben Greene Speaker, Author, Advocate Seema Mohapatra MD Anderson Foundation Endowed Professor in Health Law; Professor of Law, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law Arjee Restar Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Health Systems and Population Health, University of Washington School of Public Health Michael R. Ulrich Professor of Health Law, Ethics, & Human […]
Luncheon Roundtable on Third Party Litigation Financing & Litigation Transparency
Join the Law & Economics Center (LEC) for lunch on Wednesday, March 26, from 11:30 am – 1:30 pm in downtown DC for an academic roundtable on Third Party Litigation Financing & Litigation Transparency, discussing transparency in our civil justice system, especially when it comes to third party litigation financing (TPLF)—a increasingly used and similarly […]