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This past spring, and Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig hosted the Association of American Law Schools Section on Women in Legal Education Conference, bringing together women law professionals from across the country to discuss women in leadership, gender and status in legal academia, gender and well-being in the legal profession, and more.

Gerald Leonard reflects on his mentor, Justice David H. Souter, and the origins of the Constitution:
"One of the things that I really cherished about Justice Souter was his humility as a judge. Part of that was the ways in which he recognized the inevitability of judges being affected by social context when they decide cases.
And as a historian, that's what we do. You're not just reading the opinions for the technical legal arguments. You're trying to understand how is it affected by a larger social context.
The original federalist Constitution was an essentially elitist constitution. Not a particularly democratic constitution. The vision of politics was not really democratic. It was republican. The Constitution was a constitution written by, conceived of by white men who didn't have particular concern for the citizenship of those beyond that group."
Watch more of the town hall event hosted by National Constitution Center:

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We are thrilled to have received a 2026 Excellence in Innovation: Law Schools award from Insight Into Academia magazine! We have been selected for our Judicial Clerkship Program, which represents a comprehensive, community-driven approach to preparing students for judicial service and expanding access to clerkship opportunities.
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is proud to have received a 2026 Excellence in Innovation: Law Schools recognition from Insight Into Academia magazine!

BU Law is honored for our Judicial Clerkship Program, which represents a comprehensive, community-driven approach to preparing students for judicial service and expanding access to clerkship opportunities.

Save the Date for Alumni Weekend 2026!

Join for a weekend of connection and community! All BU Law alumni are invited back to campus for Alumni Weekend on September 18-19, 2026.

This year's newly expanded program brings together alumni from across generations for social gatherings, conversations about BU Law today, special celebrations for those marking reunion years, a reception for our LLM community, and our signature Silver Shingle Dinner. Whether you're reconnecting with classmates or discovering new connections within the BU Law community, there's something for everyone.

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Katharine Silbaugh discusses the growing resistance to the adoption of statewide generational ni****ne restrictions in Massachusetts, explaining that the legislation “wasn’t going to go anywhere until more towns and cities passed it.”

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Nearly five years in, the ‘Nicotine-Free Generation’ movement could go up in smoke, advocates warn - The Boston Globe The ni****ne-free movement has yet to reach the widespread adoption that advocates say they’ll need to achieve their goal of phasing out ni****ne use for future generations.

Jessica Silbey joined Harvard Law School to discuss copyright law in the age of AI, explaining that the original intent of copyright law — first passed in 1790 — was to promote progress by incentivizing humans to create important works. The office now requires potential registrants to disclose if any part of their work was made with generative AI.

“We might start seeing practice-driven specificity,” she said. “In music, in video games, in movies, the industries are going to start deciding before the law does what kind of AI we are going to say is creative and is acceptable and what is not.”

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Copyright law ‘struggling’ to parse AI’s ascendancy - Harvard Law School Deferring hard decisions about which kinds of machine-assisted creative works can be copyrighted over nearly 250 years has made it harder to ascertain whether works produced with the help of artificial intelligence can receive legal protection, according to Harvard Law School Professor Rebecca Tushn...