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Join #BULaw on Monday, November 17 for the Annual Kleh Lecture: “UNGPs in Turbulent Times: Systemic Violence and Global Inequality” presented by Professor Enrique Prieto-Ríos.

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November 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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One of my favorite #BULaw moments ever?

Everlyn Muendo from Tax Justice Network Africa connecting with one of my seminar students.

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November 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
A look back at some of the October Faculty Mentor Program meetings, or should we say, Matchtober meetings! At the start of the year, each 1L student is paired with a #BULawProf faculty mentor for guidance and community building.
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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NUSL’s Center for Health Policy and Law is co-sponsoring "On the Docket: Reproductive Justice and the Supreme Court" with
@bulaw.bsky.social on Nov 17. Prof. @cehaupt.bsky.social & fellow panelists will discuss Chiles v. Salazar and First Choice Women's Center v. Platkin. www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
On the Docket: Reproductive Justice and the Supreme Court | School of Law
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November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Join @bulawreview.bsky.social on Friday, November 14, for its Fall 2025 Symposium: “The University and Democracy.”

Co-sponsored by Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education, AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, and Critical Legal Collective.

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November 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
#BULawProf @michaelrulrich.bsky.social joined dozens of thought leaders in charting “Toward a Safer World by 2040,” the JAMA Summit Report on Reducing Firearm Violence and Harms which aims to substantially reduce firearm violence by 2040.

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The JAMA Summit Report on Reducing Firearm Violence and Harms
This Special Communication discusses the JAMA Summit on Firearm Violence and provides an innovations roadmap to lead to substantial reductions in firearm violence, injuries, and harm in the US by 2040.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Last week, @massago.bsky.social Andrea Joy Campbell joined a fireside chat with #BULaw student Ivana Wijedasa (’26), Tai Walker of Western New England University School of Law, and Diamond Blaylock-Norris of @nusl.bsky.social.

Photos courtesy of the Office of Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell.
November 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A new @jama.com report featuring insight from #BULawProf @michaelrulrich.bsky.social. Learn more ⬇️
The JAMA Summit on Firearm Violence gathered experts from medicine, policy, engineering, and community groups to develop a plan for reducing firearm harms by 2040.

Learn more in this Special Communication: ja.ma/47URrzB
November 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
#BULaw is thrilled to congratulate the Honorable Rebeca Carrillo Martinez (LAW’92, Hon.’25) and Dr. Clarence B. Jones (’59) on each receiving 2025 Best of BU Distinguished Alumni Awards from @bualumni.bsky.social!

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Photos: Dana J. Quigley, DJQ Media LLC
October 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
#BULawProf @hartzog.bsky.social on LinkedIn’s battle to stop bots from collecting user data: “The unfettered scraping of personal data violates every bedrock privacy principle that is enshrined in most privacy laws in the United States and around the world." ⬇️ spr.ly/6332371tX9
LinkedIn Battles Online Scrapers in Perpetual Struggle Over Data
LinkedIn was instrumental in shutting down a company scraping its information earlier this year. Now, it is going after another.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
" Everybody is a human being," Justice Sonia Sotomayor told the crowd as speaker of the #BULaw Shapiro Lecture. "You have to stop thinking that when somebody thinks something different than you do, that they're necessarily bad people because of that."

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'I refuse to be a bystander': Justice Sotomayor on dissent and division in the U.S. today
At a Boston University lecture, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor encouraged students to maintain faith in the courts and resist political complacency.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Boston University School of Law had the honor of hosting United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor as this year’s Shapiro Lecture speaker.

Learn more and watch the full lecture here ➡️ www.bu.edu/law/record/a...

Photography by: Colgan Johnson
October 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The clue is: This BU Law alumna, a former prosecutor turned private defense attorney, who recently competed on “Jeopardy!”.

If you answered “Who is Amanda Tholke ('11)?”, you are correct! Tholke took to the "Jeopardy!" stage for the October 20 episode ⬇️ spr.ly/6332071S3j
Anderson Township Attorney Takes the “Jeopardy!” Stage - Cincinnati Magazine
Amanda Tholke swapped the courtroom for the buzzer, representing Greater Cincinnati on season 42 of "Jeopardy!"
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October 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Congratulations to Jill Casselman ('09) on her appointment to serve as a Judge in the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Since 2019, Casselman was an Assistant US Attorney at the US Attorney’s Office, Central District of California.

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Governor Newsom announces judicial appointments | Governor of California
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October 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Join #BULaw on 11/4 for “Tax Multilateralism in the Age of Shifting Geopolitics: What it Means for the Global South” with Everlyn Muendo (Tax Justice Network Africa) and Professor Attiya Waris (UN & University of Nairobi).

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October 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Last Friday, I had the honor to lead this conversation with Justice Sotomayor at BU Law’s Annual Shapiro Lecture.
On Friday, October 24, BU Law had the honor of hosting United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor as speaker of the Annual Shapiro Lecture. Justice Sotomayor was joined by her former law clerk, Cesar Lopez-Morales (’14).

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Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor Offers Advice, Insight to BU Law Students at Annual Shapiro Lecture
She spoke with her former law clerk Cesar Lopez-Morales (LAW’14) in a wide-ranging conversation at the Tsai Performance Center
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October 28, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Join #BULaw on 11/3 for a book talk on “Racial Capitalism and International Tax Law: The Story of Global Jim Crow” by #BULawProf <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wd6i5zk4pb7m6kxzzdijilof" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@islandtaxprof.bsky.social where experts will discuss the intersection of race, economics, and global tax policy.

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October 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
On Friday, October 24, BU Law had the honor of hosting United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor as speaker of the Annual Shapiro Lecture. Justice Sotomayor was joined by her former law clerk, Cesar Lopez-Morales (’14).

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Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor Offers Advice, Insight to BU Law Students at Annual Shapiro Lecture
She spoke with her former law clerk Cesar Lopez-Morales (LAW’14) in a wide-ranging conversation at the Tsai Performance Center
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October 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
#BULawProf @koutterson.bsky.social of @carb-x.bsky.social on the debate regarding the mass distribution of antibiotics in Africa versus the risk of increasing #AMR: “There are also those who say, ‘There are lives being saved now... Why are we hesitating?’” ➡️ spr.ly/63322A7wfO
‘I fear we are sitting on a time bomb.’ Scientists debate mass distribution of antibiotics in Africa
Prophylactic use of azithromycin saves vulnerable children’s lives, but could trigger antibiotic resistance
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October 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A public defender turned professor, #BULawProf Emmanuel Hiram Arnaud's scholarship explores the application of the Federal Constitution and criminal procedure in the US and its territories.

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October 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“It’s not legal to sell to youth, but youth acquire the products through their own social networks,” said #BULawProf Katharine Silbaugh, a proponent of nicotine-free generation bans to distance underage access from legal buyers.

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South Hadley joins growing movement to create ‘nicotine-free generation’ - Daily Hampshire Gazette
SOUTH HADLEY — South Hadley this week became the third municipality in Hampshire County to enact a “nicotine-free generation” regulation, which prohibits the sale of nicotine products to anyone born after Jan 1, 2005. The Board of Health unanimously passed the initiative during its Tuesday, Oct. 14 meeting, joining Belchertown and Pelham. The regulation begins […]
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October 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Congratulations to Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Hall of Fame inductees Joel R. Carpenter (’87), John C. Carroll Jr. (’74), Martha Coakley (’79), Leo J. Cushing (’85), Pamela S. Gilman (’84), David A. Lowy (’87), Ellen J. Messing (’77), & Neil Sugarman (’65)!

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October 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"When lawmakers allow privacy nicks to become routine, repeated exposures can acclimate people to being vulnerable and watched in increasingly intimate ways," writes #BULawProf @hartzog.bsky.social and co-authors Evan Selinger and Johanna Gunawan.

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How everyday tech is training us to accept constant surveillance
By ignoring small tech intrusions, society lowers the bar for what counts as privacy.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
#BULawProf Cornelius Hurley on regional bank expansion: “The most telling thing is that there's a new sheriff in town when it comes to consolidation in this industry, and it's much more liberal, if you can apply the word liberal to the Trump administration.” spr.ly/63321At0Rh
Here's one reason regional banks are expanding
Hint: a more relaxed regulatory environment.
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October 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM