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#BULawProf @profcrobertson.bsky.social argues that state caps on noneconomic damages reduce deterrence for medical negligence and disproportionately affect less wealthy patients, discouraging lawyers from taking their cases.
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A Maine mother’s $25M medical malpractice verdict was the largest in the state’s history. She won’t see it all.
Some damages are limited by a $750,000 cap the jury wasn't aware of. Mid Coast Medical Group is asking a judge for a new trial.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
#BULawProf @profcrobertson.bsky.social argues that state caps on noneconomic damages reduce deterrence for medical negligence and disproportionately affect less wealthy patients, discouraging lawyers from taking their cases.
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Congratulations to students Allison Toledo (’28), Leena Khurana (’28), Roy Chang (’28), and Alex Guo (’28) for representing #BULaw at the 2025 ABA Regional Negotiation Competition!
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Congratulations to students Allison Toledo (’28), Leena Khurana (’28), Roy Chang (’28), and Alex Guo (’28) for representing #BULaw at the 2025 ABA Regional Negotiation Competition!
On 10/14, BU Program on Reproductive Justice Executive Director Sapna Khatri and BUPRJ Research Assistant Georgia Aguilar (’27) visited the MA statehouse to testify in support of legislation promoting and enhancing the sustainability of birth centers and the midwifery workforce.
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
On 10/14, BU Program on Reproductive Justice Executive Director Sapna Khatri and BUPRJ Research Assistant Georgia Aguilar (’27) visited the MA statehouse to testify in support of legislation promoting and enhancing the sustainability of birth centers and the midwifery workforce.
Congratulations to #BULawProf Susan Akram on receiving a 2025 “Top Women of Law” award from Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly!
The Top Women of Law event celebrates the achievements of exceptional lawyers who are pioneers, educators, trailblazers and role models ➡️ masslawyersweekly.com/event/top-wo...
The Top Women of Law event celebrates the achievements of exceptional lawyers who are pioneers, educators, trailblazers and role models ➡️ masslawyersweekly.com/event/top-wo...
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Congratulations to #BULawProf Susan Akram on receiving a 2025 “Top Women of Law” award from Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly!
The Top Women of Law event celebrates the achievements of exceptional lawyers who are pioneers, educators, trailblazers and role models ➡️ masslawyersweekly.com/event/top-wo...
The Top Women of Law event celebrates the achievements of exceptional lawyers who are pioneers, educators, trailblazers and role models ➡️ masslawyersweekly.com/event/top-wo...
Join #BULaw on 11/24 for the Inaugural Tamar Frankel Lecture: “Corporate Governance Authoritarianism,” featuring Professor Ann Lipton (University of Colorado).
Learn more and register ➡️ www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Join #BULaw on 11/24 for the Inaugural Tamar Frankel Lecture: “Corporate Governance Authoritarianism,” featuring Professor Ann Lipton (University of Colorado).
Learn more and register ➡️ www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
Learn more and register ➡️ www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
Dubbed “the intellectual godmother of the fiduciary rule,” #BULawProf Emerita Tamar Frankel broke barriers as a trailblazer in fiduciary and corporate law and as #BULaw’s first tenured woman professor.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Dubbed “the intellectual godmother of the fiduciary rule,” #BULawProf Emerita Tamar Frankel broke barriers as a trailblazer in fiduciary and corporate law and as #BULaw’s first tenured woman professor.
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@BU_Law clinics and the Program on Reproductive Justice submitted a comment urging the FDA to protect access to mifepristone, an essential medication for reproductive health. Restrictions on mifepristone harm marginalized communities. Read more at the link in bio.
November 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
@BU_Law clinics and the Program on Reproductive Justice submitted a comment urging the FDA to protect access to mifepristone, an essential medication for reproductive health. Restrictions on mifepristone harm marginalized communities. Read more at the link in bio.
#BULawProf Enrique Prieto-Ríos says that it’s never been more important to understand the ways international law affects everyday people. Today, he will deliver the Annual Kleh Lecture: “UNGPs in Turbulent Times: Systemic Violence and Global Inequality."
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November 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
#BULawProf Enrique Prieto-Ríos says that it’s never been more important to understand the ways international law affects everyday people. Today, he will deliver the Annual Kleh Lecture: “UNGPs in Turbulent Times: Systemic Violence and Global Inequality."
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Join #BULaw on Tuesday, November 18, for “International Law: Dialogues Between Latin America and the United States” featuring a keynote from Justice Natalia Ángel-Cabo of the Colombian Constitutional Court.
Learn more and register ➡️ www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
Learn more and register ➡️ www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
November 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Join #BULaw on Tuesday, November 18, for “International Law: Dialogues Between Latin America and the United States” featuring a keynote from Justice Natalia Ángel-Cabo of the Colombian Constitutional Court.
Learn more and register ➡️ www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
Learn more and register ➡️ www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
Veterans and first responders are reenergizing their #BULaw community. Alumni Rick McCombs (’73) and Sean Solis (’03) have created funds to help students thrive while Nicholas Wainwright (’25) and Tyler Roderick (’26) are connecting and empowering peers ➡️ www.bu.edu/law/record/a...
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Veterans and first responders are reenergizing their #BULaw community. Alumni Rick McCombs (’73) and Sean Solis (’03) have created funds to help students thrive while Nicholas Wainwright (’25) and Tyler Roderick (’26) are connecting and empowering peers ➡️ www.bu.edu/law/record/a...
Join the Boston University Program on Reproductive Justice on 11/17 for a panel discussion examining two major Supreme Court cases this term and their potential impact on reproductive justice in the United States.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Join the Boston University Program on Reproductive Justice on 11/17 for a panel discussion examining two major Supreme Court cases this term and their potential impact on reproductive justice in the United States.
Lear more and register ➡️ www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
Lear more and register ➡️ www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
Congratulations to #BULawProf @jdahlstrom765.bsky.social and Cody Jacobs on their recent promotions! They are among the 45 lecturers and faculty with modified titles on the Charles River campus to receive promotions this year.
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Promotions of Lecturers and Faculty with Modified Titles on the Charles River Campus
Each year, we have the pleasure of recognizing the promotions of talented faculty on the Charles River Campus to the ranks of full and associate professor, as we did in June. Other faculty colleagues, equally important to our teaching and research mission, have their promotions reviewed in the schools and colleges throughout the academic year.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Congratulations to #BULawProf @jdahlstrom765.bsky.social and Cody Jacobs on their recent promotions! They are among the 45 lecturers and faculty with modified titles on the Charles River campus to receive promotions this year.
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Learn more ➡️ spr.ly/633217nngx
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Save the date! Jan 23-24 BU is hosting the Compassionate Use and Pre-Approval Working Group meeting, CUPACon 2026!
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Save the date! Jan 23-24 BU is hosting the Compassionate Use and Pre-Approval Working Group meeting, CUPACon 2026!
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Thank you so much to the @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social for posting my book! legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/ahme... 🙏🏽
Ahmed, "Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS"
Cambridge University Press has published Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS , by Aziza Ahmed (Bosto...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Thank you so much to the @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social for posting my book! legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/ahme... 🙏🏽
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
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.
Learn more and register ➡️ spr.ly/633247PXLY
Learn more and register ➡️ spr.ly/633247PXLY
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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.
#taxlaw #taxjustice
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
One of my favorite #BULaw moments ever?
Everlyn Muendo from Tax Justice Network Africa connecting with one of my seminar students.
#taxlaw #taxjustice
Everlyn Muendo from Tax Justice Network Africa connecting with one of my seminar students.
#taxlaw #taxjustice
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
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.
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New #RaceClass episode is out. We chat abt last week’s amazing #Smithsonian #teach-in organized by @kcarterjackson.bsky.social @pastpunditry.bsky.social @natedimeo.bsky.social @jodyavirgan.com @thisdaypod.com & #TheMemoryPalace.
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November 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
New #RaceClass episode is out. We chat abt last week’s amazing #Smithsonian #teach-in organized by @kcarterjackson.bsky.social @pastpunditry.bsky.social @natedimeo.bsky.social @jodyavirgan.com @thisdaypod.com & #TheMemoryPalace.
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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...
@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
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...
@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...
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.
Register ➡️ www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
Co-sponsored by Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education, AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, and Critical Legal Collective.
Register ➡️ www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
November 5, 2025 at 3:39 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.
Register ➡️ www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
Co-sponsored by Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education, AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, and Critical Legal Collective.
Register ➡️ www.bu.edu/law/engageme...
#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
#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.
Read more from @jama.com ➡️ spr.ly/633277KOUN
Read more from @jama.com ➡️ spr.ly/633277KOUN
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.
Photos courtesy of the Office of Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell.
November 3, 2025 at 6:39 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.
Photos courtesy of the Office of Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell.
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
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
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Photos: Dana J. Quigley, DJQ Media LLC
October 31, 2025 at 5:30 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!
Learn more ➡️ spr.ly/633237H663
Photos: Dana J. Quigley, DJQ Media LLC
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Photos: Dana J. Quigley, DJQ Media LLC
#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
#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