In an ideal world, laws are meant to uphold justice. However, as evidenced by a history spanning slavery and Jim Crow laws, the United States has shown that legislation can reinforce racial inequality.
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Law professionals from across the country gathered at the BU School of Law on Friday to attend the symposium entitled, “Racial Bias, Disparities and Oppression in the 1L Curriculum,” to discuss the lack of diversity in conversations in the field.
A line of more than 300 people snaked around the Rafik B. Hariri building that houses the Questrom School of Business to get a good seat to see Kimberlé Crenshaw, a civil rights lawyer and the mind behind the intersectionality theory, speak on Monday.
Boston University Professor of Law Danielle Citron was named a MacArthur Fellow on Wednesday, an accolade awarded annually to U.S. citizens or residents working in any field that demonstrates “promise for important future advances” and “exceptional creativity,” according to the MacArthur Fellows website.
LGBTQ student organization OutLaw led a protest at the Boston University School of Law against allowing the U.S. Military, which under the Trump administration has proposed a ban on transgender people serving in the military.
Angela Onwuachi-Willig has been named the new dean of Boston University’s School of Law. Onwuachi-Willig is coming to BU from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she was the Chancellor’s Professor of Law.
