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Politics

Trump’s Indictment in Classified Documents Case: What Comes Next?

June 9, 2023

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Commencement 2023

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to 2023 BU LAW Graduates: “Anything Is Possible”

May 21, 2023

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expert take

Is Suing Visa the Best Way to Shut Down Pornhub?

May 9, 2023

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Campaign REELECTION

Age, Inflation, Abortion, Culture Wars, and More: Issues That Will Define President Biden’s Reelection Campaign

April 26, 2023

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Health & Medicine

Supreme Court Upholds FDA Approval of Mifepristone: What’s Next?

April 24, 2023

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Business & Law

LAW’s Jay Wexler Fires Up Arguments to Normalize Pot in New Book

April 14, 2023

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Healthcare

Judge’s Ruling to Invalidate Abortion Pill Ruling Could Impact Other FDA-Approved Drugs

April 11, 2023

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Government & Law

Is Trump’s Indictment Good for Democracy?

March 31, 2023

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AI & Law

Algorithms Were Supposed to Reduce Bias in Criminal Justice—Do They?

February 23, 2023

Photo: Photo of the "After Roe and Dobbs: Seeking Reproductive Justice in the Next Fifty Years" event. A panel of speakers are seated at a long white table at the front of a large room. A speaker stands at a podium to the right of the table and a large projector screen hangs down behind them all, showing the screen with a slide that is title "Medical Ethics & Pregnant Patients". A small crowd of people are seated in front of the panel and speaker as the audience.

Health & Medicine

50 Years After Roe v. Wade, What Do the Next 50 Years Look Like?

January 26, 2023

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Voices & Opinion

POV: As Someone Who Identifies as Part of the LGBTQIA+ Community, Passage of the Respect for Marriage Act Feels Deeply Personal to Me

December 20, 2022

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Animal Rights

Your Bacon Shouldn’t Be the Product of Animal Cruelty, Says Animal Rights Activist and LAW Alum

December 1, 2022

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Business & Law

Is America’s Labor Movement on the Upswing?

November 23, 2022

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Academics

BU Launches New Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Major

October 24, 2022

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Books

School of Law Expert: Software Enables Innovation, Except When It Doesn’t

October 17, 2022

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Social Media

Kim Kardashian, Sponcon, and the Rules of Being an Influencer

October 5, 2022

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Latinx Researchers

Seven BU Latinx Researchers Making a Difference

October 3, 2022

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Business Problems

Comm Ave Starbucks Strike Ends: Does That Mean Strikes Work?

September 22, 2022

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Racism

Six Decades after Reverse Freedom Rides, Ugly History Repeats

September 22, 2022

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Student Loans

Would Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Survive a Court Challenge?

August 26, 2022

Would Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Survive a Court Challenge?