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Boston College Law School Magazine Spring 1993 Boston College Law School Boston College Law School Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School Boston College Law School Magazine 4-1-1993 Boston College Law School Magazine Spring 1993 Boston College Law School Follow this and additional works at: http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/bclsm Part of the Legal Education Commons Recommended Citation Boston College Law School, "Boston College Law School Magazine Spring 1993" (1993). Boston College Law School Magazine. Book 2. http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/bclsm/2 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Boston College Law School Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. PUBLICATION NOTE E DITOR IN CHIEF/PUBLICATION D IREC.TOR Amy S. DerBedrosian SENIOR EDITOR Brian P. Lutch Associate D ea n, Administration PHOTOGRAPHERS Sarah Hood, Sue Owrutsky, David Oxron (photos on pages 17, 20 courtesy of The British Tourist Aurhority) DESIGN CONSULTANT Stewart Monderer Design, Inc. For additional information or questions about Boston College Law School Magazine, pl ease contact Amy S. D erBedrosian, Boston College Law School 885 Centre Street, Newton, MA 02159 (617) 552·3935 Copyright 1993, Boston College Law School. All publication ri ghts reserved. Opinions expressed in Boston College Law School Magazine do not necessa rily refl ect the views of Boston College Law School or Boston College. On the Cover: !tria Pyle Fami '87 and james P.D. Fami '86. who WI01e a book on legal and other refonns in Poland, are represen121ive of Law SdIoaI -ni, faculty. and students with international interes1s. SPRING 1993 VOLUME 1 N U MBER 2 F EAT U RES A Dean for All Seasons BOSTON Teacher, scholar, lawyer, leader - Daniel R. Coquillette steps down 7 COLLEGE as Dean o/Boston College Law SchooL LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE Building an International Vision 10 Boston College Law School takes a place in the global society. A Legal Experience Like No Other 17 The Law School's London Program offers unique international learning. Ties to Foreign Lands 21 Students' international experience spam the globe as well as numerous legal and other interests. Working the World from Washington International law and the nation's capital go hand-in-hand for Boston College Law School alumni. Testing the Patterns Proftssor Robert H Smith reveals how computer technology offers 33 a new perspective on United States Supreme Court decisions. DEPARTMENTS IN BRIEF 2 FACULTY NEWS AND NOTES 40 ALUMNI NEWS AND NOTES 44 Aviam Soifer Named Dean of Boston College Law School I AI viam Soifer has been appointed as the next Dean of Boston College Law School and will assume his new position in July. Upon naming the new Dean, Boston College President J. Donald Monan, S.]., noted, "I am confident that Dean Soifer brings a commitment to schol­ arship and a concern for the distinctive values of collegiality and of quality in legal education that will advance the Law School even further." Soifer has been a professor at Boston University brief School of Law, where he has taught in the areas of constitutional law and legal history and has served as the chair of administrative committees responsible for the curriculum and academic appointments, promotions, and tenuredecisions. Prior to 1980, Soifer was a member of the law Aviam Soifer, the new Dean of Boston College Law School faculty at the University of Connecticut. He also was a law clerk for United States Judge Jon O. Newman of the District of Connecticut. Association of American Law Schools (AALS), for Soifer has published extensively on the subjects which he has fulfilled administrative roles on several of constitutional law and American legal history. committees. He has served on the board ofgovernors His most recent scholarship includes the articles of the Society ofAmerican Law Teachers since 1982 "Reflections on the 40th Anniversary ofH urst' s and has been a member of the board of directors of Growth of American Law," 11 Law & Social the American Society for Legal Hisrory and the Inquiry 161 (1992), and "On Being Overly board of editors of the Law and History Review. He Discrete and Insular: Judicial Scrutiny ofGroups also has organized the National Robert Cover in the Anglo-American Tradition," 48 Wash. & Memorial Public Interest Conferences since 1988. Lee L. Rev. 381 (1991). Currently, he is Soifer holds a B.A. inAmerican studies, a master's completing a book titled Keeping Company: The degree in urban studies, and alD. degree, all from Substance ofPluralism in American Law. Yale University. Soifer has been active in a number of legal A resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Soifer professional organizations, including the is married and has two children. _ Law Student Behind Passage of State Legislation I AI person is riding a horse. The horse is stung According to Vanderzanden, the new legislation, by a bee or startled by a honking car horn. which affects all but the racing industry, both codifies The horse reacts, and the rider is injured. Should the Massachusetts common law definition of this person be able to sue the horse's owner or negligence and specifies instances of horse-induced handler? injury in which compensation is appropriate. In This question now has been answered in legitimate cases of negligence, liability is not limited; Massachusetts, thanks in part to the legal research at the same time, equestrians are protected from and oral testimony of Danielle Vanderzanden frivolous lawsuits. '93. Her efforts helped bring about passage of In the scenario described above, the person would House Bill 3767, equine liability legislation filed not be entitled to compensation because the injury by the Massachusetts Farm Bureau and signed could not have been predicted or prevented. But into law in October 1992. As Vanderzanden until House Bill 3767 passed, this conclusion was explains, "The legislation simply says that if not clearcut. Vanderzanden needed to delve into inj ury results from the inherent dangers ofriding, nearly 200 years of Massachusetts equine liability a person can't be compensated. If it results from law before finding common law from the early the negligence of a professional, then you can be 1800s stating that horses are inherently dangerous. compensated. " Furthermore, she found few cases to draw upon for 2 BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE precedent; frequently, insurance companies Conference Spotlights Population, Consumption Issues merely paid the injured person and raised subscriber premiums. As a result, those in the equine industry faced skyrocketing III ttook 100 years - from 1830 to 1930 people; Professor Kishore Mandyan ofT ufts insurance costs which threatened their L!J - for the world's population to ex­ University, who is researching the relation­ financial survival; some were choosing the pand from one to two billion; today, world ship between contemporary institutions and risky option of having no insurance at all. population increases by a billion in a decade international environmental inequality; and Vanderzanden became involved in the or less, and six billion people are expected to Keith Winston, a staff scientist with the issue because of the industry's dilemma and inhabit the earth by 1995. In Africa, growth Environmen tal Defense Fund, an her lifelong devotion to horses. Until she is even more rapid, and 29 nations on that organization which focuses on economically heard from Professor Zygmunt J.B. Plater continent will be unable to feed all of their viable solutions to environmental problems. that the independent study he was ptoposing citizens by the year 2000. The final segment of the conference to her concerned horses, she didn't thinkshe So said Werner Fornos, President ofThe considered solutions to the international could add another project to a schedule Population Institute in Washington, DC concerns presented throughout the day. already filled with the Boston College Third and keynote speaker at Boston College Law Panelists were Yale Law School Professor World Law Journal, moot court School's conference titled Sustainable Lynn Berat, also a consultant to the Ford competition, classes, and employment with Solutions: Population, Consumption, and Foundation on SouthAfrican and Namibian a law firm. Butwhen horses were mentioned, Culture. Coordinated by the Conservation issues; Jeffrey Jacobs, a staffscientist wi th the she responded, "In that case, there may be Research Group and co-sponsored by nine Natural Hazards Resource Center who time." additional student organizations as part of concentrates on water resource management Vanderzanden jokingly says, ''1' m atleast the Law School's Diversity Month activities and is studying flooding in Asia; and as serious an equestrienne as I am a law (Page 6), the day-long conference provided Frederick Smith, President of the student." She recalls getting her first pony at a forum for discussion of population and Competitive Enterprises Institute and an age three, and she was a riding instructor by consumption issues, their cultural contexts, advocate of free-market environmentalism, the time she turned 16. Since that time, she and policies which could be applied to which argues that private actions are most has competed internationally, spending twO individual or all nations. effective in promoting long-term years between college and law school as a "We have become an interdependent environmental responsibility. full-time equestrienne. Even as a law world, and a whole new age of law is ahead The conference concluded with a student, Vanderzanden continued to of us," said Fornos, whose work in the field roundtable discussion of the day's issues compete. ofpopulation planning earned him the 1991 featuring interaction between the speakers "I did the independent study because the Humanist of the Year Award given by the and audience members. _ horse industry is very important to me, and American Humanist Association.
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