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Boston College Law School Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School Boston College Law School Magazine 10-1-1998 Boston College Law School Magazine Fall 1998 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 Fall 1998" (1998). Boston College Law School Magazine. Book 12. http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/bclsm/12 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]. P UB LICATION NOTE BOSTON COLLEGE LAw SCHOOL INTERIM D EAN James S. Rogers DIRECroR OF INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT Deborah Blackmore Abrams EDITOR IN C HIEF Vicki Sanders CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Vijaya Andra Suzanne DeMers Michael Higgins Carla McDonald Kim Snow Abby Wolf Boston College Law School Magazine On the Cover: welcomes readers' comments. Yo u may comac[ us by phone at (6 17) 552-2873; by mail at Photographer Susan Biddle captures Boston Coll ege Law School, Barat House, 885 Centre Street, Newton. MA 02459- 11 63; Michael Deland in the autumn sunlight or bye-mail at [email protected]. at the FOR Memorial in Washington, DC. Copyright 1998, Boston Coll ege Law School. All publicatio n rights reserved. Opinions expressed in Boston College Law School Magazine do not necessar ily refl ecr the views of Boston College Law School or Boston College. FALL 1998 VOLUM E 7 NUMBER 1 The Land Lords r6 Four entrepreneurs stake their claims in real estate and watch their spirits-and fortunes-soar. By Vicki Sanders 30 Years in the Trenches 20 A pioneering clinical program comes ofage and discovers that 'the times they are a' changin: ' By Julie Michaels David v. Goliath: A Modern Tale of Courage Michael Deland '69 takes on the giants ofspy technology and beats them with old-foshioned values 24 By Maria Karagianis Inoculating Against the Financial Flu How to stop the spread ofmonetary crises in emerging-market countries By Professsor Cynthia Lichtenstein How the Law School's Endowment Compares INSIDE BACK COVER 9 12 DEPARTMENTS IN BRIEF 2 FACULTY NEWS AND NOTES 43 ALUMNI NEWS AND NOTES 32 GIVING REPORT 53 HAPPEN.NGS low in their footsteps, ro tional, and private law "be the generation that issues related ro the euro. Campus lectures, chooses ro accept the Andenes was legal advisor visitors, symposia mantle of leadership and ro the European Bank engagement." Richardson for Reconstruction and applauded the Law Development and has Compiled by Carla McDonald School's long-term com wrirren at least twenry mitment ro international legal books, including human rights and added, the textbook for his class: A Citizen of the World ''As young lawyers from European Economic and a prestigious law school, Monetary Union: The Ambassador Bill Richard you have unique opportu Institutional Framework son, US Representative nities ro ensure that your published by Kluwer Law ro the United Nations, voices are heard and that International in 1997. encouraged graduates ro adherence ro the interna make the preservation of tional rule of law is more human rights a prioriry than words on a page, Flexing Legal Muscles when he spoke ro the but instead, a fact of life for millions." Professor Robert Berry was the moderaror of a Sports Law Forum at The Euro Firsthand the Law School last April addressing opportunities During the first four and developments in the weeks of the fall semester, field. Speakers included former New England for the Center of Euro Patriots stars Gavin Veris pean Law at King's Col '98 and John Hannah lege in England, taught a and Bosron Celrics execu mini-course at the Law tive vice president of cor School on the new single porate development M. L. European currency, the Carr. Carr spoke ro stu euro. The course empha dents from the perspective sized the private law of management, while Ambassador Bill Richardson urges rhe graduating Class of '98 to implications of the new Hannah and Yeris talked think globally. currency and covered the about sports agents, their Bosron Coll ege Law basic economic, institu- personal experiences as School Class of 1998 at their commencement last May. Richardson empha sized the United States' responsibilities as a world leader and urged the graduates ro be "not just citizens of America, but ci tizens of the world." He listed many promi nent Law School alumni who have gone on ro public service careers, and used law ro "make a dif ference around me globe," and he challenged the Moderator Professor Robert Berry (r) wirh M. L. Carr, John Hannah, current graduates ro fol- and Gavin Veris '98 at rhe Law School's Sports Law Forum. 2 BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCH OOL MAGAZ INE / FA LL 1998 players, and the legali ties Panthers, who escaped of contract negotiations. from prison and was given political asylum in Cuba. After an introduction by Campaigning for assistant professor Anthony Human Rights Farley, Rolando told the gathering that her film is Tony Varona '92, chief dedicated to " ... all women counsel for the Human who struggle for a better Rights Campaign in world." Plans are under Washington, DC, spoke way for the film to tour at the Law School last other cities in the US. spring in a forum cospon sored by srudent groups LAMBDA and PILE Prosecutions and Politics Varona shared his experi ences as a public interest Timothy Flaherty '90, lawyer in both the private who has prosecuted more Michael Puzo 77 is among this year's featured speakers in the and public sectors and than 100 jury cases, spoke Dean's Luncheon Series. as an openly gay Cuban in September to students American attorney. in the Criminal Justice Passing the Torch senior vice president of Clinic about his experi National Association of ences as a Norfolk County The Office of Career Ser Security Dealers (NASD) Through an Exile's Eyes Assistant District Attor vices held a public interest Individual Investors in ney. Flaherty, who also law reception in October, Washington, DC; Marie Director Gloria Rolando attended Boston College so that students could St. Fleur '87, chief of of Cuba visited the Law High School and Boston hear from alumni who the Unemployment and School last spring for a College, was defeated in a work in the public sector. Fraud Division of the special screening of her hotly contested primary Fearured speakers includ Massachusetts Attorney movie Eyes ofthe Rainbow. race among three candi ed Mary Connolly '70, General's Office; and Jen The documentary focuses dates for Middlesex Coun executive director of the nifer French '90, a special on the life of Assara ty District Attorney. Fla Volunteer Lawyers Project agent with the Federal Shakur of the Black Liber herty won approximately in Boston; and Charles Bureau of Investigation ation Army and Black 25 percent of the vote. Walker '78, chairman of in Chicago, Illinois. the Massachusetts Com mission Against Discrimi nation. Crossing the International Divide Lunching with ... Hendrik de Groot, an associate professor of cor The Dean's Luncheon porate law at the Univer Series, which gives stu sity of Amsterdam, the dents the opportunity to Netherlands, visited the join Interim Dean James Law School on an infor Rogers and distinguished mal basis this fall. He graduates for informal dis attended classes on corpo cussions on topical issues, rate and business law continues this academic and met with faculty mem year with the following bers who taught in those guests: Michael Puzo '77, areas. His opportunity to a partner specializing in meet and discuss shared trusts and estates at research interests with fac Timothy Flaherty '90, who competeo in a three-way primary race for Hemenway and Barnes in ulty was arranged by Pro Middlesex Distnct Attomey, spoke to students about lite as a prosecutor Boston; Michael Jones '76, fessor Dan Kanstroom. FALL 1998 / BOSTON COLLEG E LAW SC HOOL MAGAZINE 3 ject, an organization at Carnegie Mellon-he ABALSD is proving ro the Law School that trains began attending meetings, be an excellent training students how ro help vic but soon discovered that ground for a man with tims of domestic violence, student involvement had political aspirations, says organized a team for the dropped off since his Willis. "It's trained me event. Those who partici cousin's time. how ro lobby, interact, pated in the 5K walk were work with a constituent Meredith Swisher '00, Since winning the guber base ... and how ro deal Melissa Conroy '00, Sarah narorial election, and hav with issues in an appro Weyland '00, Jenette ing served as a regional priate fashion through Mathai '01, Allison Puri representative for the Law the legislative process." '01, Corey Denenberg School's chapter, Willis '01, and Assistant to the has been busy supervising Willis' goals for his one Dean for Students Fred the lieutenant governors year term of office are ro Enman, S.J., '78. The he's recruited from among increase membership in team raised $550. _ the First Circuit's fourteen ABALSD, particularly schools in New England. among women and He has also been the force minorities; ro make the behind the board of gov Law School a site for the Gil Childers '8 I, a chief prosecutor in the World Trade Center bombing ernors' passage of a resolu Volunteer Income Tax case, visited the Low School in November. The Making tion establishing National Assistance Program that of a PolitiCian Diversity Day, ro be aids the elderly and poor ATerrorist's Nemesis celebrated on campuses with tax issues; and ro H .