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Boston College Law School Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School Boston College Law School Magazine 10-1-2009 BC Law Magazine Fall/Winter 2009 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, "BC Law Magazine Fall/Winter 2009" (2009). Boston College Law School Magazine. Book 35. http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/bclsm/35 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]. helping the wrongly deported | meet the new faculty | report on giving BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE | FALL / WINTER 2009 Student anjali nair ’12 wrote a winning essay Introducing our enhanced online magazine www.bc.edu/bclawmagazine gettingstudent essays that made the case for in admission BCBC LawNetLawNet make the connection Want a paperless way to stay connected? BC Law’s new alumni online community allows our graduates to connect www.bc.edu/lawnet like never before. But please, don’t take our word for it. Having trouble signing on? Contact [email protected] Register now and experience some of the exciting features for yourself ! Alumni Directory Career Resources My Profile Event Registration Class Notes Chapter Webpages Yellow Pages Try our new Facebook application! Learn more at www.bc.edu/lawnet ad2.indd 1 12/4/09 4:28:45 PM Contents F a l l / w i n T e r 2 0 0 9 V o l u m e 1 8 | n u m b e r 1 DEPARTMENTS 2 In Limine 3 Behind the Columns 4 In Brief 10 Legal Currents Civil Unions for All A provocative option JUvenile JUstiCe er SS Lessons from Israel re 24 ST 30 Point of View clyde berg 31 Faculty sCholAr’s forUm FEATURES William Homans’ biography profile: Kent Greenfield 12 Winning Words BenChmArks admission essays that scored big. ACAdemiC vitAe The stories of seven 1ls. 38 Generations 18 A Worthy Adversary 39 Esquire a boston college law School program AlUmni neWs becomes the first and only legal advocate ClAss notes for the wrongly deported By Jeri Zeder 58 Light the World Campaign Report 24 In the Eye of the Beholder 63 Report on Giving a portfolio of photographs by clyde bergstresser, who has traveled the globe 80 In Closing for thirty years capturing the beauty of the world’s people and places Photographs by Clyde D. Bergstresser ’74 a 43 T uzi camara On the Cover: Photograph by Jacob Silberberg ’12 S www.bc.edu/lawalumni 1 [ I n L I m I n e ] f a L L / w i n t e r 2 0 0 9 it takes a Village VOLU m e 1 8 n U m B e r 1 D e a n John H. garvey For a small place, we sure make a difference Editor in Chief Vicki Sanders ([email protected]) e have grown accustomed to the BC Law community’s capacity to achieve great things. the accomplishments are even more im- Art Director Wpressive when size is taken into consideration. Counting alumni, annette trivette students, faculty, and staff, we number about 12,000 people, the equiva- lent population of a modest-sized town. Contributing Editors and yet, among the recent successes covered in this issue of BC Law Deborah J. wakefield Magazine, several have far-reaching impact. they make boundaries of tiffany wilding-white various kinds—geographical, philosophical, social, economic—disappear and help unite us with fellow communities everywhere. Contributing Writers the work of BC Law’s Post-Deportation Human rights Project Cynthia atoji (PDHrP), founded in 2005, is a prime example. it is the first and only le- Jeffrey Bears ’09 gal advocacy project in the country to focus on deportees. as reporter Jeri michael Connolly ’09 zeder notes in her story on Page 18, “its charge is so novel that the legal Chad Konecky tools to represent deportees don’t even exist yet: there’s no such thing as David reich post-deportation law. the PDHrP is inventing it.” ali russell ’11 though the students whose admission essays we publish on Page 12 Jane whitehead have their lifetimes ahead of them, their stories of personal struggle, sac- Jeri zeder rifice, and achievement already mark them as leaders. their work with orphaned children, at the Southern Poverty Law Center, in the military, Photographers and for women’s rights speak to mature sensibilities. in their wisdom, Suzi Camarata they are here to obtain the skills that can turn those sensibilities Charles gauthier into powerful tools for the greater good. if one person can make a Jason Liu ite H difference in the world, then the impact of these inquiring 1Ls is a w - magnification to be anticipated. Jacob Silberberg ’12 ing LD Dana Smith wi elsewhere in this issue, academic Dean michael Cassidy intro- Y duces five faculty (Page 34). the teaching and writing of Daniel Design & Printing TIFFAN Kanstroom, intisar rabb, Paulo Barrozo, richard albert, and Dan- iel Lyons already throw a wide net over international and compara- imperial Company tive law circles, and their sphere of influence will grow as, year after year, Boston College Law School of they send forth 280 new BC Law graduates. newton, massachusetts 02459-1163, Successes have been felt internally as well. this fall, the first alumni publishes BC Law Magazine two times a year: in January and June. BC Law assembly under the reconstituted alumni Board was held. the gathering Magazine is printed by imperial Company showcased an engaged volunteer base of some 900 and celebrated the in west Lebanon, nH. we welcome readers’ comments. Contact us by phone dialog between active alumni and Law School entities such as admissions, at 617-552-2873; by mail at Boston Career Services, and advancement. new levels of commitment have College Law School, Barat House, 885 Centre Street, newton, MA 02459-1163; resulted in expanded chapter activities, job networking opportunities, or by email at [email protected]. Copy- prospective student recruitment, and the like. See Page 43. right © 2009, Boston College Law Last but not least is the exciting launch of an interactive, online School. all publication rights reserved. Opinions expressed in BC Law version of BC Law Magazine (www.bc.edu/bclawmagazine). this Magazine do not necessarily reflect the digital twin allows us to offer more photographs, slide shows, videos, views of Boston College Law School or Boston College. and content-rich links as you flip through the virtual pages. Vicki Sanders Editor in Chief 2 BC Law magazine | fall / winter 2009 [ B e h I n[ dF at c h u e L tc yo ]L u m n s ] rethinking accreditation ABA proposals have broad implications by Dean John Garvey here’s something really interesting going on within the american Bar association, and it could have a significant impact on legal education. Law schools—like uni- versities, and, for that matter, elementary and secondary schools—are subject to accreditation requirements. the United States Department of education recognizes Taccrediting agencies and approves their standards. of Legal education and a member of the Standards for law schools, the accrediting agency is the aBa. review Committee. there was a surprising degree it has a fairly elaborate set of Standards and rules of unanimity among the deans. of Procedure for approval of Law Schools. and it we all agreed that the use of outcome measures is currently in the process of rewriting them. could be a welcome change. a focus on inputs can there’s nothing surprising about that. the lead the aBa to hold up accreditation over things department requires accrediting agencies to review like the number of adjuncts in evening courses, their standards periodically. the interesting thing the amount of library shelf space, and the terms of is that the aBa has decided to follow a new pat- faculty contracts. a shift to outcome measures, if tern. Historically, its accreditation inspections have it lets schools reach their goals in their own ways, focused on inputs: the law school’s facilities, library could lead to more variety, more experimentation, and information resources, faculty size, admissions and lower costs in legal education. requirements, student support services, academic we also shared a number of serious concerns. calendar, administrative structure, etc. the new the first relates to the outcomes being measured. standards propose to measure outputs. Like the the current draft proposes that these include no Child Left Behind act of 2001, the reform rests “knowledge and understanding of the substantive on the idea that we should define the basic skills law [and] proficiency as an entry level practitioner entry-level practitioners need, and assess individual in . other professional skills.” Schools are asked students on a regular schedule to see if they are to identify the “other skills” required “for effective, acquiring those skills. responsible, and ethical participation in the legal this portends a big change in the way we do profession,” but the set must include “trial and business. for the last fifteen years law schools, appellate advocacy, alternative methods of dispute deans, and the association of american Law resolution, counseling, interviewing, negotiating, Schools have not been as actively involved in the factual investigation, organization and management affairs of the aBa Section of Legal education as of legal work, and drafting”(proposed Standard they once were.1 in an effort to stimu- 302(b)). these are certainly useful late participation in this important skills.