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DEPARTMENTS 2 In Limine 3 Behind the Columns 4 In Brief IO Gallery II Legal Currents THE VAGARIES OF GLOBAL LAWMAKING: Taxation plows new ground JUDICIAL PRECEDENTS AND SETBACKS: ' checkered history of racial equality WHICH WAY WILL THE WIND BLOW? Aesthetics, alternative energy at odds in wind power debate 28 Faculty SCHOLAR'S FORUM: FEATliRES Reforming corporate law PROFILE: Larry Cunningham Public Life and the Law ACADEMIC VITAE An interview with candidate '76. 37 Esquire Eye Spy ALUMNI NEWS 16 CLASS NOTES Welcome to the Orwellian world of workplace surveillance. By Frederick S. Lane III '88 49 Report on Giving 20 Good Sports 68 In Closing Robert Martin '02 has staked his future as a sports agent as much on players' integrity as on their RBIs. By Tiffany Wilding- White 24 Through the Looking Glass ~l \ In its first strategic plan in 75 years, Be Law builds on strengths to chart a course for the future. By Vicki Sanders

On the Cover: Illustration by Barrie Maguire On the Back Cover: 2003 Race Ipsa Loquitur by Justin Allardyce Knight

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FA LL / WINTER 2003 A Propitious Time VOLUME 12 NUMBER 1 Dean John H. Garvey

The many ways to celebrate our 75th anniversary Editor in Ch i ef Vicki Sanders

oston College Law School next fall will welcome a special group of Associate Editors new students, the Class of 2007, aka the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary April Otterberg '06 B Tiffany Wilding-White Class. Their progress through law school, paralleling that of the first class, which entered in 1929, will be marked by three years of schol­ Contributing Editor arly and alumni events and commemorations and will culminate at the Deborah J. Wakefield Law School's three-quarter-century commencement in 2007.

"BC Law School came out of nowhere and went from being nonexis­ Contributing Writers tent to being top ranked in an incredibly short period of time," says Holly English '83 Professor Daniel R. Coquillette, chair of the Law School's Seventy-Fifth Michael O'Donnell '04 Anniversary Committee. "Not only that, no one as young as we are is Ron Powers ranked where we are." BC Law's twenty-second-place ranking among David Reich American law schools by US News & World Report makes it the youngest Jane Whitehead of the magazine's top twenty-five picks. "It's time for some self-congratu­ Nathan Winegar '06 lation," Coquillette rightly says. Jeri Zeder The congratulations will take various forms during the anniversary's three-year time span. One subcommittee is planning colloquia, symposia, Intern and other scholarly programming to highlight the Law School's academic Stephanie Hauser strengths. Another committee is investigating ways to acknowledge the achievements of alumni and friends, and a series of social events involving Art Director the entire Law School community is being planned. A publisher has been Susan Callaghan selected to produce an illustrated history of the schools' first sevenry­ five years (see "Coll