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SUPREME COURT Party BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE Favors WINTER 2018 Litigator Walks BC.EDU/BCLAWMAGAZINE a Fine Line in Gerrymandering Case

GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT Democracy in Doubt Scholarly Crusader Mounts Campaign to Protect Freedoms

BUSINESS LAW Start-Up Pitfalls Growing Up Is Hard to Do in Unicorn SMALL Culture ENOUGH TO JAIL VERA ’90 and CHANTERELLE SUNG ’04, subjects of an Oscar-nominated documentary about big government’s attack on their small family bank, ABACUS, after the 2008 financial crisis, recount the thrashing they endured. BC Law Magazine

THE WRITE WAY

The eloquent admission essays of five new 1Ls—from left, Danielle Richmond, Samuel Tincher, Jaegun Lee, Erika Craven, and Jorge Toledo. Page 28

Photograph by DIANA LEVINE Contents WINTER 2018 VOLUME 26 / NUMBER 1

Clockwise, from top left, Features Attorney Paul M. Smith; Talyor Green ’18; the Creedon family; and wrongful convictions.

20 16 Scapegoats Just what lay behind the New York DA’s aggressive targeting of a small China- town bank in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis? Abacus Federal Savings, a family-run community institution, became the sole bank in America indicted 18 for practices that brought the mortgage industry—and the economy—to its knees. The giant culprits were deemed too big to fail. But Abacus was seen as just right: small enough to jail. Or so it seemed. Alumnae 10 Vera and Chanterelle Sung relive their family’s saga. 42 By Jeri Zeder

28 Foremost 8 Policy BC Law launches Esquire Getting In 2 In Limine From the Editor. new initiatives; Carmen 42 Generations Five 1Ls share the essays Ortiz provides insight into The Creedon family. that earned them entrance 3 For the Record life as a US Attorney. into law school. Updates and contributors. 43 Class Notes 10 Candid Taylor Green ’18 . 4 Behind the Columns 48 Alumni News 36 Members of an immigrant 12 Faculty Scholarship The Freedom Fighter community keep faith in Professor Daniel Lyons 50 Click Raised in the crucible the rule of law. argues zero-rated plans are Reunion Weekend 2017. Communist Romania, By Dean Vincent Rougeau good for consumers. scholar Vlad Perju 52 Advancing Excellence mounts an inspired global 14 In the Field Xiomara Corral The special relationship campaign against the Docket ’87, Tom Dale ’82, and four between donors and their foes of constitutional 6 In Brief Senator Edward other alumni on the job. named professors. democracy. By Jeri Zeder Markey ’72 vows to go down fighting to help consum- 16 Brainstorm Dean Vincent 55 The 2016-2017 On the Cover Vera ’90 and ers; Federal committee Rougeau and SCOTUS Giving Report Chanterelle Sung ’04 are photo- convenes to establish litigator Paul M. Smith. graphed in the Chinatown standards for expert testi- 68 In Closing For start-ups, community where their small bank, Abacus, is located. mony; plus news and events 18 Evidence Examining maturity is spelled ‘IPO.’ Photograph by Tony Luong around the academy. wrongful convictions. By Professor Renee M. Jones

Photographs, from top, DANA SMITH; DIANA LEVINE; BRIAN STAUFFER; CAITLIN CUNNINGHMAM Winter 2018 BC LAW MAGAZINE 1 IN LIMINE Foremost

Student Essays Offer Network, we don’t have to take this anymore. authors’ contemplation as well as that of the Hope that there is a way to modulate the admission officers deciding their fate. The best Better Tomorrows din and rehumanize the national dialog lies, personal statements create a silent dialog be- not surprisingly, with the young, in particu- tween the two parties that avoids the rhetori- This is a time when words are being lar with the kind of men and women who cal, eliminates the hubris, and summons the twisted into all sorts of horrible comprise BC Law’s newest cohort, the Class best in human nature—the truth. uses—political propaganda, “fake” of 2020. A review of the admission essays “Getting In” is BC Law Magazine’s third news, racist screeds…the list goes on. Not that submitted by the 250 1Ls now enrolled, was, time presenting the writings of an entering such literary and verbal barbarism is anything in its way, a revelation. class. The five voices heard in this issue new; history shows these methods to be lethal The students have committed to three belong to Jaegun Lee, Danielle Richmond, across the ages. But this is our age, and to para- years of hard labor in the study of the law, an Jorge Toledo, Samuel Tincher, and Erika phrase Howard Beale’s speech in the movie arduous task by any measure. These are not Craven. Their paths to law school could young people looking for the easy way out of not be more different, neither could their anything. Rather, as the personal statements histories, personalities, or dreams. They’ve of the majority of them demonstrate—and BC been insiders and outsiders, they’ve suffered Law alumni know intuitively—they are charac- indignities and received admiration, they’ve teristically inclined to make the world a better been outspoken and quietly effective, they’ve place, to find common ground, to root out the experienced injustices and championed bad and replace it with the good. causes. As Jaegun Lee says, quoting a Korean It is a sweet irony that perhaps the most proverb: “You turn dark in a dark place; telling requirement of their law school ap- white in a white place.” plication is a one-thousand-word narrative. Clearly, these essayists’ brains work over- Amid the quantifiable metrics of LSAT and time, and so do their hearts. They deserve the GPA scores, the essay clears a space for the last word. See page 28.

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WINTER 2018 on behalf of child victims is credited with attorney Jan Hasselman ’97 has repre- VOLUME 26 / NUMBER 1 sparking the Senate investigation that led sented the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. DEAN to the current proposal, was featured in Their story, “Awakening the Great Spirit,” Vincent Rougeau an article in the Summer 2017 issue. appeared in the Summer 2017 issue. EDITOR If the bill passes, and closes a loophole The court ordered the completion of Vicki Sanders in the Communications Decency Act that oil response plans at Lake Oahe, an inde- [email protected] has allowed websites to function with pendent audit of DAPL’s permit compli- CREATIVE DIRECTOR Sex Trafficking Bill Progresses impunity, Montgomery’s actions—along ance, and the filing of regular reports on Robert F. Parsons A recent lobbying effort by Google to un- with those described in the story of fellow any incidents or repairs on the pipeline. SEVEN ELM dermine the passage of the Stop Enabling advocates Penny Venetis ’89 and Debra sevenelm.com Sex Traffickers Act, a bipartisan proposal Brown Steinberg ’79—may soon pay off. Correction CONTRIBUTING EDITOR to remove protections for websites that Michael Amoruso ’97 practices in NY, Deborah J. Wakefield promote the exploitation of children, was Sioux Fight on in Dakota Pipeline Case CT, and is licensed in MA—it was wrong-

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS a setback, but one that hasn’t halted the Citing the recent Keystone oil spill in ly stated that he practices in another James Barasch ’18 bill’s progress. On January 10, the legisla- South Dakota, a federal court on Decem- state in the Summer 2017 issue. Indeed, Venus Chui ’18 tion was placed on the Senate calendar ber 4 imposed interim measures over the he is a 2010-2017 New York Metro Super Phil Goudemans for consideration. The work of John ongoing operation of the Dakota Access Lawyer and a 2011-2017 Top 25 West- Leah Herscovici ’18 Montgomery ’75, who through lawsuits pipeline, according to Earthjustice, whose chester Super Lawyer. Renee Jones Chad Konecky Jaegun Lee ’20

Brendan McKinnon ’19 CONTRIBUTORS Margie Palladino ’85 David Reich Maura King Scully Jane Whitehead Jeri Zeder

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS A. Richard Allen Joe Ciardiello Erika Craven ’20 Caitlin Cunningham Adam DeTour Matt Kalinowski Diana Levine Tony Luong Danielle Rivard Lee Pellegrini Jeri Zeder Tony Luong Diana Levine Maura King Scully Dana Smith WRITER Zeder, JD, has been PHOTOGRAPHER Boston-based, PHOTOGRAPHER A Boston-based WRITER Scully is an award-winning Christopher Soldt, MTS, BC contributing to BC Law Magazine Luong received an MFA from the advertising and editorial photog- writer who specializes in higher Brian Stauffer since 1998. Her articles include the Massachusetts College of Art and rapher, Levine has photographed education and is a regular “In story of an alumnus who won the Design. His work has appeared in many notable personalities: Barack the Field” contributor to BC Law PRINTING release of Guantánamo prisoners, various magazines such as Bloom- Obama, Bill Clinton, Ed Sheeran, Magazine. For this issue, she Lane Press a community enterprise program berg, BusinessWeek, Dwell, New Usher, Patti LaBelle, One Direc- learned a lot about Rolls-Royce— Boston College Law School of for minority-owned start-ups, and York Times, Wall Street Journal tion, New Kids on the Block, Alicia including that the company no Newton, Massachusetts 02459-1163, a human rights case instigated by Magazine, and Wired. When the Keys, Ludacris, and more. Her longer makes cars—from Tom publishes BC Law Magazine two student activists that went all the time is right, he enjoys making a clients include Converse, Spotify, Dale ’82, executive vice president times a year: in January and June. BC Law Magazine is printed by way to the Supreme Court. Her quality negroni. Photographing Rolling Stone, Billboard, and MTV. and general counsel of Rolls- Lane Press in Burlington, VT. We two feature stories in this issue at Abacus Federal Savings Bank For this issue, she photographed Royce North America. Keeping welcome readers’ comments. Contact touch on prosecutorial overreach in Manhattan’s Chinatown for this five 1Ls whose admission essays pace with financial securities law us by phone at 617-552-2873; by and challenges to constitutional issue was not only inspiring but helped them get into BC Law expert Xiomara Corral ’87 offered mail at Boston College Law School Magazine, 885 Centre Street, democracy. “What I took away also very rewarding (page 20). (page 28). “It was a blast photo- a glimpse into why her “the grass Newton, MA 02459-1163; or by email from my interviews with Profes- “Being Vietnamese and growing graphing this assignment. Within is greener” career approach has at [email protected]. Copyright sor Vlad Perju (page 36) is that up with my parents owning a seconds of my shoot with Erika paid dividends (stories on pages © 2018, Boston College Law School. All publication rights reserved. perhaps the most important small business similar to Abacus’ Craven, I knew she must be a 14 and 15). As with every issue, check-and-balance on power is primary clientele, I couldn’t help performer, so it didn’t surprise me Scully enjoyed finding out what Opinions expressed in BC Law the self-restraint that those in but feel a sense of solidarity while that she was a Disney on Ice star makes BC Law graduates so suc- Magazine do not necessarily reflect the views of Boston College Law power impose upon themselves. spending the day with the Sung before starting her journey into cessful in a variety of fields. And, School or Boston College. What I learned from alumnae Vera family. I couldn’t be more proud law. I loved hearing about each Kevin Carome ’78, senior manag- and Chanterelle Sung (page 20) of presenting their story to the student’s background and how ing director and general counsel is that, when those in power fail world.” His previous assignment they chose law. I grew up visiting at Invesco Ltd. “made clear that to exercise appropriate restraint, for BC Law Magazine included my Dad (an attorney) at court and if you love what you’re doing, it is up to ordinary people to insist a portrait of visiting professor in his office, so I felt right at home every day offers a new learning that they do.” Martin O’Malley. on the law campus.” opportunity” (page 48).

Winter 2018 BC LAW MAGAZINE 3 BEHIND THE COLUMNS Foremost “Anyone who has been falsely accused and prosecuted for a crime knows what a gut-wrenching and debasing experience it can be, and the Sungs still bear scars from their experience.” DEAN VINCENT ROUGEAU

run by the Sung family and primarily serving the Asian American immigrant community, was the only bank in the United States to be criminally prosecuted after the 2008 financial crisis. The big Wall Street banks—banks that were too big to fail—were bailed out by America’s taxpayers, and their business practices leading up to the crisis received relatively little scrutiny from law enforcement. Abacus bank, however, was Small Enough to Jail— the title of the Oscar-nominated PBS Frontline documentary that tells the tale (see our cover story, page 20). One thing that practicing, and later teaching, financial services regulation taught me is that the financial institutions established to serve recently arrived immigrants were a huge part of the development of the American banking system. “Immigrant savings banks,” as they were once known, supported waves of immigrants throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, and later, small savings and loans and credit unions provided similar opportunities to save and invest. Over time, many of these institutions flourished and merged with other banks, particularly as their early customers gained financial success through their purchases of homes, businesses, and other assets that allowed them to assimilate successfully. So, the founding story of Abacus Bank is an old one. Unfortunately, our nation’s story of immigrant success is also darkened by a history of immigrant exclusion, A Dark Road to Justice xenophobia, and cultural ignorance. If you have not done Members of an immigrant community keep faith in the rule of law. so, I urge you to watch the documentary. It is a deeply BY DEAN VINCENT ROUGEAU disturbing story that, fortunately for the Sungs, has an ending in which justice is served. Anyone who has been People are often surprised to learn that my work in law practice was falsely accused and prosecuted for a crime knows what primarily in the area of financial services regulation. In the late 1980s a debasing experience it can be, and the Sungs still bear and early 1990s, financial services was undergoing rapid change, and scars. But the tale they tell is one of redemption, and ulti- legal work in the area raised key questions about the relative merits mately, a renewed faith in the power of the rule of law. of strict regulatory boundaries that confined financial services to I was extraordinarly proud when the Sungs addressed the 2017 Alumni Assembly. They both spoke eloquently defined spheres of activity, versus a more deregulated, free market and passionately about how their training at BC allowed approach. As we all know, the latter view prevailed, but what did not them to confront the injustice of the situation that they change was the notion that some financial institutions were “too faced, respond with the tools the law provided, and ulti- big to fail” regardless of the regulatory environment. The country mately prevail with their dignity intact and their faith in learned what that meant in 2008, with devastating effect. ¶ This the legal system restored. Vera and Chanterelle Sung are past November, during the reunion weekend, we had the pleasure of outstanding examples of why the work that we do at BC Law is so important and why the values that animate us welcoming two alumnae sisters back to campus, Vera ’90 and Chan- matter. In the world of financial services, Abacus Bank terelle Sung ’04. The Sungs had a dark tale to tell about the cost their was the little guy and the outsider—an easy target. But at family paid in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Abacus Bank, the end of the day, Abacus Bank could be any one of us.

4 BC LAW MAGAZINE Winter 2018 Photograph by SUZI CAMARATA Campus News and Events of Note

IN BRIEF 6 POLICY 8 CANDID 10 FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP 12 IN THE FIELD 14 BRAINSTORM 16 EVIDENCE 18

CHANGE- MAKER

Xiomara Corral ’87, senior attorney at BNY Mellon, admits she’s a quick- change artist: When it comes to jobs, she relishes new challenges and new teams. PAGE 14

Photograph by MATT KALINOWSKI Winter 2018 BC LAW MAGAZINE 5 DOCKET In Brief

Forensic Evidence Goes Under the Judicial Microscope Federal committee convenes to establish standards for expert testimony.

US Senator BY PHIL GLOUDEMANS Edward J. Markey Even as Boston College Law School prepared to host a major forum to discuss and water clean, our financial market sound forensics and expert testimony, events and stable, and our consumers protected from many miles away promised to influence the Defending dangerous products and predatory practices.” conversation. These regulations, Markey noted, are under On October 26, the first day of the two- Regulations pressure through an attack reminiscent of day conference, the Mississippi Supreme Senator Edward Markey ’72 vows Ronald Reagan’s mass deregulation strategy Court vacated the conviction of a man on to go down fighting to help consumers. during his presidency. death row for three murders, citing exculpa- BY DANIELLE RIVARD Markey explained that history is repeating tory DNA testing results and false forensic itself in President Trump’s administration, testimony. Although forensic odonatolo- US Senator Edward Markey ’72 arguing that Trump is using Reagan’s former gists had testified that a bite mark on the invoked the spirit of BC Law during methods to destroy federal agencies respon- man’s wrist matched the bite pattern of one a campus speech in October, part of sible for executing regulatory laws. Markey victim, her saliva sample did not reveal his the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series and elaborated on Trump and Reagan’s tactic of DNA. Similarly, the DNA found in blood co-sponsored by the Rappaport Center for Law appointing “foxes to guard the henhouse,” on the man’s shoe was male, but all three and Public Policy. giving as examples federal regulatory agen- victims were female. “I see my job as working to protect the pub- cies, like the Environmental Protection Popular crime drama television shows lic interest as a Boston College-trained United Agency (EPA) or Department of Energy, being like “CSI” and “Law and Order” depict the States Senator,” Markey said. Raised by his led by officials who want to dissemble their forensic scientists who connect a serial mother and father—a milk man—in a blue col- own agencies from within. killer to a fingerprint, or a bullet fragment lar household in Malden, Markey developed Markey described the “grim reaper” to a gun used in a murder, as seemingly humanistic values and a strong appreciation maneuvers restraining new legislation, such as infallible heroes. But in reality, the scientific for the environment. Trump’s “two for one deal” to cut two regula- methods underpinning forensic investiga- Markey’s speech began with cherished tions for every one passing through the legisla- tions, and the experts who testify, are under nostalgia for the campus and faculty who ture, and starving federal agencies of resources, greater scrutiny as defendants challenge taught him to “make comfortable the afflicted rendering them inert. This presents a problem convictions based on evidence that was later and afflict the comfortable.” His attention today, Markey said, citing as an example the determined to be erroneous. soon turned to the ongoing war on the ‘fourth revocation by the Congressional Review Board Underscoring the issue, an Associated branch of government”—administrative agen- of several regulatory laws concerned with Press story remarked on the “faltering cies—by the Trump Administration. Markey public health and welfare, such as labor abuse confidence in forensic science and how its stressed to students both the threat to the fed- reporting and mine waste dumping. experts describe their findings in court.” US eral agencies that protect the health, safety, Even with the future of multiple federal Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and welfare of Americans and the role lawyers agencies in question, the Senator asserted was quoted in the article as saying, “We will have to play in the oncoming court battles that there is still hope. He said the legal battles must use forensic analysis carefully, but we over the regulatory bodies charged with en- that challenge Trump’s executive orders and must continue to use it.” forcing these regulations. fight the dismantling of American regulation The Judicial Conference Advisory “Up until the 1980s, regulation was not a are the last line of defense. “It will be the law- Committee on Evidence Rules, composed dirty word,” the Senator said in comparing yers who ultimately have to stand up and take of judges, academics, and attorneys from the practices of Presidents Donald Trump each and every one of the decisions to court to around the country, convened at BC Law to and Ronald Reagan. Markey stressed the block and to prevent the harm which will be grapple with Rule 702, which establishes

importance of regulations “that kept our air done,” he said. the federal standards for forensic expert BC MTS, SOLDT, AND CHRISTOPHER LEE PELLEGRINI PAGE: OPPOSITE

6 BC LAW MAGAZINE Winter 2018 Photograph by DANIELLE RIVARD “This session was an extraordinary opportunity for our faculty and students to engage with members of the judiciary from around the nation, and with world-renowned experts in a number of scientific fields related to forensic evidence.” DEAN VINCENT ROUGEAU

Clockwise from top right, Atty. Daniel P. The Symposium on Fo- Collins, Dr. Alice R. rensic Expert Testimony on Isenberg, Professor Daniel Coquillette, and October 27 featured panels the Hon. Shelly Dick. on forensic evidence and on Rule 702 and Daubert—the latter refers to the standard for the admissibili- ty of expert witnesses’ testimony during federal legal proceedings. Daniel Capra, the Reed Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, and reporter to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence, said the committee “heard from distinguished scientists, judges, academics, and practitioners on the role that rulemaking could have in improving the quality of forensic evidence and in minimizing the costs of challenges to expert testimony. The views expressed at the symposium will help to shape the committee’s agenda for the next several years.” “This session was an extraordinary opportunity for our faculty and students to engage with members of the judiciary from around the nation, and with world-renowned experts in a testimony. The committee forwards its advice tific theories with the needs of the US justice number of scientific fields related to forensic to the Standing Committee on Rules and to the system,” said Monan Professor of Law Daniel evidence,” said Dean Vincent Rougeau. “We Judicial Conference of the US courts, which in Coquillette, reporter to the Committee on Rules cannot sufficiently thank our colleague, Dan turn refers new rules to the US Supreme Court. of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Con- Coquillette, for all that he did to bring this “The meeting at BC Law was of the greatest ference of the US. “It was a great honor that we important meeting, and the symposium that importance in reconciling the latest scien- were selected to host this major judicial event.” followed, to Boston College.”

AROUND THE ACADEMY

Yee Mon Htun Burmese human Ilya Shapiro The Cato Institute’s Henry Lee Forensic scientist Gevon Solomon The environ- Eric DeBrabandere BC Law and rights advocates discussed the Ilya Shapiro pondered the future of Henry Lee, noted for his work in mental justice coordinator for the the Pontifical Catholic University treatment of Rohingya Muslims in the Supreme Court at a Federalist the O. J. Simpson double murder EPA’s New England office observed of Chile hosted the Reforming Myanmar at a panel co-sponsored Society event. “Too many people case and founder of the Institute of that “there were not a lot of people International Investment Law by the Kupferschmidt Holocaust/ will now see the justices themselves Forensic Science at the University who looked like me in the field,” Conference in October. Leiden Human Rights Project and the in partisan terms,” Shapiro said. of New Haven, addressed the when she began her career as a civil University Professor DeBrabandere South Asian Law Student Associa- “We now have contrasting methods Homicide Forum co-sponsored by environmental engineer. Solomon pushed for an overhaul of internation. Htun, a Harvard professor, of constitutional, statutory interpre- the Connell School of Nursing, BC and other panelists at a discussion tional investing systems during the said that the Myanmar government tation that map almost exactly onto Law, and Northeastern University. on environmental racism explained keynote. His “anarchist perspective “has zero oversight over key minis- partisan splits. What happens when Lee and other distinguished speak- how neglect of the environment on investment regulation” called for tries. They lack the ability to tell the Trump realizes the sorts of judges ers explored better ways to deal and lack of resources to address it more substantive international law, military command structure to stop. that he’s been advised to appoint with homicides, wrongful convic- disproportionately affect poor and greater transparency, and focus on Those are the real barriers.” would rule against him?” tions, and mass shootings. minority communities. human rights and the environment.

For additional stories and expanded content, visit lawmagazine.bc.edu. Winter 2018 BC LAW MAGAZINE 7 DOCKET Policy

From left, Glen Weinstein, Paulina Hill, Nikki Hadas ’97, and Joseph Theis ’03

BC Law Launches New Initiatives Business and tax law programs impact learning. BY VICKI SANDERS

Academic undertakings included a tour of the IBM Cyber- designed to enhance col- security Range and discussions laborations and the Law with technical, business, and School’s business offerings got into legal pros who gave examples of full swing last semester. innovation and entrepreneurship in the space. Upcoming is a PIE Program on Innovation and collaboration with the student implicates fundamental issues of cent “The Centennial of the Estate Entrepreneurship (PIE) Sports and Entertainment Law redistribution, economic justice, and Gift Tax: Perspectives and Professor David Olson is faculty Society to present a four-panel and the social safety net. The Recommendations.” director of the Program on In- symposium on everything from collaborative enables faculty and “The Tax Policy Collaborative novation and Entrepreneurship wearable technology to the com- their students to lead the conver- brings a variety of experience (PIE), which endeavors to build mercialization of sports venues sation around such matters as do- to bear on economic issues that partnerships between the Law and government relations. mestic and international taxation, affect every human being in our School and outside entrepreneurs “It is particularly fitting that employee benefits and retirement society,” said Dean Rougeau. “It in intellectual property, health BC Law should embrace as part security, charitable giving and enables the excellent work of care, biotechnology, and other of its mission [of service] a deep philanthropy, and wealth transfer our tax scholars and our tax law growth industries. It will do so engagement with these impor- taxation. program.” largely by hosting speakers, dis- tant areas and with the novel The aptly named Tax Policy cussions, and conferences locally legal issues they raise,” said Dean Collaborative encourages the Law Regulation and Markets and across the nation. “Rich dis- Rougeau. School’s tax specialists—James Workshop cussions, cutting-edge research, Repetti ’80, Diane Ring, Shu-Yi Another newcomer is the and intellectual exchange will be Tax Policy Collaborative Oei, and emeritus Hugh Ault—to Regulation and Markets multi- hallmarks” of the program, said BC Law’s renowned tax program tap into the resources of faculty disciplinary workshop, which Dean Vincent Rougeau. now encompasses the BC Law colleagues with related expertise, focuses on the study of regulatory PIE’s launch event was a panel Tax Policy Collaborative, which including Ray Madoff (philanthro- approaches to markets and busi- discussion in October about the brings under one umbrella the py and estates) and Patricia McCoy ness. Organized by Professors role of law and lawyers in an inno- many activities of scholars and (finance and regulation), Renee Oei and Shnitser, the workshop vation economy. Olson moderated students related to the study of Jones (corporate and securities investigates how such economic the conversation that featured tax law. Within the collabora- law), and Natalya Shnitser (retire- regulation should be designed Akebia Therapeutics’ Nikki Ha- tive, tax faculty engage in a range ment security), among others. in order to balance the interests das, ’97, Goodwin’s Joseph Theis, of issues—for example, they The collaborative is also of various constituencies. It ’03, Polaris Partners’ Paulina Hill, explore how countries, states, outward-facing. It includes the explores how traditional ap- and iRobot’s Glen Weinstein. The and localities raise revenue to Boston College Law School Tax proaches to regulation compare, event was a great way, Olson said, finance the provision of public Policy Workshop for academics, contrast, and intersect with “for the BC Law community to goods, and they ask micro- and policymakers, and practitioners emerging methodologies. hear four top experts in the fields macroeconomic questions about to discuss papers and works-in- The workshop creates op- of biotechnology, high-tech robot- whether the rules are fair, how progress. It is part of the Boston portunities for scholars working ics, venture capital, and related they influence taxpayer behavior, College-Tulane Tax Roundtable on economic regulation issues to legal services discuss the state of and how they impact the level and wherein tax scholars from around present their research and for BC innovation and entrepreneurship shape of economic activity within the country—together with BC and Law students to participate by in Greater Boston right now.” countries and more globally. Tulane students—debate policy enrolling in the related seminar, This semester PIE has already The nation’s new tax reform and discuss drafts of participants’ attending the workshops, and partnered with IBM Security law was a reminder that tax policy papers. And it organizes symposia discussing with faculty the works-

on an event in Cambridge that impacts everyone and its study and conferences such as the re- in-progress being presented. BC MTS, SOLDT, CHRISTOPHER (OPPOSITE): ’20; ORTIZ ERIKA CRAVEN INITIATIVES:

For additional stories and expanded 8 BC LAW MAGAZINE Winter 2018 content, visit lawmagazine.bc.edu. THE CLOUGH CENTER Ortiz served during one of the most tumultuous periods in the state’s recent history, a seven-year stretch that included the prosecution of gangster CANADA’S SUCCESSFUL James “Whitey” Bulger and Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. CONSTITUTION Boston College’s Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy hosted a two-day October conference to mark the 150th anniversary of Confederation in 3 She moderated “Litigating Canada—an important moment in modern Carmen Ortiz Talks Shop the Second Amendment,” a history because Canada is now one the Veteran prosecutor provides insight into life of US Attorney. dialogue between John Rosen- world’s constitutional superpowers. Canadian BY VICKI SANDERS thal, founder and president of Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown was Stop Handgun Violence, and among more than two dozen participants. In regards to the Canadian Constitu- Former US Attorney for the prosecution of gangster James Alan Gura, a Supreme Court tion’s growing influence since the 2000s in District of Massachusetts “Whitey” Bulger and Boston litigator who successfully other parts of the world—and the relative Carmen Ortiz was a ubiqui- Marathon bomber Dzhokhar argued for gun owners’ rights decline in influence of the US Constitution— tous presence on campus last Tsarnaev. “At the end of the day in District of Columbia v. Heller Justice Brown said the Canadian Supreme semester as BC Law’s Jerome you can’t make everyone happy and McDonald v. Chicago. Gura Court’s interpretation of its constitution likely played a central role in its universal Lyle Rappaport Visiting Pro- but you always try to do the said that part of the problem appeal. “It is useful to distinguish between fessor. In addition to teaching right thing,” she said during in the gun debate is cultural. the Constitution’s influence, and the Court’s a seminar on terrorism and the inaugural speech, referring “Lots of people don’t have guns influence in giving meaning to the content national security, she appeared to the logistical, political, legal, and see no value in them, so of the Constitution.” he said. on a number of panels and pre- and humanitarian factors that restrictions seem reasonable “As far as the US Constitution’s declining influence, it was written in 1787, so I suppose sented a signature lecture on figure into such cases. to them,” he explained. “People it shouldn’t be too surprising that it is declin- her experiences in office. She are speaking past each other.” ing in influence,” Justice Brown continued. served during one of the most The Rappaport Center for Law Rosenthal presented a trove of “But I think one also has to bear in mind tumultuous periods in the and Public Policy either hosted statistics and made an activ- that constitutions are more than just bills of state’s recent history, a seven- or co-sponsored other events in ist’s case for stricter and com- rights. It may be that with the proliferation of republican constitutions post-war, maybe year stretch that included the which Ortiz participated. mon sense regulation. Their that particular aspect of the US Constitu- conversation was co-spon- tion had more influence than the Canadian sored by the Federalist Society Westminster model.” Carmen Ortiz and BC Law Democrats. He said the international appeal of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms could be attributed to the fact that the 3“Crimes of Terror or Crimes Supreme Court has drawn heavily upon the of Hate” brought Ortiz to- laws of other rule-of-law states in its inter- gether with US Attorneys from pretation of the Charter, making it a more North Carolina and Central universal document in a sense. California, who argued that This cross-pollination made the Charter more than a uniquely Canadian document, the fundamental framework and it became a document that would be of terror is a violent act aimed interpreted with a wider, universal under- at influencing government standing of the meaning of rights, he said. or mass populations so as However, Justice Brown cautioned that there to impact policy and the is a danger in assuming the Canadian model can be the new paradigm for the world. “The people. Each panelist shared more likely we are to see it as such, the less a detailed account of her likely we are to look for ways that we can response to the tragedies that improve upon it,” he said. —JAEGUN LEE ’20 occurred during her watch— Beth Drake on the Emanuel OTHER CLOUGH CENTER EVENTS African Methodist Episcopal Church shooting and Eileen 3 “The Trump Adminis- of sociology and head Decker on the mass attack in tration and the Con- of the Institute of San Bernardino—touching on stitution” with Boston Sociology at the Uni- issues of jurisdiction, working College political versity of Flensburg, science, law, and his- Germany with victims, prosecutorial tory professors decisions, the death penalty, 3 “After Charlottes- community responses, and 3 “Evolutionary Sociol- ville,” with BC Law’s ogy of Constitution- Vincent Rougeau, federal/state law enforcement alism” with Hauke Cathleen Kaveny, and collaborations. Brunkhorst, professor Daniel Farbman

Winter 2018 BC LAW MAGAZINE 9 DOCKET Candid “When I photographed the aftermath of the Freddie Gray riots, my desire to pursue public service solidified.” Asia Calling Baltimore’s Taylor Green ’18 turns her gaze East. INTERVIEW BY BRENDAN MCKINNON ’19

We lived in the Park Heights community of Baltimore when I was young. While my mother was pregnant with me, a SWAT team came through our yard to raid a drug house, and my dad witnessed someone gunned down right in front of our home. We finally moved after I started to repeat the words of a crack dealer walking down our street shouting “pink tops, purple tops!” My mom knew it was time to go.

I got really interested in Japanese art, culture, and history when my cousin, who was stationed in the Air Force in Japan, came home and talked about the country. I pursued an Asian Studies minor in college and spent a semester abroad in Osaka.

An international comparative criminal justice course in Japan opened my eyes to the role that a country’s culture plays in its legal system. We viewed a Japanese criminal trial and studied human rights cases throughout Asia. This made me want to learn more about Asian legal systems and to question how to apply the lessons there to make changes in the United States.

I was still in Baltimore after being accepted to BC in 2015 when the Freddie Gray riots happened a couple blocks from my church. I was already focused on social justice issues, but when I photographed the aftermath of the riots, my desire to pursue public service solidified.

I was drawn to the Army JAG corps my 1L year because of my family in the military, and I liked the idea of frequently moving to different places. The Army would be a great way to serve and get more structure in my life and to get in shape and gain some spunk. STUDENT SNAPSHOT During a JAG internship my 2L year in South Korea, Provenance Born in Baltimore, Chair (current) and Vice President to still tell me when I’m wrong. I was exposed to a lot of law and military life. They Maryland; moved to the suburbs 2016-17, Black Law Students’ Guilty Pleasure Korean dramas; even let me do morning physical training with gas as a child. Learning BA in Association; Research Assistant to I have subscriptions to three masks (I threw up the first time), ruck marches, com- Philosophy & Communications, Professor Richard Albert; Staff Edi- services so I can binge them. Ideal Loyola University Maryland; Asian tor, Intellectual Property and Tech- Residence Abroad! A different bat lifesaving, and a Spartan Race with the unit. Studies Certificate, Kansai Gaidai nology Forum Journal. Languages place every three months would University (Osaka, Japan). Pre- Spanish, Korean, Japanese. Extra be great. Favorite Motto/Quote Touring the Demilitarized Zone and North Korean law Policy and advocacy intern at Credit Participated in international “Even though I walk through the World Relief; freelance photogra- acting and modeling competitions valley of the shadow of death, I infantry tunnels reinforced my desire to do East Asian pher and graphic designer; L’Oréal in high school. Best Quality in shall fear no evil.” It’s tattooed on policy work down the road. sales rep. At BC Law Community Friends Loyalty, with the ability my arm in Japanese.

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Saying Yes to Reins on Net Neutrality Professor Lyons argues zero-rated plans are good for consumers. BY DAVID REICH

The Idea: In urging the Federal Communica- tions Commission to proscribe mobile phone plans that zero-rate some Internet content, net neutrality groups like Public Knowledge and Free Press do consumers a disservice, according to Professor Daniel Lyons, who has been writing law review articles on FCC rules for the Internet since the beginning of this decade. A judicious, case-by-case application of antitrust law, instead of sweeping rules against zero-rating plans, would protect consumers without burdening market innovation, Lyons says.

The Impact: The term net neutrality refers to the transmission speed of Internet content. Under FCC net neutrality rules established in 2015, and rescinded in December, Internet service providers (ISPs) could not favor or disfavor content by slowing, blocking, or accelerating it. Zero-rating data plans give mobile and other In- ternet users access to selected content—Facebook, say, or local news—without its counting against their data cap. Subscribers to zero-rating plans also have full access to other web content. While they observe net neutrality, neither slowing nor accelerating content, zero-rating plans do favor some content in a way—by freeing it from data caps—and thus net neutrality advocates have never looked kindly on the plans. A 2017 report by the European Commission Directorate General for Competition found that zero- rating serves some users’ specialized needs without noticeably harming other users. The 183-page report POCKET RÉSUMÉ contains multiple citations to Daniel Lyons, along with multipage summaries of two articles by him. Degrees AB and JD, both magna cum laude, Harvard University. Private Practice The articles describe existing zero-rating Munger Tolles & Olson, and Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher, Los Angeles; represented clients in proceedings before the FCC and California Public Utilities Commis- plans and enumerate their benefits. In the US, for sion. Clerkship Judicial clerk, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Writing Articles instance, an innovative T-Mobile plan offers zero- in Emory Law Journal, Case Western Reserve Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, rated access to streaming music. The company, and numerous others. Credentials Visiting fellow, American Enterprise Institute. Free State Foundation, member of the board of academic advisors. Winner, Emil says Lyons, launched the plan after having “rec- Slizewski Faculty Excellence Award, Boston College Law School. ognized that lots of consumers listen to music for many hours and were breaking through their data

12 BC LAW MAGAZINE Winter 2018 Illustration by JOE CIARDIELLO Lyons, whose work was cited twice in the FCC order repealing net neutrality rules, isn’t fazed by concerns that the end of net neutrality means ISPs will favor certain content—creating “fast and slow lanes” for data and charging content providers to move their data faster—or may censor content.

caps.” He adds that the plan has helped T-Mobile today’s crowded market for mobile data assures FACULTY climb from fourth place to third among US mobile that no provider does. (Thus, if a consumer doesn’t MILESTONES service providers, and its success has led T-Mobile want a plan that offers only partial web access, she Great Minds Dean Hashimoto, who to launch a similar plan with zero-rated video. The can easily get one with full web access.) To find a holds degrees from Stanford, Yale, UC Berkeley, Harvard, and UC San zero-rated plans have paved the way, says Lyons, violation of antitrust law also requires a showing Francisco was elected last fall to the for popular new unlimited plans offered by several that consumers have been harmed, and “it’s hard to American Law Institute, a leading US mobile data providers, with no data caps whatever. make the case that giving [Internet access] away is organization producing scholarly work Building on successes in this way is the path of in- harming the consumer,” Lyons says. to clarify, modernize, and improve the novation in the mobile data space, he adds. Lyons, whose work was cited twice in the FCC law. He shares that distinction with BC Law colleagues Ray Madoff, R. Voice-plus plans take a leap beyond zero-rating order repealing net neutrality rules, isn’t fazed Michael Cassidy, and Catherine Wells, and thus cause even more concern among net by the concerns of net neutrality groups—that among others. Hashimoto’s expertise neutrality advocates. The plans, which feature the end of net neutrality means ISPs will favor lies in the interface of law, science, and uncapped access to selected websites but no ac- certain content, creating “fast and slow lanes” for medicine, especially in the areas of cess whatever to other sites, are popular in Europe data and charging content providers to move their health care policy and the role of scientific evidence in the courtroom. and the developing world, but they clearly would data faster; also that ISPs may censor content. He have broken the FCC’s short-lived net neutral- analogizes fast and slow data lanes to priority and Law Under Siege Professors George ity rules. In 2014, before the rules were in place, first class mail. (“You buy the level of service you Brown and Daniel Kanstroom participated on a Constitution Day panel at Sprint announced the launch of a voice-plus need,” he says, adding that congestion-sensitive BC Law. Brown discussed “Trump’s plan for US consumers, with uncapped access to applications, such as Netflix, may end up paying for disturbing attitude toward the law,” and four social media sites. Lyons says he’d hoped to priority delivery in the event of congestion.) As to Kanstroom said it remains to be seen enroll his daughter. With web access on a home censorship, he offers another analogy: “Broadband whether Trump’s decision to pardon computer, she didn’t visit most websites on her providers would say, ‘We’re not the government, so Maricopa County Sheriff Arpaio could undermine the judicial branch’s power mobile phone, but she often exceeded the fam- the First Amendment doesn’t apply.’ You can write to check the executive. Brown also ily plan’s data cap owing to heavy Instagram use. a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe, but the spoke at the Penn State Law Review Thus, a plan with uncapped access to Instagram Globe doesn’t have to publish it.” symposium “Breach of the Public would have suited her needs perfectly. To Lyons’ Why don’t net neutrality groups see things his (DisTrust): Political Corruption and disappointment, though, Sprint quickly discon- way? One theory is they are in the pocket of Inter- Government Ethics in 2017.” tinued the plan, presumably because the company net content providers who fear that their content Real News Tax professor James had seen the writing on the FCC’s wall—a loss for may someday be blocked or slowed—to favor an Repetti ’80 set off a string of citations in national news media after he was consumer choice, Lyons says. ISP’s own proprietary content. quoted by Bloomberg regarding a late While he thinks antitrust law suffices to police “I’m not a follow-the-money guy,” Lyons says. revision to the tax reform bill. “This is a the market for mobile data plans, without any “I like to take people at their word. Net neutrality windfall for real estate developers like FCC intervention, Lyons sees little likelihood of advocates really don’t trust broadband providers Trump,” Repetti said. The Washington antitrust violations in that market as currently and want an aggressive regulatory response. I’m Post, Vanity Fair, Politico, Esquire, and Mother Jones also quoted him. Other configured. For one thing, to violate antitrust law, more concerned that the FCC will do something profs who frequently commented to a business must first have “market power,” and that would hurt consumers.” the press on a variety of topics: Patricia McCoy, Kent Greenfield, Kari Hong, and David Lyons. The Nonprofit Times

NOTABLE FACULTY PUBLICATIONS gave Ray Madoff its Power and Influ- ence Award, putting her among the 50 most influential in the field. Cathleen Kaveny deepened R. Michael Cassidy added Robert Bloom ’71 and Wil- Judith McMorrow co- her exploration into the to his accomplishments with liam T. Clark ’15 write in “Small authored “Lawyer Discipline Farewell Henry Clay, who was the Law connections between law, “The Grand Jury: A Shield of Cells, Big Problems: The in an Authoritarian Regime: School’s Associate Dean for Admin- religion, and morality in Ethics a Different Sort,” written with Increasing Precision of Cell Site Empirical Insights from istration from 2002 to 2008 before at the Edges of Law: Christian Julian A. Cook and forthcom- Location Information and the Zhejiang Province, China” in retiring to Virginia, passed away in Moralists and American Legal ing in Georgia Law Review, and Need for Fourth Amendment the Georgetown Journal of November. He came to BC Law after Thought, published by Oxford Wolters Kluwer’s 2017 Profes- Protections” (Journal of Crimi- Legal Ethics. She observes an twelve years as Chief Staff Counsel of University Press in November. sional Responsibility in Focus, nal Law & Criminology), that authoritarian political logic at the Massachusetts SJC, and served the The book came close on the co-authored with two others. cell phone tracking, if placed work, with punishment most heels of the her award-winning He was recently included in under the Fourth Amendment, clearly serving to safeguard Law School under Dean John Garvey. essay collection, A Culture of the top 10 percent of authors would render a section of the the Communist Party’s rule by He leaves more than his legacy for Engagement: Law, Religion, by downloads on the Social Stored Communication Act keeping lawyers tightly tied to hard work; his son, Christopher Clay, and Morality. Science Research Network. unconstitutional. their law firms. graduated in 2007.

Winter 2018 BC LAW MAGAZINE 13 DOCKET In the Field POCKET RÉSUMÉ

Xiomara Corral ’87 Senior Attorney, BNY Mellon. Advanced Degree She holds an LLM in banking and financial law from Boston University School of Law. Follow the Leader Though she and her husband love ballroom dancing twice a week, it’s the only time they fight. “You need to learn to lead,” is often met with “You need to learn to follow.”

Xiomara Corral ’87 readily admits she has commitment issues: government relations, and Citizens The When it comes to jobs, she has a hard time saying no to new Bank, where she served as senior challenges and new teams. To date, she’s made it to just over vice president and senior counsel. Grass Is the three-year mark in most of her positions, and then, inevitably, some The BNY Mellon model is new employer comes calling and, well, the rest is history. significantly different from large Always This fall, Corral pledged her considerable experience in the financial brokerage houses, where brokers services industry to the Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BNY Mel- are generally paid on commis- Greener lon), where she is now a senior attorney advising BNY Mellon’s Pershing sion and the company is mostly If there’s one changeless Advisor Solutions, supporting financial advisors who leave wirehouses— responsible for the legalities. thing about Xiomara the term used to describe large, integrated brokerages—to go solo. “These are advisors who need Corral’s career, it’s that she “My part of the company provides support services to investment advi- office space, marketing materials, likes to change things up. sors who are trying to put up a shingle and open their own shop. We assist etcetera. We help them with all of BY MAURA KING SCULLY with the transition. They come to our platform, we manage their back- that to start up and then we help office operations, and in exchange they pay us service fees,” says Corral, them transition their client assets who has held senior legal positions with industry giants, including Fidelity, to our platform to process trades. where she was a principal compliance advisor and then director of state We brand it for them. The more

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successful they are, the more suc- see on a daily basis, but the issues, working with best thing about my job is outside counsel, and cessful we are,” explains Corral. Paths to Success Alumni find career satisfaction in unusual places. that I am in a position to do observing—and sometimes Currently, there are about 520 something about it.” participating in—the investment advisory clients that 1. Salama Atadika ’07 and positions that may creative process.” Corral supports on the platform, Answering the Call When appear to be a step down if 3. Richard Lara ’93 and they largely serve high-networking in law firms didn’t they fit into your long-term Star Power After eighteen 4. Vincent Lau ’97 feel like a fit, she took a career plan.” years with his Miami law Destiny A post-college job worth clients. Though Corral chance on a temporary firm, Mase Lara, he went as an immigration parale- brings significant experience in position with Verizon 2. Katie Condon Grace ’12 in-house in 2016 as ex- gal led to law school led to securities law, regulatory compli- Wireless, which wanted an Prescription for Justice ecutive vice president and an internship at Yale led to ance, and broker-dealer regulation attorney to handle EEOC As a staff attorney with general counsel for Spanish a firm in Worcester, where to the table, this type of business charges of discrimination. MetroWest Legal Services’ Broadcasting System he planned to focus on Within a year, she was hired Medical-Legal Partner- (SBS), the largest publicly law and higher education is as new for her as it is for the by Verizon as a full-time ship in Framingham, she traded Hispanic-controlled administration, but ended freshly independent advisors. EEOC consultant. Giving trains medical providers at media and entertainment up specializing in immi- “I sit in the legal department Voice Today, as man- the Kennedy Community company in the US. Diverse gration. “It is one of those with other lawyers who support ager, employee relations, Health Center on substan- Demands “The most chal- fields that chose me,” says brokerage, but I’m the only person at Verizon’s headquarters tive areas of law and how lenging aspect of my posi- Lau, who is now a partner in New Jersey, she ensures to identify patients’ health- tion is dealing with a broad at Clark Lau, an immigra- supporting the advisory platform that both employees and related legal needs. Health array of regulatory obligation firm in Cambridge. business,” says Corral, who was the corporation feel heard. Benefits She then provides tions applying to our radio, Outcomes He spends a most recently counsel for K&L “The biggest challenge direct legal assistance and television, digital, and fair amount of time man- Gates, where her practice concen- is managing competing representation to those pa- concert divisions operating aging client expectations trated on broker-dealer regulatory interests when handling a tients. “I practice as a gen- in New York, Chicago, Los given that right now “the complex matter, such as the eralist attorney and handle Angeles, Miami, Houston, process is a moving tar- and compliance matters. Just desire for quick resolution, cases dealing with housing and San Juan.” Breaking get.” Rewards “Despite the before that she served as a senior and my responsibility to law, public benefits, access News The unexpected uncertainty and increas- vice president and legal counsel conduct a fair, balanced, to health coverage, domes- makes his job exciting. “No ing level of frustration at Santander Securities, for her and thorough review.” tic violence, family law, day is the same, and I enjoy with the process, I still usual thirty-six months, give or Advice “Before moving to special education, and im- the adrenaline rush when enjoy the problem-solving. a corporate setting, re- migration.” Don’t Despair shifting gears between Whenever we come upon take. “My whole career has been search the company’s prod- “The most challenging artist contracts, ensuring a not-so-obvious option on the flip side of this. I’ve been ucts, services, and culture. thing about my job is the compliance with SEC that works, it’s like strik- on the product sales support side Be open to non-legal roles intolerance and injustice I and corporate governance ing gold.” —MKS advising brokers selling mutual funds, variable annuities, and other financial services products on commission to retail investors. When You Work for Rolls-Royce, Excellence Is Boss Now I support investment advi- Tom Dale ’82 When people hear that Dale works for Rolls- Today, the company is one of the world’s leading produc- sors in servicing clients.” Royce, he often has to explain that the company he works ers of aero engines for large civil aircraft and corporate jets What drives Corral to change for doesn’t make cars—that division was sold off long ago and the second largest provider of defense aero engines. jobs? “I tell myself that I am an and the name licensed to BMW for use on the iconic luxury Rolls-Royce also designs marine vessels and integrates vehicles. As executive vice president and general counsel of power systems, recently acquired a diesel engine business, eternal optimist,” she muses. “I Rolls-Royce North America, a leading engineering company has a growing presence in civil nuclear power, and an- always think the grass is greener focused on world-class power and propulsion systems, Dale nounced a partnership with Airbus and Siemens to produce somewhere else. The answer is doesn’t mind clearing up the confusion. After all, he says, a hybrid aircraft. probably not, but at least it will be “When people say Rolls-Royce, they mean it’s the best.” “As the world migrates to new technologies, such as elec- a different shade of green.” Dale joined the company in 1990 as its first American tric propulsion and autonomous aircraft and marine vessels, lawyer. “At that time, Rolls-Royce in the US was just a the innovations pioneered by Rolls-Royce present interesting But, this time around, she marketing outpost along with some technical support business scenarios for its legal counsel,” Dale says. Those thinks that she just might stay a personnel at scattered airports,” he explains. Over the past scenarios include issues concerning IP rights and technology bit longer. “It gets old always be- two-plus decades, the development, cybersecurity, and trade regulations affecting ing the newbie,” she admits. And North America opera- the movement of ideas and products across borders. then she goes quiet for a moment tion has grown to more Staffing diversity is one of Dale’s top objectives. His team than 7,000 people, has been recognized with the Minority Corporate Counsel before thinking out loud, “I could including a legal team of Association’s Employer of Choice Award. “People working probably be entertained here for thirty that Dale, based in with me understand that diversity is valued,” he says, “and in quite some time.” Virginia, directs. the end, we get a better result.” —MKS

Winter 2018 BC LAW MAGAZINE 15 DOCKET Brainstorm

16 BC LAW MAGAZINE Winter 2018 Q+A WITH “The main problem in gerrymandering cases is drawing a line between politics-as-usual and extreme, unconstitutional gerrymandering.” ATTORNEY PAUL SMITH SCOTUS Litigator Paul M. Smith and DEAN VR: What was the biggest chal- political ramifications. But more of lawyer on the team to educate VINCENT ROUGEAU lenge you faced in arguing Gill? broadly, the judges have to realize the appellate advocates, who in this issue transcends politics. In turn can speak more effectively PS: The main problem in ger- states that have citizen initia- to the justices than the specialist rymandering cases is drawing a tives, like Arizona and California, could do. line between politics-as-usual people are telling their legisla- and extreme, unconstitutional tors, “You’re overdoing the poli- VR: That’s consistent with the gerrymandering. When I argued tics. Independent commissions history of Anglo-American Vieth v. Jubilirer [2004], also should be drawing these maps.” trial practice. The barrister in about gerrymandering, Justice England took whatever case Kennedy said, “Give me some PS: If we lose this case, we’ll see a came, educated him or herself to standards, and give me some really strong movement to do that the facts, and presented them in measuring techniques.” And alternative remedy. There already court. Specialization evolved over that’s what we tried to do in Gill, is, but I think it would get a shot time, but it’s not really part of our using a new technique that as- in the arm. What’s interesting tradition. I want my students pre- signs a number to each gerry- about the Chief Justice’s remark pared to be successful advocates, mander based on the percentage is that the court already looks po- no matter what specialty they of “wasted votes.” That allows us litical based on how they’re going choose. The training enables peo- to compare gerrymanders across to divide on this case. Whether or ple to absorb lots of complicated the country and back into time. not my side gets Justice Kennedy, information and then replay it in And the bias in the Wisconsin we already essentially know that a way that a broader set of people maps is off the charts. we’re going to get four Democrat- can understand. ic-appointee liberals, and they’re The VR: These extreme gerrymanders going to get four Republican- PS: This quality of lawyers also are undermining people’s faith appointee conservatives. And it’s results from the fact that in this Making of in our democracy. If you live in not altogether obvious why the country we don’t allow people to a gerrymandered district where justiciability of this issue should specialize in law at seventeen. a Supreme one party will always win, at what have an ideological component. They go to college or university, point do you stop voting? People where they study lots of different Court increasingly are cynical about the VR: You’ve also done appellate topics. In almost any other coun- democratic process, and that will work in, among other areas, try, you look at the law from the Litigator further push power towards those LBGT rights and the free speech time you’re in high school. And A generalist learns how with the resources to control it. rights of the people who produce you don’t have that foundation to talk the talk. and sell video games. That’s quite which the law schools in America ABRIDGED AND EDITED BY DAVID REICH PS: The cynicism is caused by a range. How do you manage it? then build upon, with lots of gerrymandering in part, but a courses that draw on economics Paul M. Smith has argued 19 US lot of it is caused by false claims PS: In the last 25 years, we’ve or philosophy or even the arts. Supreme Court cases, most nota- of rigged elections and massive seen the emergence of a Supreme bly the landmark case Lawrence v. Tex a s , which overturned state sod- voter fraud. Some people have Court bar, people like me who are VR: That’s one of our hallmarks omy laws and paved the way for a great investment in creating effectively generalists. We get at BC. When students walk in same-sex marriage. In October, the cynicism, the lack of faith in called upon to argue almost every the door, we don’t know if they’ll he represented plaintiffs in Gill v. the system. case. And that means a general- end up as litigators, commercial Whitford, which challenges Wis- ist is talking to justices who are lawyers, immigration lawyers, or consin’s state electoral districts and could have major implications VR: I found it a little disingenu- generalists. But the generalist if they’ll be working in policy or for the future of the country’s ous when Chief Justice Roberts who’s arguing needs to be suf- business and not actually “prac- electoral system. During a recent claimed, during the Gill oral ficiently educated on the highly ticing law.” But we want to make visit to BC Law, Smith and Dean arguments, “If we rule against specialized area of the law that’s sure they recognize how integral Vincent Rougeau talked over top- a map, the court will be viewed at issue in a given case, so typi- law is to our life as a community, ics like the oral arguments in Gill, US Supreme Court advocacy, and as political.” You know what? cally you have a patent lawyer or our life as a democracy. You need legal education. You’re deciding a case with major election lawyer or whatever kind that broader training to do it well.

Photograph by DANA SMITH; Illustration by STEVE SANFORD Winter 2018 BC LAW MAGAZINE 17 DOCKET Evidence

Wrongful Conviction Saving the innocent, one trying exoneration at a time. BY VICKI SANDERS AND LEAH HERSCOVICI ’18

Since its founding in 2007, the Boston College Innocence Program at the Law School has been an active player in the nationwide effort to correct the flaws in the criminal justice system that lead to wrongful convictions. Students, faculty, and alumni have labored to help victims of such injustices receive freedom and the means to re-enter society and live productive lives. It’s a tall order. But the gratitude of prisoners who’ve been returned to their families and communities is compensation enough for those involved in their exonerations. As Catherine Mendola ’15 says of her experience, “The innocence clinic was by far the most gratifying educational and professional opportunity I have ever had.” The state and national data on these pages at- test to the complex causes and effects of wrongful convictions and the demographics of the people caught in the web of false confessions, misidenti- fications, police and procedural misconduct, and faulty forensics. Under the supervision of Professors Sharon Beckmann and Charlotte Whitmore, students investigate and litigate wrongful conviction cases on behalf of individual clients, of course, but they also engage in broader public policy and law reform efforts. This fall they mounted a major push to pass Massachusetts legislation to improve outcomes for exonerees, in the form of transitional services and compensation. 2016 / ONE-YEAR NATIONAL SNAPSHOT MASSACHUSETTS “Massachusetts was the first state to provide human services as well as compensation to the wrongly convicted,” explains Beckman, founder and faculty director of the Innocence Program, “but the process takes too long and provides too little relief 61 for the unimaginable harms they and their families 687 Exonerations166 in the United States (record year) Exonerations since 1989 Total years lost in prison have endured.” Adding another—often emotional—dimension to students’ learning experiences are frequent events Prisoners Exonerated For $500,000 / State cap on total damages claim featuring exonerees, among them Fred Clay, Victor 73 Non-violent crimes, for a single wrongful conviction Rosario, and Dennis Maher, and advocates like Jen- primarily drug possession nifer Thompson, who has dedicated her life to the 54 Homicide pursuit of restorative justice for all people harmed Percentage Breakdown of Crimes by wrongful conviction, including crime victims like 24 Sex crimes herself as well as exonerees and their families. 15 Other: arson, robbery, attempted murder, etc. All these efforts are noteworthy, and headway is 39% 15% 11% 28% being made. Still, the numbers don’t lie. Every year, 94 Cases where no crime occurred an estimated 10,000 innocent people are wrong- For example, no-crime cases can occur when accidental or natural deaths fully convicted of crimes they did not commit. are mistaken for homicides. Homicide Sex Crimes Child Sex Abuse Other

18 BC LAW MAGAZINE Winter 2018 Illustration by BRIAN STAUFFER THE UNITED STATES 18,590 The DNA Factor 2,144Exonerations (1989-2016) Total years lost in prison

’89Year the first Prisoners sentenced to Gender of DNA exoneration death before DNA TEN THOUSAND Exonerees occurred proved their innocence New wrongful convictions every year

The People

Percentage of Percentage of Prisoners Race Prison Population Exonerations exonerated Black 28 47 62% by DNA who are people White 44 39 of color Hispanic 25 12 Other 3 2 1,930 200

The National Registry of Exonerations identified 5 contributing factors in wrongful convictions (some cases include more than one factor; these figures from 2014): 35 years 353 Longest sentence Post-conviction DNA served by exonerations a DNA exoneree

57% 52% 29% 24% 12%

Perjury/ Official Mistaken Bad Forensic False 4,829 False Accusation Misconduct Identification Evidence Confession Approximate total years served by all DNA exonerees

MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL

Percentage Breakdown of Exonerees by Race In 2017, BC Law students 2007 / The year the Boston College Innocence Program was founded worked to support passage of Massachusetts Senate Bill No. 877 “to heal the harms of wrongful conviction.” Remedies Black 10 they advocated for included: Active cases 34% One White Number of Integrated 1 currently being 3 An avenue for immedi- academic and clinical New England law worked on ate reentry services and 49% preliminary relief Other innocence programs in school in National New England Innocence Network 3 Removal of $500,000 4% cap on wrongful conviction compensation 16 5 3 Expediting and simplifying Hispanic Hours per week Events sponsored the litigation process 13% 20+ students investigate or co-sponsored 3 Full tuition waiver at state Students per year in and litigate Mass. by Innocence universities and community clinics and externships prisoner claims Program 2016-17 colleges

Sources: National Registry of Exonerations, The Innocence Project, Boston College Innocence Program, Federal Bureau of Prisons Winter 2018 BC LAW MAGAZINE 19

GREAT CASE

SCAPEGOATS BY JERI ZEDER PHOTOGRAPHS BY TONY LUONG Just what lay behind the New York DA’s aggressive targeting of a small CHINATOWN bank in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis? ABACUS FEDERAL SAVINGS, a family-run community institution, became the sole bank in America indicted for practices that brought the MORTGAGE INDUSTRY—and the economy—to its knees. The giant culprits were deemed too big to fail. But Abacus was seen as just right: small enough to jail. Or so it seemed. Alumnae VERA AND CHANTERELLE SUNG relive their family’s saga.

21 21 GREAT CASE SCAPEGOATS IT WAS THE KIND OF SPECTACLE FEW COURT- WATCHERS COULD RECALL SEEING

IN RECENT FIFTEEN CHINESE-AMERICANS WERE HANDCUFFED, chained together, and paraded by law enforcement down the narrow hallway of a New York City courthouse. Cameras flashed as they held on to each other, hunched over, trying to cover their faces. The date was May 31, 2012. At a splashy press conference, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus DECADES. Vance Jr. announced the indictment of Abacus Federal Savings Bank plus nineteen of its former employees, including the head of the loan department. The charges: 184 counts of falsifying business records, and of residential mortgage fraud, grand larceny, and conspiracy. The indictment claimed that the bank had falsified loan applications so that unqualified borrowers could obtain home mortgages, and then sold

22 BC LAW MAGAZINE Winter 2018 IN THE DIZZY YEARS BEFORE THE GREAT DEPRES- sion of 2008, lenders were pumping up a speculative housing bubble and getting very, very rich by predatorily throwing mortgages at homebuyers with poor credit ratings. These subprime mortgages were pooled together into securities and sold as investments. Lured by the rising values of their rapidly appreciating homes, homeowners went on a consumer spend- IT WAS THE KIND OF ing spree. The US economy was booming. Few people questioned whether any of this was wise. A notable exception was the founder and chairman of Abacus Bank, Thomas Sung. Thomas could have jumped on the bandwagon. In 2006, a broker from Chicago had tried to sell him highly rated mortgage-backed securities boasting a 12 percent yield. Thomas requested more information. Days later, a large binder reached his desk, filled with pages of impenetrable fine print. In a follow-up conversation, Thomas asked the broker what happens if the loans behind the securities defaulted. Oh, not to worry, he was told. There hasn’t been a default in seven years. “I go back a lot longer than seven years,” Thomas told him, “and I have seen defaults where home prices drop by as much as 35 percent. I do not think that these are sound securities.” And that was that. Abacus never invested in mortgage- backed securities, nor did it ever originate any subprime mortgages. When the housing bubble burst, the world tumbled into financial crisis. Millions lost their homes, their savings, their livelihoods. But Thomas Sung’s hands were clean. Abacus continued about its business. Then, something happened. In December of 2009, Thomas’ daughter Vera, a member of the bank’s board of directors, and her sister Jill, the bank’s president and CEO, discovered that, in an otherwise routine home mortgage closing, a low-level employee was embezzling funds. They stopped the closing. They fired the employee. They reported the incident to the bank’s compliance officer. They hired an outside consultant to investigate, which resulted in more firings and several resignations. They notified their mortgage financer Fannie Mae. And they advised the borrowers to report the matter to the police. After a three-month trial, from left, Jill, Vera, and Thomas Sung await the verdict in “This was exemplary conduct,” says BC Law Professor the State Supreme Court in Manhattan. Patricia McCoy, an expert in banking and banking regulation. “Any bank has a risk that a rogue employee or two will engage in fraud.” Getting to the bottom of why the fraud happened and preventing it in the future was a job for the bank regulators. these fraudulent mortgages to the Federal National Mortgage Associa- But Manhattan DA Vance didn’t see it that way. His of- tion—Fannie Mae—the alleged victim. Invoking the 2008 mortgage de- fice started investigating. Abacus officials fully cooperated, bacle, DA Vance said, “If we’ve learned anything, it’s that at some point, ultimately handing over to the DA more than 600,000 pages these schemes unravel and taxpayers are left holding the bag.” of neatly organized documents. But as the DA’s questioning Abacus, which was founded by the father of Vera Sung ’90 and Chan- grew increasingly hostile, it dawned on the Sungs: They aren’t terelle Sung ’04, was, and remains, the only bank indicted in the wake of just investigating this small matter. They are investigating us. the 2008 financial crisis. The case is the subject of the PBS documentary To Thomas, Abacus was more than just a bank. It was a Abacus: Small Enough to Jail that has been nominated for an Acacemy community service. Born in Shanghai, Thomas was sixteen Award. More than that, the story of Abacus and the Manhattan DA’s when he immigrated to America with his mother and father office is a cautionary tale of what can happen when a culturally distinct in 1951. Hardship struck when his mother passed away. community of immigrants seeks to share in the American dream, and a Thomas pursued his education while helping the family and zealous prosecutor’s office concludes that its efforts to do so are criminal. holding down a job, eventually graduating from Brooklyn Law

23 GREAT CASE SCAPEGOATS “WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT CORRUPTION—PEOPLE CUT CORNERS AND THEY TRY TO FIND AN EASY WAY OUT. THAT IS SO COUNTER TO

School. He met and married Hwei HOW WE WERE RAISED…TO NOT BE AFRAID OF REALLY DOING THINGS Lin Tseng in the early 1960s, became THE HARD WAY. THE RIGHT WAY IS HARDER.” CHANTERELLE SUNG a leader in Chinatown’s community associations, and ran his own law firm while Hwei Lin stayed home with their four daughters, Vera, Jill, Heather, and Chanterelle. He than 5 percent. Fannie Mae, the alleged victim, had profited by more than helped his clients obtain citizenship, open businesses, buy $100 million from loans originated by Abacus. Abacus was the 2,651st homes. He noticed that, while the “mainstream” banks were largest bank in the US, with just $300 million in assets, and had never happy to accept deposits from their Chinese patrons, they trafficked in the questionable mortgages that had brought down the US were less enthusiastic about lending them money. Abacus and world economies. In contrast, the too-big-to-fail institutions like Bank was born of Thomas’ insight that if the people of China- Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Chase, and Citicorp had town were going to partake of the American dream, they were issued $4.8 trillion in fraudulent mortgages and had received a $700 going to need capital. billion government bailout, paid $110 billion in fines, and were given The Sungs’ realization that the DA’s office was turning on deferred prosecution and non-prosecution agreements. The only offer them came with an added jolt: Chanterelle was an assistant Abacus got was to plead guilty to a felony and pay a $6 million fine. That DA working in the very same division that was investigating disparate treatment “was something that was so upsetting for us,” says the bank. “I had always wanted to work in the public service Chanterelle. and that’s something I did for eleven years after graduating The Sungs, none of whom were ever indicted by the DA, did not from law school,” Chanterelle says. Seven of those years she believe that the bank’s actions amounted to criminality. The bank’s spent with the Manhattan DA. Chanterelle’s earliest memory clientele operated in a largely cash economy and did not always have of doing public service was when she was a young schoolgirl the W-2 forms, tax returns, and other documents that were the stan- and volunteered for the Red Cross. “My mother wanted to dard for establishing a borrower’s good credit. Over many long years, make sure that I was using my time wisely, that I wasn’t going Thomas had worked with Fannie Mae to find other ways for the bank to to be just wasting my summer away. She always said you have document the credit-worthiness of its prospective borrowers. “My fa- to be doing something good,” she added. ther asked Fannie Mae if borrowers could submit their telephone bills, “My family was very respectful of the fact that I actually other utility bills, and rent payments if they did not have traditional had a great career at the DA’s office and enjoyed it tremen- credit records,” says Vera. “We continued to work with Fannie Mae dously,” Chanterelle says. “They kept me firewalled from what to ensure that qualified borrowers could document their credit-wor- was going on in terms of the case against our bank. The office thiness in a way that would meet Fannie Mae guidelines. Fannie Mae requested that as well so that there wouldn’t be a conflict of was always very accommodating and willing to work with us until they interest.” But Chanterelle ultimately left the job she loved to were placed into receivership by the federal government in late 2008.” be with her family in the fight of their lives. “I wanted to be Pleading guilty would have meant the end of the bank. The Sungs able to know everything that was going on and I really didn’t decided to fight. “What choice did we have?” Vera says. have that ability by staying in the office,” she says. The trial opened on February 23, 2015. In the end, the jury would During the period covered in the indictment—2005 through have to choose between two opposing stories. In the prosecution’s story, 2010—the bank’s loan-default rate was less than half a percent. Abacus and its employees had criminally conspired to defraud Fannie That’s extraordinarily low—the national average was more Mae. The Sungs’ team of lawyers argued that there was no fraud, as

24 BC LAW MAGAZINE Winter 2018 At right, the founder and chairman of Abacus Bank, Thomas Sung. Above, an abacus from the bank’s collection and the Chinatown office. Winter 2018 BC LAW MAGAZINE 25 GREAT CASE SCAPEGOATS

evidenced by the fact that Fannie Mae had suffered no losses or harm. The Sungs attended the trial every day, and did their best in the courtroom to hide their anguish. But they kept their wits about them: At one point, the prosecutors moved to introduce into evidence a set of guidelines from Fannie Mae. The problem was, these guidelines had come into effect after the financial crisis and did not apply to the period of the indictment. That was a pivotal point in the trial. “We had no idea that the grand jury indictment had been based on Fannie Mae guidelines that were not relevant or applicable to our case,” says Chanterelle. “When Jill realized what was happening in court, she jumped out of her seat and tapped our lawyer on the back and whispered to him, ‘Wait, wait, this is wrong!’ After a long side bar, the court took a recess and the prosecutors came back after the lunch break very flustered.” Behind the scenes, the Sungs met frequently, patching one another in as necessary by conference call, to debrief about the trial and take comfort in one another. Thomas was the calm, steady fighter, strategic attorney, and savvy public relations manager. Chanterelle and Vera, his lawyer daughters, joined him in these tasks. Jill was a strong, effective compartmentalizer, running the bank and watching the trial while keeping at bay her fear that the DA’s office would have her arrested in front of her children. (This never happened). Daughter Heather, a pal- liative care physician, was a soothing presence in family discussions. Hwei Lin, their mother, was the worrier for them all. But she found her much-needed cause for hope in the presiding judge, Roger Hayes, who reminded her of her beloved grandfather, Tseng Sao Suen. Her grandfather had been a justice on Taiwan’s highest court. Hwei Lin had taught her daughters that even though he was very poor, he was known as an honorable man who had served his community with integrity. This was just one of many family stories impressed upon the Sung sisters as they grew up, stories in which hardship and poverty were no match for acting honorably and with concern for others. “We heard about the awful conditions our parents faced growing up in China—the dirt floors and the toilets which were just holes in the ground, the way they would have to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, scared that something would jump out of the hole,” Chanterelle says. “These are images in our minds of our parents coming from very little means, and working so hard to make ends meet.” Thomas and Hwei Lin were conscientious mentors to their children. “Our parents spent so much time with us,” says Chanterelle. Chanterelle swam competitively in high school, and her mother drove her to and from swim practice every day. She loved this time alone with her mother. Vera admits that “I would have loved to be hanging out at the mall with my friends, but our parents were very strict,” then quickly adds that her parents were not at all like the “Tiger Mother” stereotype. “It was more like, do the best you can, but be good,” she says. Vera helped her father in his law office, and accompanied him when he visited his properties. He also taught her how to use a hammer, a screwdriver, a drill. How to mix cement. He taught her how to write a check, and eventually, how to do closings, which she does to this day at his law firm Sung & Co., PC, where she is an associate. When illness struck a neighbor, or a stray cat needed a home, Hwei Lin would always help. “That is my mother,” Vera says. Weekends were for chores, with both parents and all four children chipping in. There were no nannies, no maids. In this way, the Sung sisters learned that hard work and virtue go

26 From top, Vera and Chanterelle’s mother, Hwei Lin, and sister, Jill. “YOU HAVE A CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM THAT SITS OVER A CULTURAL COMMUNITY THAT IT IS NOT SENSITIVE TO AND THAT IT DOESN’T

RECOGNIZE. THE PEOPLE WHO RUN THAT SYSTEM MUST BE WILLING that default is a red flag for fraud.” On a Rappaport Center for Law and TO UNDERSTAND THE COMMUNITY.” CHANTERELLE SUNG Public Policy panel that included Vera and Chanterelle at the Law School last fall, Terence McGinnis ’75, Massachu- together. “We never were told to short-cut things. Our parents always setts Commissioner of Banks, raised the concept of “char- did things the hard way, from scratch. When you think about corrup- acter lending” to describe how a small community bank like tion—people cut corners and they try to find an easy way out. That is Abacus makes loan decisions. Arguably, the DA’s dismissal so counter to how we were raised,” Chanterelle says. “I think that has of Abacus Bank’s exceptionally low mortgage default rate as something to do with it—not being afraid of really doing things the hard evidence that its lending practices were sound was a rejec- way. The right way is harder.” tion of the legal validity of character lending. An alternative And for the Sungs, the trial was hard indeed. The adversarial system interpretation is that the DA was culturally tone-deaf. “What demanded that borrowers testify against bank employees, that employ- I think is problematic is that you have a criminal justice sys- ees testify against their supervisors, and that lawyers catch all of them tem that sits over a cultural community that it is not sensitive in lies. Thomas worried that the reputation of the Chinese-American to and that it doesn’t recognize,” says Chanterelle. “That is community was being sullied. not going to work. The people who run that system must be The response of the community was complex. People felt loyal to willing to understand the community. Otherwise, you’re just Abacus. The indictments had sparked no panic among depositors, going to impose these arbitrary rules on top of a community perhaps because Thomas had made a preemptory statement to the Chi- that is completely legitimate and is completely legitimate in nese press, telling the community that Abacus had cooperated with the what it is doing, and end up with these perverse results.” DA and that the bank was not going to accept a guilty plea. On the other On May 19, 2015, the three-month trial came to a close. The hand: “We had a lot of borrowers who ended up testifying against us,” jury deliberated for eleven nail-biting days. On June 5, 2015, Chanterelle says. “One of them, three weeks after testifying against us, the New York Times reported: “After a court clerk read the 240 came to the bank for another loan! It is like a pragmatic approach—the counts in the indictment and repeated the words ‘not guilty’ bank served them well, but they didn’t want to get into trouble by not after each one, members of the Sung family wept and em- cooperating with the prosecutors.” braced one another in State Supreme Court in Manhattan.” As a purely legal matter, there was a central irony in the prosecu- The bank’s employees who had been indicted were either tion’s case. The DA claimed that the mortgage loans that Abacus sold acquitted or had the charges against them dropped. The trial to Fannie Mae were fraudulent because they were riddled with poor or had kept an employee from attending his mother’s funeral improper documentation and hidden risks. But if Fannie Mae was the in Hong Kong, and he was so traumatized by the ordeal that victim, the DA could not point to any tangible harm. During the time he can no longer bring himself to sign a check. Defending period of the indictment, Abacus sold 3,000 mortgages to Fannie Mae. the bank cost the Sungs $10 million in legal fees, and likely Only nine had defaulted. As for the claims of fraudulent documenta- another $10 million in lost business. tion, the defense introduced into evidence a 2012 email from Fannie In a statement to the press drafted with his daughters’ Mae to Abacus which read, “We recognize that you have very unique input, Thomas said, “This wrongful prosecution has ex- needs that are closely linked to the borrowers you serve. While doing hausted a small community bank such as ours. This is a gross anything customized in this environment is very difficult, the team is injustice, not only to a small bank, but is casting a shadow on committed to doing whatever we can to develop solutions that meet the our community. This is totally prejudicial and incorrect.” needs of your culturally unique clientele.” The DA’s office was unrepentant. In a startling twist on the Sometimes members of Abacus’ “culturally unique clientele” were foundational American ideal of “innocent until proven guilty,” assisted in quests to purchase homes with monies provided by family one of the prosecutors said, “Abacus was not exonerated. Exon- and friends—a cultural practice known as hui. The prosecution deemed eration is when a person is proven innocent. I don’t think there’s the bank’s use of gift letters to document these monies to be fraud. These anything here that says that Abacus was proven innocent.” “gifts,” the prosecution said, were in fact loans, and contributed to the The Sungs are healing from their ordeal, and drawing insecurity of the mortgages originated by Abacus. But in the culture of strength from the voice that the documentary has given them. the bank’s clients, these monies were neither gifts nor loans, but some- Vera, Chanterelle, and Jill speak around the country, raising thing more akin to support, given without expectation of repayment. awareness about prosecutorial overreach and the plight of The defense relied on the bank’s miniscule default rate as evidence that underbanked cultural communities in America. Abacus is its lending judgments were sound and not fraudulent. Whereupon, the now turning a profit and has resumed making loans. prosecution told the judge during a pretrial hearing that the Sungs were Most of all, Abacus is back to fulfilling its mission. “My demanding that a cultural exception be made for them because they are dad has always said to us that if he ever saw that the com- Chinese, and Chinese people don’t default on their loans. That cultural munity did not need him anymore, he would have no qualms smack still stings. “We were not saying that we deserved an exception. in closing the bank, because that’s what he formed it for—the And how can we know that people are not going to default on their loans community,” says Vera. “But there is still a need, so we have to other than through sound underwriting?” Vera says. “We were saying still be here, and we have to still do what we are doing.”

Winter 2018 BC LAW MAGAZINE 27 in Five 1Ls share the essays that earned them entrance into law school. PHOTOGRAPHS BY DIANA LEVINE From left, Jorge Toledo, Erika Craven, Jaegun Lee, Samuel Tincher, and Danielle Richmond

Five 1Ls share the essays that earned them entrance into law school. PHOTOGRAPHS BY DIANA LEVINE

29 JAEGUN LEE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST

STEPPING AWAY FROM FEAR

I WAS BORN IN BOSTON, what that meant until much later. In I where my earliest child- Between the ages of ten and hood memories are of nineteen, I pledged allegiance to the bronze ducklings at the Korean flag. My father, who the Public Garden and pledging had never quite adjusted to life allegiance to the American flag in in the US, had returned to his a bright classroom covered with homeland after a decade, with my IN A FAST-PACED WORLD IN WHICH colorful posters. I often associ- mother, my younger sister, and me narratives seem to recede behind the ate the image of that classroom in tow. Until I came back to the bullying force of nonstop news, so- flag with physical pain from US upon graduating high school in cial media snippets, and insta-images, when my uncle had smacked me Seoul, this new world would teach there’s a certain pleasure to be derived in the back of the head. He had me many things—among them, the from the deep breath of a thoughtful es- asked me if I knew who I was. fear of approaching people. say. ¶ The admission statements of five Evidently, “I’m Jaegun. I’m an Not even my sole sibling or American!” wasn’t the answer he closest friends know that I started new BC Law 1Ls provide that respite. had expected from his five-year- a seven-year career in print jour- ¶ In their endeavors to present who old nephew. This was before I nalism to break out of my shell. they are, the then-prospective students even knew what race I belonged Working as a newspaper reporter looked soulfully into their personal his- to, let alone the nationality of my for six years, and later as the tories at the people and experiences that parents. I’m a Korean-American. newsroom digital content editor shaped them and then at how those ele- But I did not come to understand for a year, forced me to be aggres- ments coalesced into a desire to study the law. The process exposed painful memories, but—as writing often does— it also revealed unexpected insights and the delights of self-discovery. ¶ Thus, in this second reprise of a BC Law Magazine feature introducing members of an incoming class, the students write about the ostracism of being a child in a foreign land—or even in a new school. One speaks of being influenced by revolutionary-minded grandparents. Another tells of postponing adulthood by accepting a fairytale job. Each, in one way or another, tells the story of finding one’s own voice and then using that voice to help others. ¶ Regardless of their disparate journeys, they all, in the end, arrived at the doorstep of Bos- ton College Law School. Collectively, they say a lot about the Class of 2020.

30 BC LAW MAGAZINE Winter 2015 sive, curious, and critical of grew older, I was determined to the stories I reported on as find the voice I had lost. I decided well as the articles I approved to immerse myself in organiza- for publication. tions that placed me in a position Despite reporting for my to speak about social issues, and I college’s daily newspaper as engaged more with students in col- an undergraduate student and laborative efforts. Along the way, interning at the Associated I learned that my voice became Press Television Network, stronger when I had something it wasn’t until I became a important to say. In other words, full-time staff writer for the my voice came with a purpose. Watertown Daily Times in My story is unique but has a northern New York that the common theme of bullying based anxiety of approaching strang- on colorism and trying to live up ers subsided. For six years, to certain beauty standards as a I worked in a high-pressure black woman. I have found that lost environment that required voices are also common among the every reporter to meet a daily children I work with as a depen- deadline of 11 p.m., and adapt dency case manager. Many of them to unpredictable schedules are survivors of abuse and neglect. and long working hours. While Imagine being a victim of such I would eventually move on DANIELLE RICHMOND UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA circumstances and being unable to to work as a speechwriter express how you really feel because for a former UN ambassador you are afflicted with guilt and and as the main editor for a shame. Many children in the child globally distributed scholarly A LONG-LOST welfare system are emotionally and magazine, it was that intense behaviorally scarred. In most cases, newsroom environment that their lack of trust in others has pushed me to overcome my VOICE IS FOUND discouraged them from building deep-rooted fear of people. healthy relationships and speaking An ancient Korean proverb up on matters of utmost impor- says, “You turn dark in a dark tance. Their voice is their purpose. place; white in a white place.” “HMM, YOU WOULD BE usually kept to myself and spoke If the cycle continues and their Simply put, an individual’s pretty if you would do very little. This allowed many voice is lost, so is their purpose. surroundings will often define H something with your people, educators included, to As a case manager, I work hand that person’s characteristics. hair,” stated my friend. overlook me and label me as shy. in hand with my clients to help Failing my uncle’s identity Yes, you read correctly, I consid- Though I had accomplished my them achieve the types of lives test as a kid was a prelude to ered this person my friend. The goal of keeping quiet, my reserved they desire. Although this experi- the hardships, confusion, and off-handed comment was one disposition and tendency to hold ence has been rewarding, I believe solitude I would experience of the least rude in a collection back in social settings affected my it is my time to advocate for them in Korea through my teenage of condescending, bullying, and confidence and sense of self. on a larger level. I’ve observed years. But all of my adult life, name-calling experiences. I was Whenever I was bullied at that there is a huge disconnect I have actively sought new in the third grade and recently school or church, I refused to let a between what occurs in the case environments that would help placed in a new school in an un- trusted adult know. I was ashamed management field and in the court shape me into the person that familiar city. At this point, I could of what was happening to me and system: I have seen decisions I wish to become. take all the “friends” I could get, didn’t want to be seen as a snitch. made that do not reflect the de- Writing about renewable even if it meant receiving hurtful I began to internalize the hateful tails of a case and do not properly energy development as a words, or being spoken of behind messages, making myself believe address the child’s best interests. reporter as well as volunteer- my back. Because of my short that I was truly not beautiful and I would like to bridge this gap by ing at sustainable agriculture hair—which may have led people not worthy of having any valuable attending law school and one day and wildlife protection groups to think I was a boy—my buck friendships. The social interac- becoming a family court judge. after college gave me a new teeth, and dark skin tone, I was the tions spiraled into my academ- As Frederick Douglass stated, focus. I believe Boston Col- brunt of dirty stares and words of ics; I was a remarkable student “It is easier to build strong chil- lege Law School is the right ridicule. Mostly, no one wanted to on paper, getting straight A’s and dren than to repair broken men.” environment for me to take be associated with me. excelling among my peers, but I I welcome the opportunity to help my next step towards becom- Since I was clearly judged barely spoke my mind in class. children in their greatest times of ing a legal expert in the field of and seen only by my appearance, This learned behavior carried need and to restore voices to those green development. I refused to be heard as well; I on for many years, though as I who have none.

Winter 2015 BC LAW MAGAZINE 31 we moved to Miami, Florida. In I found myself questioning my middle school, I enrolled in an participation in this restricted introductory Speech and Debate educational enterprise. class and, after a few weeks, the I was recruited to the pres- teacher asked if I could fill in for a tigious debate team at UC high school debater who had got- Berkeley—but once I made the ten sick the day before the biggest transition to college and I saw tournament in the country, the more clearly the stratification of Glenbrooks, in Illinois. Although educational opportunities, my the one-day crash-course on logic doubts grew. At the same time, I and politics was not enough to get began noticing that the activity me to the elimination rounds, the was having an adverse effect on experience sparked a new passion my relationship with learning. I within me: I fell in love with the was exposing myself to various discussions on serious political is- ideas and philosophies purely for sues, the critical thinking about dif- the sake of competition. I would ferent philosophical concepts, and, immerse myself in scholarship of course, the thrill of competition. and literature with the primary Debate quickly took over. I motivation of manipulating these joined the high school team and schools of thought to suit my committed myself to being great. strategic needs, rather than seek- I spent every summer attending a genuine understanding of ing debate camps at prestigious what these thinkers believed and universities. I obsessed over lis- why. I tended to focus on polemi- tening to lectures from scholars, cal writers at the extremes of their JORGE TOLEDO UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY discussing argument construction subjects, who were more likely to with my peers, and researching make grandiose, absolutist claims everything from local news to law that could lend more firepower to reviews. I went on to win various my arguments. The careful con- REVOLUTIONS national tournaments and eventu- sideration of contingent circum- ally reached a top-three rank- stances and contradictory coun- ing in the country; but the most ternarratives, demanded of a more BIG AND SMALL meaningful moment came in my distinguished scholar, did not senior year, during the semifinals suit my needs. I feared that this of the Glenbrooks. In front of impoverished relationship with hundreds of people, I delivered learning would now undermine I WAS BORN IN SAN JUAN, of great political instability. Al- the final speech of the round. As my ability to authentically engage Puerto Rico, to parents of though the Castro regime placed the timer went off, I turned to see with the topics I cared about. I I Spanish and Cuban ances- heavy restrictions on emigration my partner smiling confidently. left debate behind to begin a new try. My maternal grand- from Cuba, my paternal grand- My determination had proven to pedagogical venture centered on mother was raised in San Juan by father participated in a special be enough to secure our spot in finding truth and understanding. her grandfather, Jose de Diego, an agricultural program that allowed the final round of the very same Upon graduating, I worked as a active voice of the Puerto Rican his family to move to Puerto Rico. tournament that had inspired my paralegal at Simmons and Ungar, independence movement in the Although my father arrived there obsession five years earlier. LLP on immigration matters and late nineteenth century. As an at a relatively young age, his expe- Competitive debate provided as a volunteer for the Lawyers independentista, he fought for riences with radical revolution in me with a foundation in rigorous Commission for Civil Rights on sovereignty and the equal rights of Cuba would fundamentally shape research, persuasive argumenta- asylum cases to learn how legal in- Puerto Ricans under colonial rule. his political ideology throughout tion, and critical thinking—but it stitutions shape ideas of member- My grandmother was a firsthand his life. Needless to say, conver- also gave me the tools to analyze ship, participation, and inclusion witness to his struggle for equal- sations at my dinner table were my own perspective. Although the in society. With every case, I got ity, as the status of our island was often intense and contentious. activity was ostensibly open to exposure to the real effects that the debated and its future decided. I While my grandmother echoed people from all walks of life, the law can have on a person’s sense of have vivid memories of sitting on the idealistic outlook of her most privileged students from the identity, security, and belonging. her lap and listening to stories of upbringing, my father warned of best schools were consistently at These experiences convinced me de Diego’s battle for the people of the suffering that can result from the top and the norms of the activ- that my calling is to use the oppor- Puerto Rico. unsuccessful implementations of ity reflected the ideologies of this tunities that I’ve been blessed with My father was born in Las utopian concepts. elite class. As a child of relative to give a voice to people who may Villas, Cuba, in the 1950s at a time When I reached the age of nine, poverty from a colonial territory, not otherwise have one.

32 BC LAW MAGAZINE Winter 2015 and sometimes even touch my torian of my high school. This SAMUEL TINCHER BEREA COLLEGE skin or hair. My response was challenge was different from always the same: I was born and others I had taken on; this time, it raised in Japan—just like them— was to prove that I could succeed but to American parents. in an area where no one believed I GET TO DECIDE My appearance and nation- I could. With determination ality came with a unique set of and perseverance, I disproved expectations. It was a given that expectations and raised my grades WHO I AM I would outperform all others in in all courses—often finishing traditionally western sports, ace first inkanji tests. When the day every English exam, and possess of graduation finally came, I was expert knowledge on all US trivia. honored with the valedictorian AS MY MOTHER DROVE and then again when I took my It often came as a surprise when I award, which meant more to me me to my first day of place in line to receive my class- performed well on Japanese lan- than an acknowledgement of A high school, I mentally room assignment in junior high. guage, history, or culture-related my dedication to coursework; it rehearsed the questions Assuming I could not under- exams or knew how to write a was proof that I could overcome and comments I knew I would stand them, kids would shout to word that my classmates could challenges—regardless of others’ hear. They would no doubt echo their friends that they were in the not. When another student scored suppositions about me. the words I heard on my first day same class as the gaijin (Japanese poorly on a quiz or exam, it was That summer I left Japan to at- of elementary school, and later slang for foreigner), ask me in because they lacked focus or were tend college in the United States. when I introduced myself at the their halting English if I could unprepared; when I did, it was be- Strangely, the challenge that now school I transferred to at age nine, speak Japanese or use chopsticks, cause I was a foreigner. This never raised its head came in the form angered me, but on some days of what I had initially yearned frustration overcame me. I wished for in Japan: to fit in. People who I could be perceived the same way shared my appearance seemed to as everyone else. think I would behave similarly to The pressure I felt to live up to them, yet so much about them was others’ expectations pushed me foreign to me. What used to be my to research American events that strongest courses in Japan, those might come up in conversation, as related to the US and the West, well as to perfect my grammatical became my weakest. Again, I dedi- knowledge. Naturally, I per- cated time and effort to courses in formed well in English classes. which I struggled, determined not But because of my dedication to to fall behind, and successfully the basketball team, my other raised my grades. subjects suffered. I spent almost These experiences taught me all my free time practicing, a broader lesson about who I was. training, or watching basketball I realized that no matter what instead of studying for the classes environment I was in, people everyone seemed to think I would were going to make assumptions do poorly in anyway. My aca- about me, and I shouldn’t let demic standing was subpar. I fit those dictate my behavior. The the gaijin role that had been laid realization freed me to find and out for me. follow my own ambitions. Life is This was all about to change. not about shoulds or should nots; Early in my second semester, a rather, it’s about what you do or knee injury left me with consid- do not do. Only by laying aside erable spare time that I decided my concern about the notions to use to study for the upcoming of others have I discovered who midterms, especially for my weak- I really am. Driven by my own est courses. When the midterm curiosity, I have come to appreci- results were released, to my (and ate that indeed, “learning is its many classmates’) astonishment, own reward.” I had ranked seventh overall in my My ambitions remain the same class (my rank prior to midterms today. I look forward with confi- was in the 25th percentile). dence to meeting the challenges That day, I set a goal: I was and new experiences that attend- going to graduate as the valedic- ing law school will bring.

Winter 2015 BC LAW MAGAZINE 33 ERIKA CRAVEN HAMILTON COLLEGE

WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR

I AM A PRINCESS. I don’t trying to keep up with my hockey- mean that I have royal playing older brother. I kept skat- I blood or come from mil- ing, not because I was naturally lions of dollars. I have not gifted (I wasn’t), but because I fell had everything handed to me, in love with the movement, the nor have I awaited a prince in expression, and the athleticism. an ivory tower. I am a princess After almost twenty years, I was because every day I lace up my not ready to let go the sacrifices, tired pair of figure skates and the tears, and the ultimate elation twirl through the air. My castle that graced the sport. I had to see is a never-ending series of hotel this through. On the other hand, rooms, where I have learned to I joined Disney because I don’t cook with a hot plate and wash think I was quite ready for “the clothes in the sink. My royal real world.” I saw Disney’s phone wardrobe contains just two pairs call as the beacon to hold on to my of slacks and six pairs of workout childhood a little longer, to play pants carefully packed in one dress-up, to postpone adulthood. fifty-pound bag half-full of books. But the funny thing is, the reality My royal family is from places was quite the opposite. While I like Russia, Estonia, and Japan. do dress up as a princess (or as a I travel for ten months at a time. sea creature or even as cutlery), I miss holidays with my family. I have found new purpose in the Yet the second my blades touch needs and aspirations shared by the ice and I gaze into the crowd, people around the world. I am inspired. What I do is more In my three years with Disney, than skate. Sometimes I bring my passport has become tattered, stories to children who do not bearing stamps from places have much hope in their lives. like Qatar, Peru, and Argentina. And even sometimes the crowd’s Although my memories brim delight is my respite from my with images of stunning scen- own hardships. ery, beautiful monuments, and, I figure skate professionally of course, hours perfecting and for Disney on Ice. I am a Disney performing on the ice, my most princess. notable recollections are linked Shortly after I graduated from to the people. Closing my eyes college, I received a phone call. I can still see throngs of Brazil- Two days later, I was on a plane ians marching beneath my hotel alone jumping into a life per- in Fortaleza. Chants of “Contra fumed with promises of foreign o Golpe!” “Against the Coup!” marvels and lavish, sequined floated on the night air to my costumes. In part, I joined Disney tenth floor window and sirens on Ice because I simply could not bounced off the concrete walls let go of figure skating. surrounding me. I first trundled across the ice While the protests I wit- at the age of three holding on to nessed in Brazil stemming from my father’s hand and desperately the crumbling economy and

34 BC LAW MAGAZINE Winter 2015 impeachment of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff were eye-opening, I was more Where They Are Now struck by the conversations THE ESSAYISTS FROM THE CLASS OF 2017 REAP THE REWARDS OF LAW SCHOOL. swirling in the local markets about the political situa- In Winter 2015, BC Law Magazine featured “Writing tion. Echoed in some way or Their Way into Law School,” outstanding admission another was the craving for essays by five students from widely differing back- grounds in the Class of 2017. We recently caught up with justice. Even in instances them in their first weeks as practicing lawyers, and heard where political upheaval was about their current challenges and opportunities. not a focus, I found myself en- gaging with passionate people Zain Ahmad’s commute is a fifteen-minute walk who simply desired fairness, through Manhattan to his office at Goodwin, LLP, in opportunities, and a voice. A the New York Times building. “I knew what I signed Chilean woman once begged up for!” says Ahmad, who factored in late nights at the office when choosing his apartment. Now he applies me to contact the United the trouble-shooting skills showcased in his essay—he States embassy to help her planned a 500-person Pakistani wedding for his sister— when she was denied access to to providing a sound legal foundation for “early stage a flight to see her family. Two start-ups and tech companies.” Middle Eastern girls once laid As an army officer, saysJennawe Hughes, a West their robes and scarves aside Point graduate who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, you to dance and play with me un- learn to take responsibility and to work independently. til a man walked by the open Having been instrumental while oversees in the arrest door and they hid, ashamed. of a suspect who had injured a soldier, she came to And countless times I have the realization that “the most powerful weapon in my arsenal to be used against terrorists was not a rifle, but found myself in awe of the the proper application of the rule of law.” Now, that incredible children I have met experience is proving invaluable at Christopher Hays through Disney’s partnership Wojcik & Mavricos LLP in Worcester. She is on the with Make-A-Wish and other front line wrestling with business litigation, trusts, and charity programs. estates, while juggling clients and court appearances. In a small firm, she says, “you handle what comes at you.” The past three years have been my “Disney Education.” “I feel like there’s this puzzle that I can’t quite put to- While college prepared me for gether yet, but I’m starting to see how the pieces fit in,” success, Disney has prepared says Jeremy Levesque, an associate in the asset-based me for life. I have experienced lending group at Boston-based Riemer & Braunstein. His essay described the grit he needed to succeed as humanity in ways I never ex- a first-generation college student from a blue-collar pected. My position in Disney background. Levesque says he’s grateful every day for has strengthened my voice, Professor Ingrid Hillinger’s Secured Transactions class. confidence, and courage. I not Hillinger is “a kind of celebrity at the firm,” he says. only work to inspire young “Everyone knows her name!” audience members, but the “I’m reminded all the time that we’re not doing brain people on my journey have surgery, and if we get something wrong, all we need to inspired me. This experience do is fix it,” saysCharlene Ochogo, who has found has shaped me into a princess a supportive, diverse workplace at Harter Secrest & beyond my job title. Emery LLP in Rochester, NY. Ochogo, who wrote in her essay about being “a spot of brown in a sea of The princess I aspire to white” when her family moved from Kenya to Kentucky be is courageous, selfless, and in 1994, is a strong believer in law as a driver of human determined to invoke change. progress. She values the firm’s encouragement of pro- She wants to use legislative av- bono efforts, which allow her to work with non-profits, enues to uphold fairness—not alongside her business and corporate practice. to produce a generic version of Mai Zymaris practiced for four years as a lawyer in success, but to provide others her native Vietnam before completing an LLM degree with tangible means of reach- at Harvard Law School and then her JD at BC Law. ing their own dreams. She Leaving Vietnam, she knew she was taking a big risk, doesn’t want to rule a king- rebuilding her career from scratch in the US. Now working on mergers and acquisitions and venture capital at dom, but she wants to use her Boston-based Foley Hoag, she says: “I saw more op- experiences and opportunities portunities in the US to work with the best minds in the to give others a voice. legal industry, and I have found them at Foley Hoag.”

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Raised in the crucible of Communist

BY Romania, scholar

JERI ZEDER

PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANA SMITH VLAD PERJU mounts an inspired GLOBAL CAMPAIGN against the foes of constitutional DEMOCRACY.

THE FREEDOM FIGHTER

DECEMBER 22, 1989, WAS A BIG DAY FOR ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD VLAD PERJU. His family had been waiting for two decades to buy a new car. That’s just the way things were in Romania under Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Now the day had finally arrived, and he and his family were off to the dealership. ¶ What Vlad could not have known was that history would change that very day. A week earlier, a mass protest had erupted in the Romanian city of Timisoara. Ceasescu ordered troops to fire. Dozens of protesters were killed,

sparking demonstrations throughout the country. On the very hour look at developments this past summer, from Turkey to Venezuela and the Perju family was gathered at the car dealership, the revolution hit from Hungary to Poland, to get a sense of the magnitude of this chal- the capital of Bucharest. “When they announced on the radio that ‘the lenge,” he says. dictator had fled,’ all the people there jumped to hug and kiss me—I was The Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy was the only child there—saying this was too late for them, but for me, this established in 2007 by Gloria and Charles Clough for the express pur- was going to mean freedom,” Perju recalls. “And they were right.” pose of meeting that challenge by reinvigorating and reimagining the What Perju experienced in Romania shaped what he would eventu- study of constitutional democracy in the twenty-first century. ally make his life’s work: exploring the development of constitutional Charles Clough, chair and CEO of the investment firm Clough Capi- democracy as a field of study, which he does as a professor at BC Law tal Partners, is a student of history and a world traveler. His thinking and as the director of BC’s Clough Center for the Study of Constitution- has been influenced by some of the greatest events of his lifetime: the al Democracy. “What happened to my country was a fundamental ques- collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of Nelson Mandela as the leader tion that drew me to politics more generally,” Perju says. He wanted of a free South Africa, the plight of China in the 1980s. Clough observes to know how law shaped society, how law interacted with culture, and that at the turn of this young century, constitutional democracy seemed how different societies interacted with each other. Today, he teaches to be in pretty good shape all over the world, but that has been changing. modern legal theory, European Union law, and American constitution- “Today, we see it under assault, even in the US,” he says. “A smaller per- al law, publishes extensively on comparative constitutional law and centage of citizens in the Western world view democracy as necessary theory, presents his scholarship at conferences as far away as Rome, for personal freedom, human rights, prosperity, and economic develop- Melbourne, and Prague, and runs a singular program addressing the ment. Democracy is anything but assured in the modern world.” growing threat to constitutional democracy worldwide. The Clough Center reflects Clough’s choice to support constitu- For Perju, that threat centers most recently on the problem of tional democracy through study and the development of young people: populism. Populism, he says, “plays by the rules set out by the consti- “I thought the academic approach would have more long-lasting effect tution but is contrary to the spirit of a constitutional democracy— than trying to do something in the political sphere,” he says. Perju’s ex- contrary, that is, to the pluralism that animates the project of consti- perience and interests dovetailed with Clough’s, a timely coincidence tutional democracy.” that led to Perju’s appointment as the center’s director in 2012. As an example, Perju cites Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s efforts Perju’s goal is an ambitious one: to make the center one of the most to undermine the judicial independence of Hungary’s Constitutional significant and important institutions for the study of constitutional Court. “He pushed out a large number of judges by imposing a new age democracy in the world. “The university is fully behind that vision,” limit for retirement,” Perju explains. “Orbán then naturally proceeded Perju says. “We have done our very best over the past four or five years to appoint new constitutional judges loyal to his agenda, in addition to to become that—that is, to organize as many conferences as we can, to continuing to curtail the court’s jurisdiction and powers.” Populism, in always see through what comes out of those conferences, to bring the other words, is a kind of constitutional hardball. “It attempts to push people who ask the most urgent and important questions of our time, legal rules to the breaking point,” Perju says. It endangers the constitu- and to integrate students into the work that we do and to rely on their tional democracy, and it is contagious across borders. “One only has to originality and their energy to push us forward.”

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The center brings to its conferences and symposia world-renowned Amid rapid globalization and rising populism, threats speakers like Nobel-laureate Amartya Sen, foreign policy analyst to liberal constitutional democracies are prevalent in Anne-Marie Slaughter, former New York Times executive editor Bill countries like Poland, Turkey, Hungary, and Venzuela. Keller, poet and Guggenheim Foundation president Edward Hirsch, lawyer and political scientist Ayelet Shachar, and more. Additionally, POLAND the center provides fellowships for graduate students, academic law fellowships for law students, and law scholarships for law students en- THREAT Government gaging in pro bono summer public interest work. The center also pro- refused to publish unfavorable decisions vides travel grants to faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students to of Constitutional attend conferences and pursue research around the world. Tribunal in the Official “I think the role that scholars and intellectuals play in conversa- Journal. FIX Get lower courts to hold that the tions about the challenge to constitutional democracy in our time is tribunal’s interpreta- essentially the same role that scholars and intellectuals have always tions are binding even without publication played in history—which is to bring knowledge, to bring expertise, to in the journal. bring a certain coolness of intellect to the problems the world is facing,” Perju says. The Clough Center was one of the first places anywhere to hold a TURKEY conference about populism with leading Central and Eastern Euro- pean constitutionalists. Papers from that conference were published THREAT Change of constitutional regime in a special issue of the renowned International Journal of Constitu- from parliamentary to tional Law. Another conference brought together major editors and presidential and the journalists from some of the world’s greatest newspapers to look at the jailing of journalists. FIX Provide human decline of foreign reporting. With the center’s open-source mind- rights data to organi- set, anyone, anywhere in the world can access the Clough Archive zations like Freedom House in hopes they’ll and learn about events, conferences, and people working on issues downgrade Turkey to relevant to constitutional democracy, and view full lectures on the “not free.” center’s YouTube channel. The Clough Center is also home to the Clough Distinguished Lec- tures in Jurisprudence series. Associate Professor of Law Paulo Barrozo HUNGARY was tasked by Perju with the development of the series, a joint venture THREAT Constitutional with the Law School. That program has brought to the law campus Aus- order overhauled and tralian Justice Michael Kirby (“North Korea through a Jurist’s Eye”); political opponents persecuted since Brazilian Supreme Court Justice L.R. Barroso (“The Roles of Supreme Orban government Courts in Constitutional Democracies”); professor, editor, and author came to power in 2010. Michael Walzer (“What Is the Responsibility to Protect? And What FIX Pressure EU to withhold budgetary Does It Mean in Syria?”); and many more. The Clough Center, Barrozo allocations because says, has put Boston College Law School “at the forefront of the most of repeated violations significant, sophisticated debates and legal thought going on” today. of the rule of law. Barrozo himself was born in Brazil when it was under military rule and saw his country struggle with the transition to constitutional VENEZUELA democracy. He says that constitutional democracies are vulnerable to the cyclical susceptibility of people to leaders who offer simple THREAT President answers in a complex world. He believes that we are again at that called on Constitu- tional Assembly to point in the cycle where people are falling for simplifiers. What’s draft new constitution new today, however, is that our world is globalized. “So,” he says, “we to replace 1999 one. have these two challenges in our hands right now. One is many feel FIX Apply pressure from international that they need someone who can simplify life for them. The Trump bodies, such as administration in the United States is a good example of that. On the Organization of Amer- other hand, we need to rethink the institution we have inherited for ican States, against Maduro Regime. the new world in which we live.”

Winter 2018 BC LAW MAGAZINE 39 In February, 2017, twenty-eight years after Romanians toppled their dictatorship, protestors took to the streets again in the name of democracy, this time to fight a decree seen as soft on government corruption.

The Clough Center’s response is decidedly complex and interdis- programs that use social services to try to identify whether someone ciplinary. Such thinking comes naturally to Perju, cultivated when he will become a “violent extremist.” was still in Romania, where he and a handful of extraordinary teachers At one of the Clough Center’s weekly workshops where graduate and friends read and studied things not taught in Romanian schools. students have their scholarly writings critiqued by peers, Morgan pre- He learned that there is a unity to human knowledge that defies dis- sented a draft of her article. It received a thorough going-over by gradu- ciplinary boundaries, an understanding that he applies vigorously to ate students and faculty from departments from all over the university. Clough’s programming. “Some of the most interesting and intriguing Describing her thesis, Morgan says, “I was starting from an assumption progress that we have seen in the academy has been of the kind that that violating people’s privacy is wrong, that singling out people on transcends these kinds of boundaries,” Perju says. account of religion is wrong.” Her workshop colleagues encouraged her In that spirit, the Clough Center regularly brings together political to dig deeper, to go beyond claiming these things are wrong to exploring scientists, lawyers, historians, theologians, philosophers, sociologists, why and in what ways they are wrong. “People were very engaged and literary scholars, musicians, and artists. Even mathematicians are gave thoughtful feedback,” she said. “I remember even afterwards that getting in on the act: the Law School, the Math Department, and the several people wanted to meet up and discuss the topic more. It was a Political Science Department recently co-sponsored a Clough Center very intellectual, really helpful group to be part of.” event looking at the mathematics of partisan gerrymandering. Scott Reznick, a PhD candidate in English and the Clough Center’s Students with interdisciplinary interests are finding a support- Graduate Fellow Coordinator, describes a similar experience. “What ive home at the Clough Center. Kelly Morgan ’18, for example, is will often happen at about thirty-five to forty minutes into a discus- pursuing a dual degree in law and social work. A public interest law sion, once a lot of the issues have been brought out and a lot of people scholar, she also serves as the center’s law fellow coordinator. She’s start disagreeing with each other, Vlad will come in with his immense

writing a law review article on the emergence of national security learning and his very keen wit and will put your paper into the larger GHIRDA AP PHOTO/VADIM

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vene people whose interactions with each other will likely spark new PERJU’S GOAL thinking. He once brought a scholar from the University of Toronto to participate in a graduate student’s workshop because he thought her IS AN AMBITIOUS input would be germane, for example. Michael Franczak, a Graduate Fellow in the Clough Center, has ONE: TO MAKE also been a beneficiary of Perju’s network. “Vlad has a big Rolodex,” Franczak says. “He knows a lot of very smart, important people, and has THE CLOUGH provided us with some tremendous opportunities to meet some of them. I have met the former prime minister of Greece, former president of CENTER ONE Ireland. I have met a US Attorney General, and more. Vlad is very insis- tent on creating opportunities for us that advance our careers and really make the center a vehicle for advanced graduate students on campus.” OF THE MOST If Perju is helping students like Franczak, a doctoral candidate in history working on a dissertation on economics and human rights in SIGNIFICANT 1970s US foreign policy, to advance their careers, he is also showing them how to advance knowledge. For example, while researching the AND IMPORTANT Bretton Woods Conference of 1944, which resulted in the creation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, Franczak INSTITUTIONS FOR unearthed archival material that provided new evidence of India, China, Australia, and New Zealand having had a greater impact on the develop- THE STUDY OF ment of the IMF than was previously thought. His paper on the subject was accepted at a conference in the Netherlands. The center flew CONSTITUTIONAL Franczak to attend. “Out of that conference came a new book that significantly reinterprets very important events,” Franczak says. It’s called Global Perspectives on the Bretton Woods Conference and the Post-War DEMOCRACY World Order (Palgrave MacMillan 2017). Franczak has a chapter in it. Similarly, when Martin Bernales, a doctoral student in philosophy, IN THE WORLD. approached Perju about a conference on the topic of violence that he was organizing at BC, it didn’t matter to Perju that he didn’t know Bernales or that Bernales was not involved with the Clough Center at the time. arc of human thought as it has unfolded over the past 300 to 400 years,” He immediately offered Bernales the resources of the center, believing Reznick says. “It is always so eye-opening to see how he does that with that violence, and specifically the distinction between legitimate and papers that are so different in nature.” illegitimate forms of violence, is central to understanding constitutional Reznick began his BC career a bit at sea. His interest was literature democracy. Perju saw in Bernales’ proposal a chance for Clough to ex- and politics, but it seemed to him that the field was dominated by a plore that topic—which has a long history in legal and political thought— narrow, predictable set of themes. “Any time I would read an article, I through the arts and other social sciences. And he helped Bernales thought, ‘I feel like I’ve read this article at least a dozen times,” he says. connect with an Israeli filmmaker who was living in France, a move that “I felt that literary scholars had either forgotten or hastily dismissed led to a film festival becoming a centerpiece of the conference. questions of citizenship and autonomy and political life.” His partici- Bernales has since joined the Clough Center as a Graduate Fellow. pation in the Clough Center’s interdisciplinary workshops revealed to “What I see in Vlad is a real passion for learning and understanding,” him new ways of thinking about politics and literature. “The Clough says Bernales, who practiced criminal law in Chile. “He is a very well- experience has been so helpful to me because I am really trying to work trained lawyer, but he knows that the law doesn’t respond to every- at the disciplinary boundaries between literary studies and political thing. There is sort of, I would say, a kind of urgency in him to under- theories, philosophy and historical analysis,” he says. Reznick’s thesis stand and also to share with others this quest.” explores the impact that shifting conceptions of democracy had on lit- “We are very fortunate,” says BC Law professor Barrozo, “for being erature in the years between the ratification of the US Constitution and in a university that is not shying away from the challenges to constitu- the Civil War. He analyzes not only novels, short stories, and poems, tional democracy, that we have a center that places us on the forefront but also essays, political speeches, oratory, and slave narratives. of facing those challenges, and that we have, in the mind of Vlad Perju, Perju’s vast connections are of great value to such thinkers. He a mind whose scope matches the dimensions of the problem here. Vlad is a great scholarly matchmaker, known to go out of his way to con- Perju is an extraordinary mind, and that is very rare to come about.”

Winter 2018 BC LAW MAGAZINE 41 Alumni News and Events of Note

GENERATIONS 42 CLASS NOTES 43

SPOTLIGHTS Dorothy Whelan 43 Kathleen Hamill 44 Kevin Barry 45 ACLU Leaders 45 Paul Mullaney 46 Angela K. Doan 47 ALUMNI NEWS 48 CLICK 50 ADVANCING EXCELLENCE 52

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FROM RIGHT, ROBERT S. CREEDON JR. ’67, HIS DAUGHTER JENNIFER A. CREEDON ’97, HER COUSIN JOHN “JACK” CREEDON ’04, AND HIS WIFE ALYSSA MURPHY CREEDON ’03.

42 Photograph by CAITLIN CUNNINGHAM Written and edited by Deborah J. Wakefield and Margie Palladino ’85

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James T. Grady was Mutual Insurance Company in Walter J. Sullivan honored with the Providence, RI. He was previously a Jr., after more than 59 2017 John J. Sbrega founding partner at Partridge Snow 88 twenty years in gov- Exemplary Service Award by Bristol Hahn LLP. ernment, is of counsel in the Boston Community College in Fall River, office of Preti Flaherty and serves as MA, for his invaluable contributions Robert J. Ambrogi is a lobbyist for Preti Strategies, an af- as a former member of the college’s one of three recipi- filiate government, public, and busi- foundation board and board of 80 ents of the Yankee ness affairs company of the firm. His trustees. Quill Award presented by the Acad- practice is focused on government emy of New England Journalists in and public affairs, labor and employ- Thomas E. Peisch was recognition of his lifetime contribu- ment issues, and the representation reappointed chair of tion to excellence in journalism in of regulated industries. 74 the Board of Trustees New England. He is principal at the of MassBay Community College. Law Office of Robert J. Ambrogi in Brian C. Dunning is He is a partner at Conn, Kavanaugh, Rockport, MA, and serves as execu- a partner at Cohen Rosenthal, Peisch & Ford LLP in tive director of the Massachusetts 90 Tauber Spievack & Boston and focuses on commercial Newspaper Publishers Association. Wagner PC in New York, NY, and and tort litigation. concentrates his practice on advis- DOROTHY P. Nelson G. Apjohn was ing clients, particularly from Spain WHELAN ’87 Hon. Ellen Segal named a fellow of the and Latin America, facing litigation Credentials SM in polymers or arbitration in the US and other Huvelle, a senior judge 81 American College from Massachusetts Institute of 75 of the United States of Trial Lawyers. A partner in the venues. Technology and BS in chemistry from Yale University. District Court for the District of Boston office of Nutter, McClennen Michelle R. Peirce is one of five Cir- Focus Columbia, was presented with the & Fish LLP, he is also a senior fellow cle of Excellence honorees named Patent law with extensive expe- American Inns of Court Profes- of the Litigation Counsel of America by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly at rience on post-grant proceedings. Victory Won three much- sionalism Award for the DC Circuit and chair of the Standing Advisory the 2017 Top Women of Law event heralded inter partes reviews at the circuit’s Judicial Conference Committee on the Rules of Civil and in November. A partner at Donoghue (IPRs) for Coherus BioSciences in June. Appellate Procedure of the Supreme Barrett & Singal PC in Boston and in 2017 that invalidated three Judicial Court of Massachusetts. co-chair of the firm’s litigation prac- patents covering competitor AbbVie’s blockbuster biologic Thomas E. Lynch III, a tice, she focuses her practice in the drug Humira. Raising the Bar principal in the Fred- Eric D. Daniels was areas of complex civil litigation and Her work is now a model for 77 erick, MD, office of elected to the Me- white-collar criminal defense. how other biosimilar patents can be successfully attacked Miles & Stockbridge PC, was named troHartford Alliance Joshua D. Rievman is a partner at 86 and challenged. a 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award Board of Directors. The partner in Cohen Tauber Spievack & Wagner honoree by the Maryland Daily charge in the Hartford, CT, office of PC in New York, NY, where he spe- Record at its annual Leadership in Robinson & Cole LLP, he is chair of cializes in the litigation and arbitra- Law event. the firm’s product liability practice tion of commercial disputes. group and a founding member of the Robert C. Troyer, former act- Richard W. Paul, a firm’s manufacturing industry team. ing US attorney for the District of partner in the Troy, Colorado, was appointed full-time to 78 MI, office of Dick- Dorothy P. Whelan the position by US Attorney General inson Wright PLLC, was elected was named to the Jeff Sessions until the US Senate president of the Michigan Defense 87 2017 list of “At- confirms a presidential nominee. He Trial Counsel. torneys of the Year” by Minnesota was also appointed to the Governing Lawyer. She is partner in the Min- Board of the National Crime Gun Brian Spero was neapolis, MN, office of Fish & Rich- Intelligence Center Initiative and is elected president ardson PC and co-chair of the firm’s the first federal prosecutor to serve 79 and CEO of Beacon post-grant practice group. in this position.

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Joseph J. Centeno Germany, was part of a delegation of is a partner in the Air Force and Army judge advocates 93 Philadelphia, PA, and and civilian attorneys from the New York, NY, offices of Buchanan Kaiserslautern Military Community Ingersoll & Rooney PC and co-chair in Germany who attended a Ger- of the firm’s labor and employment man–American Legal Conference in section. Ramstein, Germany, in May 2016.

Jonathan W. Hugg is a Kimberly A. Lowe is a partner in the Phila- co-founding partner 94 delphia, PA, office of 98 at Avisen Legal PA Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis in Minneapolis, MN, and prac- LLP and a member of the firm’s tices in the areas of business law and Litigation Department. He was pre- nonprofit law. She was previously a viously a partner in the Philadelphia senior business lawyer at JUX Law office of Clark Hill PLC. Firm in Plymouth, MN, and a partner at Minneapolis-based Fredrikson & Shaun B. Spencer was Byron PA. In June, she was appointed granted tenure and to a three-year term on the American 95 promoted to associate Bar Association Standing Committee professor of law and associate dean on Pro Bono and Public Service. for academic affairs at the Univer- Susan M. Finegan is the sity of Massachusetts School of Law Erin Powers Brennan is KATHLEEN 2017 recipient of the in Dartmouth, MA. a partner in the Bos- HAMILL ’97 Volunteer Lawyers ton office of Morgan Worked with 91 99 Collaboration Project (VLP) Yvette C. Mendez Frank G. Lowenstein Lewis and a member of the firm’s colleagues at BC Law in 2016 Award for her commitment to the is special envoy for corporate and business transactions to write an ABA resolution on VLP Pro Bono Appellate Project. Israeli-Palestinian practice group. human rights in Turkey that 96 was instrumental in denouncing Additionally, she was presented Negotiations at the United States torture and abuse of Turkish with a 2017 Pro Bono Service Department of State in Washington, Jennifer R. Delgado lawyers and judges after an Award by the Legal Services Corpo- DC. He previously served as senior is of counsel in the attempted coup there. Voca- ration. A partner in the Boston of- advisor to the secretary of state at Phoenix, AZ, of- tion A fellow and scholar at 00 fice of Mintz Levin, she also serves the US Department of State. fice of Burch & Cracchiolo PA and the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and as co-chair of the Massachusetts practices in the areas of real estate a visiting assistant professor at Access to Justice Commission and Kathleen Hamill law and business and corporate law. the Fletcher School of Law and is a member of the Supreme Judi- participated in the Previously, she was founder and Diplomacy. As a Law Student cial Court’s Standing Committee on First Global Conflict principal of the Delgado Law Group “I recall thinking we had a re- 97 Pro Bono Legal Services. Medicine Congress at American PLC in Phoenix. sponsibility to make the world a better place in whatever John E. Henry, the principal at University of Beirut in Lebanon in way we could.” Favorite Text Marlinspike LLC in Weston, MA, May. A human rights lawyer and a Wendie E. Murstein “Dean Coquillette’s Lawyers was elected to the Board of Direc- fellow at the François-Xavier Bag- is a partner at Fields and Fundamental Moral tors of the New England Foundation noud Center for Health and Human and Dennis LLP in Responsibility—I keep it close 01 for the Arts. Rights at Harvard University, she Wellesley Hills, MA, and practices at hand as it continues to guide my work today.” is also a visiting faculty member in the areas of domestic relations Megan E. Carroll is at the Fletcher School of Law and and family law. a financial special- Diplomacy at Tufts University in Briana E. Thibeau is deputy 92 ist/client relations Medford, MA. general counsel at National Public manager at the Bullfinch Group, a David W. Penczar, staff judge Radio in Washington, DC. She was financial services firm headquar- advocate of the 86th Airlift Wing previously assistant chief counsel at tered in Needham, MA. stationed at Ramstein Air Base, Time Warner Cable.

44 BC LAW MAGAZINE Winter 2018 TRANSGENDER DISABILITY RIGHTS

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COMMON UNION: LEADERS IN THE ACLU IN NEW ENGLAND For the last one hundred years, the American Civil Liberties Union has carried the torch that was lit here in New England during the nation’s revolutionary days to protect civil rights and civil liberties. Currently, the ACLU in three New England states have BC Law alumni on their leadership teams, each of whom is leaving his own imprint on the advancement of the ACLU’s goals.

1. What started as 2. Gavi Wolfe ’07 is 3. Jay Diaz ’12 joined a mission to end legislative director at the ACLU of Vermont solitary confinement the ACLU of Massa- as a staff attorney in Maine for prisoners chusetts. He lobbies at in 2015 and was its with mental illness, the State House on a interim policy director became, for Zachary range of issues and is for a very success- Alumnus Contributes to Landmark Opinion Heiden ’02, legal particularly concerned ful 2017 legislative director of the ACLU about any increased session. He works to Kevin Barry ’00 A civil rights issue that gender people experience as a result of of Maine, an op- government intrusion combat the crimi- Quinnipiac law professor Kevin Barry identifying with the gender different portunity to make the into private aspects nalization of poverty ’00 has been pondering for nearly a than the one designated at birth—is a state a national leader of people’s lives and and, in the case of decade—as legislative advocate, scholar, medical condition.” in prison reform, government activity immigrants, to protect and civil rights lawyer—came to a his- That distinction opens the door for reducing significantly becoming more secre- them from police-ICE toric turning point last year when a US transgender people who have, had, or are the solitary confine- tive. He advocates collaboration and to judge ruled that a transgender woman perceived as having gender dysphoria to ment for all prisoners for privacy rights in push back against could bring a discrimination claim under pursue civil rights protections under the in his jurisdiction. the digital age as well efforts to target the Americans with Disabilities Act ADA, Barry said. Coming from the as for government immigrant activists. based on gender dysphoria. Subsequent to the court’s ruling, the private sector, Heiden transparency. Given The need to advocate The landmark decision by Pennsyl- Trump administration in July filed a acknowledges that he the current political for individual rights vania US District Court Judge Joseph statement of interest in a separate fed- didn’t have the typical climate, Wolfe says is stronger than ever, Leeson made plaintiff Kate Lynn Blatt eral district court case, concluding that background when he he feels fortunate as Diaz believes, and the first transgender person to effec- gender dysphoria is not excluded by the applied to become a lawyer to wake up he’s thankful he’s in tively challenge a clause in the ADA that ADA. That position echoed one previ- the organization’s first every day and go to a position to harness excludes “gender identity disorder” and ously made by the Obama administration staff attorney in 2004. work with a team of the ACLU’s capacities. “transsexualism” from the protections in the Blatt case. “What I did have was brilliant freedom fight- “We [at the ACLU] of the law. Barry is understandably pleased by a lot of knowledge ers: “I’m one of the have a bit of a louder Barry, who co-authored an amicus these outcomes. As a fellow at George- of constitutional law lucky ones.” microphone that we brief filed by transgender rights groups town Law Center’s federal legislation because I had a great should use,” he says. in support of Blatt’s discrimination case clinic in 2008, he was among a team of grounding in that at against a former employer, explained the lawyers who worked on the ADA Amend- Boston College Law opinion’s two most important points in ments Act. His related 2013 article in School and also just an an article in Slate on May 24. “The first the Yale Human Rights and Development incredible commit- was that being transgender—identifying Law Journal led to a call from one of ment to civil rights and with the gender different than a person’s Blatt’s lawyers a year later, which in turn human rights.” designated birth sex—is not a medical led to “A Bare Desire to Harm: Trans- condition,” he wrote. “The second was gender People and the Equal Protection that gender dysphoria—the clinically Clause” in Boston College Law Review significant distress that some trans- and his work on the amicus brief.

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Eric F. Allendorf is a assistant US attorney in Vermont, recipient of the 2017 she is the first women in the state’s 02 Cornerstone Award history to be nominated and unani- presented by Lawyers Alliance for mously confirmed by the US Senate New York in recognition of pro bono as a federal prosecutor. legal services to nonprofits. A real estate partner in the New York, NY, Steven J. Boyajian was office of Paul Hastings LLP, he volun- named a “40 Under teers with New York Disaster Inter- 05 40” honoree for 2017 faith Services to provide temporary by Providence Business News for his housing for displaced New Yorkers. professional achievement and com- Zachary Heiden is the legal direc- munity involvement. He is counsel in tor of the ACLU in Maine. the Providence, RI, office of Robinson Robert F. Morrissey was named & Cole LLP and a member of the to the Boston College Board of firm’s business litigation group. Trustees. He is a partner at Boston- based Morrissey, Hawkins & Lynch Jennifer N. Bruzan and practices in the areas of estate and her husband, planning and administration, pro- 07 Matthew Taylor, of bate, fiduciary services, charitable Chicago, IL, announce the birth of ‘SO BLESSED TO HAVE HIM’: 1919-2017 foundations, taxation, real estate, their daughter, Victoria Celine Tay- PAUL MULLANEY ’48 Former and his wife raised their nine children. and business planning. lor, in February 2017. She joins her Worcester Mayor and Judge Paul His public service roles included city big brother, Nolan Jack Taylor, age 2. Mullaney ’48 died on November 1, counselor (1960 to 1967), mayor (1963 Justin P. O’Brien is a César Cuauhtémoc Garcia Hernán- 2017, All Souls’ Day, at the age of 97. to 1965), and district court judge Known affectionately as “Mr. (1978 until his retirement in 1991). partner in the Boston dez is the author “ICE’s Courthouse Worcester,” Judge Mullaney was In 2014, Judge Mullaney was 03 office of Hogan Arrests Undercut Democracy,” an born and raised in Worcester and recognized for his longtime service to Lovells and a member of the firm’s op-ed published in the New York graduated from the College of the the city he loved with the dedica- litigation practice group. Times in November. He is an associ- Holy Cross in 1942. He served in tion in his name of the plaza behind ate professor of law at the Univer- both WWII and the Korean War, Worcester City Hall. earning three Purple Hearts, a Fred Enman, SJ, ’78, assistant Jamie Azevedo is an sity of Denver Sturm College of Law Silver Star Medal for gallantry, and dean and chaplain of BC Law and associate at Bodyfelt and publisher of the award-winning a Bronze Star Medal for heroic a fellow Worcester native, recalls Mount LLP in Port- crImmigration.com blog. achievement. Between the two wars Judge Mullaney as “an outstanding 04 land, OR, and focuses her practice Joseph F. Kadlec is a partner in the he went to law school at Boston Col- decorated veteran, lawyer, elected on general civil litigation. Philadelphia, PA, office of Pepper lege, graduating in 1948. official, judge, and most importantly Judge Mullaney dedicated his life the family man that he truly was. We Christina Nolan was sworn in as Hamilton LLP and concentrates his to serving others and, in particular, were so blessed to have him as part the 38th US attorney for the District practice on corporate and securities the Worcester community where he of our community.” of Vermont in November. Former matters, with a focus on mergers

IN MEMORIAM

Arthur E. Gozzi ’39 John M. Casey ’54 James C. Vogt ’59 Gilbert B. Beck ’68 Francis Matthew Lynch ’81 Hon. Paul V. Mullaney ’48 John A. O’Callaghan ’55 Robert W. Jones ’61 James N. Doherty ’68 Margaret A. Skinner ’81 John E. Ryan ’50 Lionel J. Richard ’55 James F. Sullivan ’61 Robert T. Harrington ’69 Carlos J. Deupi ’88 Edward T. McHugh ’51 David J. Fenton ’56 Francis M. O’Boy ’64 James M. O’Connor ’69 Edouard LeFevre ’95 Hon. Vincent A. William H. Borghesani ’57 George M. O’Connor ’64 Mario A. Clavell ’72 Christopher B. Ragosta ’51 Joan Cleveland ’57 Leo R. Reynolds ’64 Charles E. Schaub ’72 Johnson ’00 Hon. Silvio T. Valente ’52 Robert J. Mroczek ’58 Richard I. Samuel ’65 Thomas F. Murphy ’76 Rachel M. Reinsvold ’05

Andre J. Barbeau ’54 Clifton E. Helman ’59 Louis R. ViTiello ’65 Michael K. Vlock ’78 Frank La Rocca, SJ, ’10 MAGAZINE WORCESTER MULLANEY:

46 BC LAW MAGAZINE Winter 2018 and acquisitions in the private facturing company. He is founder and tive weekly newspaper, Seven Days. equity and health care areas. publisher of the Legal Musings for the Michele L. McClafferty is an Gavi Wolfe is legislative direc- Uncommonly Curious blog. associate in the Birmingham, AL, tor at the American Civil Liber- office of Burr & Forman LLP and a ties Union of Massachusetts. As a Stephen L. Altieri is a member of the firm’s tort trial and lobbyist at the Massachusetts State partner in the Boston insurance practice group. House and the author of numer- 11 office of Morgan Lewis ous blogs, he addresses such issues and a member of the firm’s intel- Jennifer A. Henricks, as as individual rights, confidential lectual property practice group. His part of a legal team at health care insurance, and public practice is focused on patent coun- 15 Boston-based Gesmer records laws. seling, procurement, and licensing Updegrove LLP, secured a $32 mil- in the life sciences sector. lion verdict in a breach of contract Jed S. Rosenkrantz Dylan Hayre is the author of “How case against Steward Health Care is corporate coun- to Reform Criminal Justice, When Systems LLC, the largest private 09 sel at Forrester, a Prosecutors Hold the Power,” a hospital operator in the US, head- technology research and advisory commentary published on public quartered in Boston. firm headquartered in Cambridge, radio station WBUR’s Cognoscenti MA. He left his former position as a opinion page in July, and featured in Jennifer Miller and Mat- corporate associate at Sidley Austin the Marshall Project, the Crime Re- thew Rogers ’14 were in Chicago, IL, to travel around port, and BC Law Magazine. He is an 16 married at the Parish ANGELA K. DOAN ’17 the world for a year with Caitlin associate in the Charlestown, MA, of St. Ignatius of Loyola in June Johnson, who became his wife in office of Dhar Law LLP and prac- with BC Law Professor Frank Her- New Gig Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski hired Doan Nashville, TN, in September. tices criminal defense law, housing rmann, SJ, ’77 officiating and many as senior advisor for educa- Kristen M. Whittle, a partner in law, and family law. Previously, he BC Law classmates and friends in tion with a mandate to reform the Providence, RI, office of Barton founded Lawyer for Soldiers, a solo attendance. school-discipline policies and Gilman LLP, was named a “40 under practice that provided legal repre- enhance early childhood educa- 40” honoree for 2017 by Providence sentation to veterans and military Angela K. Doan was tion. Experience Before law Business News for her professional families. appointed senior school, taught fourth grade in her hometown of Salt Lake City accomplishment and community Daniel H. Ko is an associate in 17 advisor for education under a Title I school improve- involvement. the New York, NY, office of Rawle in the Salt Lake City (UT) Mayor’s ment grant and grew frustrated & Henderson LLP and focuses his Office. She previously worked for by the lack of empowerment Michael D. Brier is practice in the areas of casualty and the US Department of Civil Rights, accorded to teachers. Lesson an associate in the premises liability, commercial mo- Massachusetts Advocates for Chil- Learned “While teaching, I clearly saw gaps between laws 10 Boston office of Rubin tor vehicle litigation, and construc- dren, and the New England Inno- and policies and what was actu- and Rudman LLP and a member of tion defect cases. cence Project, and taught in the Salt ally happening in classrooms.” the firm’s litigation and labor and Lake City School District. Attention Getter Mayor employment practice groups. Paul D. Bekker is an as- Hale H. Melnick is an associate in Biskupski was impressed by Doan’s experience with city Irina Feldman is corporate counsel sociate in the Boston the Portland, ME, office of Verrill schools and education policy at Salesforce in Sydney, Australia. 12 office of Murtha Cul- Dana LLP. (at BC, Doan got dual law and Leah Rabinowitz Lenz and her lina LLP and a member of the firm’s Ross V. O’Bryan has joined Shuff- masters-in-education degrees). husband Peter welcomed their first Business and Finance Department ieldLowman, working in the Orlando She looks to Doan to help end child, Elliot Samuel, on February 4, and its real estate, land use, and af- office in corporate, securities, and “the school-to-prison-pipeline.” 2017. Elliot’s hobbies include crawl- fordable housing practice groups. tax law. He previously worked with ing, eating mashed bananas, and James M. Diaz, a staff attorney and a technology consulting firm, and making trouble. The family resides public advocate with the American brings experience in venture capital in Valhalla, NY. Civil Liberties Union of Vermont, investment, financial reporting, and Colin S. Levy is manager of contract was featured in an article entitled monitoring of financial markets. negotiations at Pearson Education in “ACLU of Vermont Experiences Alexander Porter is an associate Boston, having previously worked for Unprecedented Growth” by Alicia in the Portland, ME, office of Verrill a major global technology and manu- Freese in the Burlington, VT, alterna- Dana LLP.

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“One of the things I like about [my job] is that I’m constantly required to learn new things of one type or another: a new law, a new regulation, a new business practice.” KEVIN CAROME

Kevin Carome ’78 has no tricks up his sleeve. The senior new business practice.” In turn, ‘Law managing director and general counsel at financial services Carome, based in Atlanta, must giant Invesco Ltd. wants colleagues to understand that legal ensure that his staff of 500 people Is Not maneuvers will not solve a problem related to compliance or regulations. worldwide are equipped to handle “People find it helpful to know that there are judgment calls that need to what’s coming next. He says that Magic’ be made, that law is not magic,” he explains. when he thinks of his job respon- As a financial services “In a highly regulated business, you’re subject to a lot of specific laws sibilities, people management executive, Kevin Carome and regulations,” says Carome, who has served in his current position comes first. ’78 deals with regulations since 2006 and has been with the company since 2003. “And if you just One of Carome’s primary every day and does so with read them on the page, they seem to be clear. But when you start to apply responsibilities is educating judgment—not wizardry. them to specific business situations, you find that they’re not clear.” employees about the gray area BY MAURA KING SCULLY Carome’s responsibilities include legal, compliance, internal audit, when it comes to risk. “We have to government affairs, and security for Invesco, which manages more agree on the degree of risk we’re than $900 billion in assets and employs 7,000 people across the globe. going to take, try to be prudent “All of those functions I have responsibility for overseeing have a twin so we don’t take too much. It’s mission in a company like Invesco. First is service to internal clients in never black and white. Regulators the organization. The second mission is to operate as part of the overall sometimes move the goal post, so control environment.” it’s complicated, but if you get it To accomplish those goals, Carome must be both student and wrong, you face the consequences, teacher. “On any given day, you can have a whole wide variety of prob- you address the problem, and then lems to solve, some of which you can anticipate and some you can’t,” he you move on.” says. “One of the things I like about it is that I’m constantly required to Carome launched his career learn new things of one type or another: a new law, a new regulation, a with Ropes & Gray in Boston in its

48 BC LAW MAGAZINE Summer 2017 Photograph by CAITLIN CUNNINGHAM corporate department and then, TWO ALUMNI by “happenstance and circum- BECOME stance,” ended up moving into the financial services industry. US ATTORNEYS “I did a variety of things, mostly When Christina Nolan ’04 was deal work, but I didn’t do finan- unanimously confirmed as US From left, seated: Paul M. Kane ’70; standing: Martin F. Kane III ’92, both McGrath & cial services law, per se. Toward Attorney in Vermont by the Sen- ate last November, she became Kane. Seated: Norman I. Jacobs ’64; standing: Jon M. Jacobs ’92, both Esdaile, Barrett, Jacobs & Mone. Seated: George M. Ford ’65, Conn Kavanaugh Rosenthal Peisch & Ford; the end of my time at Ropes & the first woman to serve in that standing: Scott C. Ford ’95, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo Gray, I did a deal that involved a role, a particular honor for the money management company. native Vermonter. She also be- When I needed to make a move, came state’s 38th US attorney. Like Fathers, Like Sons a colleague of mine mentioned a Nolan, an Assistant US Family and friendship add up to camaraderie. Attorney in Vermont for seven job opening at Liberty Financial years, had the endorsements Companies, which was a small of Democratic Senator Patrick money management firm. They Leahy and Republican Governor 6 3 6 were looking for a lawyer with a Phil Scott. “Christina Nolan is All of these alums Studied under Dean Practice in Boston celebrated their mini Drinan, 3 under Dean range of skill sets, a deal lawyer a native Vermonter and a well- respected Assistant US Attorney network together Coquillette to help them go public, a general with a passion for the State of at the BC Club on 4 corporate lawyer, and someone Vermont and for the mission of October 24 Specialize in family law who knew US mutual fund law. a prosecutor—to seek justice and 2 I had all the skill sets except US improve our communities,” they Sons work in the same firms as their fathers mutual fund law. They took a flyer said in a joint statement. She was 3 3 nominated for the post in Sep- Fathers, all graduates The elder lawyers on me and I ended up over the tember by President Trump. in the 1960s and 1970; were recently called course of eight-and-a-half years The Governor’s office said that their 3 sons, all gradu- 1 “the deans” of the ultimately succeeding the man she is respected throughout the ates in the 1990s Son does not specialty bar who hired me to become the GC of state as a tough prosecutor and is that company. That company got particularly well informed about the state’s opioid crisis through SPEAKING OUT sold by Liberty Mutual Insurance her work on drug-related crime. Company in pieces. My job went Across the country, Robert C. away and I ended up with a job at Troyer ’90, who was serving as ICE COURTHOUSE Such arrests scare people away what has become Invesco.” the acting US attorney in Colo- ARRESTS from the courts, keeping them, for Carome’s job responsibilities rado, was appointed in Novem- example, from testifying at trials ber by Attorney General Jeff require frequent travel across UNDERMINE or seeking orders of protection. Sessions to serve as US Attorney DEMOCRACY By using this tactic, the nation’s the globe. When he lands in the for the district until the Senate lead immigration law enforcement UK—where he lived for a year as confirms a presidential nominee. In an op-ed in agency is undermining a pillar of a teenager and developed a love Troyer told the Mountain Mail the New York our democracy,” wrote Hernández, of football (soccer in the US)—he he will continue his office’s work Times on No- an associate professor of law at the to rebuild trust between com- often meets up with fellow foot- vember 27, César University of Denver Sturm Col- munities and law enforcement, Cuauhtémoc lege of Law and publisher of the ball fans and takes in a Manches- including by prosecuting hate García Hernán- blog crImmigration.com. ter United game. The team is his crimes and improving reporting dez ’07 expressed concerns about “With no change to federal favorite, and he tries to never of those crimes. Like Nolan, he the rising number of federal Im- policy in sight, it is up to cities and miss watching its games, though is addressing the opioid crisis in migration and Customs Enforce- states to push back,” he continued. his state. he admits, “Sometimes work gets ment (ICE) arrests of immigrants “Elected officials must take seri- at courthouses, where they are ously their legal obligation to keep in the way.” Christina dealing with matters unrelated to courthouses accessible. In addition, Even so, Carome’s enthusiasm Nolan ’04 their legal status. the cities and states that own and for the industry and his job have operate most courthouses and not waned over the years. “I don’t “This is a deeply worrisome trend ensure that no one uses their courts know when my last day of work- because arrests at courthouses in a way that halts judicial business— don’t just derail the lives of the protesters can’t block the doorway, ing will be,” he muses, “but I’m unsuspecting people who are bail bondsmen aren’t allowed to set sure I’ll learn something new that detained, they threaten the very up shop in the lobby—should do the day that I didn’t know before.” operation of our judicial system. same here for immigration agents.”

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REUNION WEEKEND 2017

The weekend of November 3-4 was a heady outpouring of campus tours, lectures, panel discussions, “bar reviews,” receptions and—biggest of all—class dinners at the Fairmont Copley Boston. Open to classes ending in 2 and 7, reunion began Friday afternoon with open classrooms; grads sat in on Pro- fessor Katharine Young’s contracts class and Professor Catharine Wells’ torts class. Some alumni took a private tour of BC’s McMullen Museum of Art to view Nature’s Mirror: Reality and Symbol in Belgian Landscape. In cooperation with BC Law’s Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy, the reunion included a panel discussion with Vera Sung ’90 and Chanterelle Sung ’04, whose family bank in Chinatown was targeted as “small enough to jail” by Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. At the Alumni Assembly, the Sungs gave the keynote on their family’s saga (see page 20). On Saturday, WBUR host Robin Young moderated a discussion among Congressman Michael Capuano ’77 and Professors George Brown and Renee Jones on the 2016 election. Afterwards, Professor Mary Bilder spoke at the Dean’s Council Recep- tion, and the class dinners continued well into the night.

50 BC LAW MAGAZINE Winter 2018 Photographs by CAITLIN CUNNINGHAM To see more Reunion 2017 photos, go to go to lawmagazine.bc.edu or bcalumni.smugmug.com/BC-Law-Reunion-2017. Winter 2018 BC LAW MAGAZINE 51 ESQUIRE Advancing Excellence

BC Law’s endowed chair holders, vestment, and the distinction that their named Common and the donors who established pro- chair represents, to produce groundbreaking fessorships at BC Law, intertwine scholarship. Donors, in turn, take pride in Threads across our community and across generations their investment in intellectual capital that Endowed professorships speak to to create the rich tapestry of our Law School. propels both faculty and students in their pur- the special relationships that make up An endowed chair is the highest recognition suit of excellence. Professorships honor our the fabric of the BC Law community. that the University can bestow on a faculty unwavering mission to address societal issues member. Chair holders are fueled by the in- and contribute to the common good.

BC LAW PROFESSORSHIPS

Robert F. Drinan, SJ, William J. Kenealy, SJ, Darald and Juliet Liberty Mutual David and Pamela Jerome Lyle Rappaport Professorship Professorship Libby Professorship Insurance Donohue Assistant Visiting Professorship Professorship Professorship in Law and Public Policy

DONORS LEAD DONOR DONOR DONOR DONOR DONORS Members Class of ’58 John Boc ’74 Darald Libby ’55† Liberty Mutual (photo: David Donohue ’71 Jerome Lyle and in honor of Fr. Drinan CHAIRHOLDER CHAIRHOLDER Chris Mansfield ’75) CHAIRHOLDER Phyllis Rappaport CHAIRHOLDER James R. Repetti ’80 Cathleen Kaveny CHAIRHOLDER Natalya Shnitser CHAIRHOLDER George Brown Patricia McCoy Geraldine Hines

CLASS OF ’58: Fr. Drinan BOC: “The faculty are the LIBBY: As children of the MANSFIELD: “Ted DONOHUE: “My legal THE RAPPAPORTS: “We propelled BC Law into true jewels in our crown. Great Depression, the Kelly, CEO of Liberty education has allowed are delighted that the the national spotlight, Professorships provide Libbys understood the Mutual and BC Trustee, me to live a happy and chair permits BC Law to recruiting top students an incentive for our most value of hard work. Da- and I recognized the rewarding life. I saw this bring diverse perspec- and faculty and launching impressive faculty to stay rald ran the David Clark importance of having an endowment as a wonder- tives on critical policy several law reviews at BC Law throughout company, which outfitted insurance expert at BC ful opportunity to thank issues from individuals in during his time as dean. their career. I am glad that astronauts, including John Law who could offer a BC Law, on a long term government, the judiciary, In 1970, he became this chair has furthered Glenn. When asked why balanced voice in public basis, for the value of a and business who would the first Catholic priest the career of Professor they gave back, Juliet policy. The professor- Jesuit education and the not normally commit to a elected to Congress. Repetti, whose contribu- said, “God has been very ship, and the hard work competency to pursue an full-time academic career. tions to our students good to us, and we feel of Professor McCoy, entrepreneurial career.” The initial appointees and tax law scholarship that we have to share, to have positioned BC Law have set a high standard provide lasting benefits to pass it on.” as a leader of scholarly and have clearly enriched so many.” discourse on insurance.” the BC community.”

BROWN: Author of more REPETTI: The co-author KAVENY: “The Libby Pro- McCOY: “This chair has SHNITSER: “The offer HINES: “After 46 years as than 40 law review ar- of four books about tax fessorship has given me elevated BC Law to new of this endowed chair an advocate and jurist, ticles, Brown is well known law, Repetti is a consul- the time I need to delve prominence as a leading signaled BC Law’s I am delighted to share for his writings on the ju- tant to the US Senate, deeply in my research. US law school in this field. extraordinary support with students at BC Law— risdiction of federal courts IRS, and Justice Depart- It has given me the In just three short years, it for junior faculty. I was some of whom will go and on public corruption, ment. “This professor- resources to attend the has become internation- honored to accept the on to shape policy both among other topics. “I ship has unquestionably national and international ally known for cultivat- position after serving as locally and nationally— have been inspired by transformed my career. I’m conferences and colloquia ing new scholars and an Associate Research the lessons I have learned Father Drinan’s memory grateful for the investment that spark new ideas. cutting-edge research in Scholar in Law and the about the relationship and the high standards he made by the Class of ‘74 These ideas, in turn, feed insurance law.” Executive Director of between the law and just set that propelled BC Law and particularly moved by into both my research and the Yale Law School outcomes.” forward.” the community spirit that my teaching.” Center for the Study of underlies this chair.” Corporate Law.”

52 BC LAW MAGAZINE Winter 2018 † DECEASED NEW PROFESSORSHIP “When we met, Roger and I The Short Family Sesquicentennial talked about why BC was the right Assistant Professorship fit for both of us.” MADELINE BECKER ’18, THE ROGER M. BOUGIE MARIANNE D. SHORT: BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT “The faculty at BC Law helped to propel my career forward and set me up attack. When discharged, he was offered for success. When my jobs with the CIA and US Department of the husband Ray Skowyra and Treasury. He turned them down because I thought about the best he wanted a break before starting the next way to give back, we decided to invest in the incredible chapter in his career. faculty members whose research and teaching change the lives of so many students each year.” A search will be The Bougies decided to settle down closer conducted to fill the chair. to home, in New England, and spent the summer working at the Cliff Hotel in Scituate, she as a waitress, he as a bartender. Bougie met sev- UNIVERSITY PROFESSORSHIPS eral BC Law alumni there, and they hit it off. He was impressed by their successful careers. Founders J. Donald Monan, SJ, It was those conversations that eventually led Professorship University Professorship One Good Deed the Bougies to Fr. Drinan’s office that day. CHAIRHOLDER CHAIRHOLDER Deserves Another Fr. Drinan decided to take a chance on Professor Professor Bougie, agreeing to admit him if he did well Mary Sarah Daniel Roger Bougie ’62 got his start in law Bilder Coquillette because others helped. Now it’s his turn. on his entrance exam, submitted letters of recommendation, and excelled in his classes. Roger Bougie ’62 can trace his career suc- He accomplished all three. BILDER: “I’ve spent my COQUILLETTE: “As a legal cess back to one day in the summer of 1959. Bougie had the brains to complete his entire career at BC Law historian, I appreciate that He and his wife, Barbara, walked into the coursework, but it was Barbara, Fr. Dri- and am honored by my colleagues and I stand office of Boston College Law School Dean nan, and the people who took a chance on a the vote of confidence on the shoulders of giants. Robert Drinan, SJ. Bougie, a former Air pilot-turned-lawyer that made his success of the University in my This professorship named work and my contribu- for Fr. Monan expresses Force pilot and intelligence officer, wanted possible. The BC Law community’s belief in tions to the field.” In respect and gratitude to to make a career switch and hoped that Fr. him is something that Bougie never forgot as 2016, legal historian great leaders of our past Drinan would admit him to BC Law. Bougie he progressed through his career. Bilder received the pres- while also empowering my also had an impressive resume, but he hadn’t He spent his first year and a half as a tigious Bancroft Prize research and writing. I am taken the required entrance exam or submit- lawyer in Waltham specializing in real estate for her book Madison’s grateful for the ongoing Hand: Revising the Con- reminder of Fr. Monan’s ted an application. and also spent time working with the Federal stitutional Convention. inspiring legacy.” Explaining that Bougie didn’t have the Aviation Administration. Wanting to apply necessary qualifications, Fr. Drinan was his experience as a pilot to his legal career, he about to turn him away when Barbara spoke then took a job in United Aircraft Corpora- BRINGING NEW VOICES TO CAMPUS up. “Roger came from nothing and worked tion’s international subsidiary. During his his way through college,” she said. “You have thirty-two years in the international legal Richard G. Huber Visiting Professorship to let him in.” Not afraid to fight for a cause department, Bougie assisted with contracts,

A COMMUNITY OF DONORS: Established in 1985, this she believed in, she made her case. sales, and marketing, tasks which took him fund includes gifts made over the years by well over She said Bougie, a first-generation college to Brazil, Argentina, China, and throughout 100 donors to honor our former dean. The professorship student, had moved among several small Europe and the Middle East, places that he was originally held by the Hon. Herbert P. Wilkins, former towns in New Hampshire as a child, fol- had only dreamed of as a child. Chief Justice of the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court. lowing his dad as he took on new jobs as a Inspired to support the community lumberjack. They didn’t have much money, that supported and believed in him, Bougie THE NUMBERS and his parents each had an eighth grade endowed the Roger M. Bougie Boston College education, but Bougie’s mother had always Law School Scholarship, and in May met his emphasized the value of education. He did current scholarship student.

10 20 236 100 well in high school and was admitted to the “When we met, Roger and I talked about

Endowed Courses Books and Professor- University of New Hampshire, where he par- why BC was the right fit for both of us,” said professor- taught this articles ships BC ticipated in ROTC. He joined the Air Force Madeline Becker ’18, his scholarship recipi- ships at academic by current as a whole straight out of college, quickly rising through ent. “It was great to speak to someone who BC Law year by BC Law hopes to the ranks and learning to fly a T-33. knows so much about the school’s history BC Law chair- establish chair- holders in coming Bougie served in the US and Taiwan, and who has shared the rewards of his suc- holders years where the Chinese were threatening to cess with others.”

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2018 LAW DAY / MAY 2 2018 REUNION & ALUMNI WEEKEND / RECEPTION, DINNER & AWARDS CEREMONY NOVEMBER 2 & 3 RITZ-CARLTON BOSTON FOR ALUMNI WHO GRADUATED IN CLASSES 5:30 PM: RECEPTION WITH YEARS ENDING IN 3 OR 8. 7:00 PM: AWARDS CEREMONY Join us for this weekend-long celebration of social, Honor outstanding individuals for their courage and academic, and networking events on campus and at commitment to the ideals of BC Law School. Proceeds the Ritz-Carlton Boston. go to the Law School Fund for student scholarships. To join your Reunion Class Committee or learn more, To view awards and make a nomination, visit bc.edu/lawday. visit bc.edu/lawreunion.

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Alumni and Friends Corporations and Alumni and Friends Robert D. Keefe ’72 Corporations and Paul T. and Foundations John D. Cooney P’16 Brian J. Knez ’84 Foundations Kimberly L. Dacier Anonymous Robert K. Decelles ’72 and James M. ’73 and Lisa K. Micali John D. & Barbara C. Cooney Marianne D. Short ’76 and Anonymous Mary L. Dupont David C. Weinstein ’75 Family Foundation Raymond L. Skowyra Jr. Thomas P. Jalkut ’76 Scana Corporation Jody Pullen Williams ’83 William M. Kargman ’67 P’11

Alumni and Friends Charles J. ’59 and Jo Ellen ’79 and Corporations and SLIZEWSKI Anonymous Barbara Vazza Gulino Enrique Ojeda Foundations SOCIETY Kathryn Jean Barton ’87 Edward T. Hanley ’86 Michael J. Richman ’85 Ayco Charitable Foundation $25,000+ Roger M. ’62 and Barbara Bougie Ruth-Arlene W. ’74 and Jeffrey S. ’77 and Goldman Sachs Gives James A. ’68 and Lois Champy Theodore H. Howe Evelyn L. Sabin Haldeman Family Foundation F. Bruce Cohen ’97 Joan Lukey ’74 and Richard A. and K. P. M. G. Foundation David A. T. Donohue ’71 Philip D. Stevenson Joanne M. Spillane Jr. P’12 Michael K. ’84 and Elizabeth Michael E. ’67 and Paul E. Sullivan ’69 Clancy Fee P’15 Margaret Supple Mone P’96

Alumni and Friends Deb Goldberg ’83 and Sharon A. Bazarian Joseph M. ’87 and Laura L. Vanek SULLIVAN Anonymous ’11 Michael Winter Matthew L. McGinnis ’91 John F. ’94 and SOCIETY Susan Linehan Beaumont ’86 and William F. Griffin ’14 John J. McHale ’75 Elaine Shimkin ’94 Ventola $10,000+ Thomas J. Beaumont John D. ’74 and Kathleen M. McKenna ’78 Deedra Smith Walkey ’91 John F. Boc ’74 and Barbara F. Hanify P’17 Harry ’81 and Terri Allen P’07 Christopher P. ’86 and Lynn Rittmaster O’Mealia Corporations and Jonathan Bryan Brooks ’99 and Christine Melville Harvey Rita-Anne O’Neill ’04 Foundations Emilie Hyams John E. ’91 and Mary-Beth Henry Martin J. ’90 and Blue Cross of Massachusetts Allan R. Campbell ’71 Margaret J. Hurley ’91 Kathleen O. ’90 Pasqualini Cadaro Realty LLC Barbara A. Campbell P’05 Ellen S. ’75 and Jeffrey G. Huvelle Jeanne M. Picerne ’92 Donohue and Associates LLC Richard P. Campbell ’74 P’05 Anne P. Jones ’61 R. Robert Popeo ’61 P’94’98 Ernst & Young LLP James L. Dahlberg ’81 and Stephen Wells Kidder ’78 and Philip Privitera ’95 ExxonMobil Corporation Deirdre E. Donahue ’81 Judith Ann Malone ’78 Michael J. ’77 and Fred Salvucci Corporation Eugene and Brenda Delsener P’17 George M. Kunath ’73 and Christine Marie Puzo Goldberg Family Foundation Leonard F. ’77 and Kathleen E. Shannon ’75 Deirdre O’Connor Quinn ’90 Goulston & Storrs Geraldine Healy DeLuca Louis P. A. Lehot ’00 Danielle Salvucci ’96 and Brian Black Holland & Knight LLP Christopher David ’88 and James H. Lerner ’80 and Fred Salvucci P’96’03 Peach Pit Foundation Molly Dyke Dillon Patricia Kennedy Rocha ’82 P’14 Neal and Debbie Shalom P’17 Privitera Family Charitable Clover M. Drinkwater ’81 David Leslie ’74 P’07 John A. ’81 and Foundation Jeffrey M. Drubner ’90 James E. McDermott ’80 and Patrice Tarantino P’12 WilmerHale LLP

56 BC LAW MAGAZINE Winter 2018 Alumni and Friends Michael Alan ’78 and Raymond F. ’61 and Lawrence O. ’72 and HOUGHTELING Hugh J. Ault and Nancy Hacker P’13 Pamelee Murphy Anne Spaulding SOCIETY Martina David-Ault Linda J. Hoard ’81 George W. ’81 and Adelbert L. Spitzer ’81 and $5,000+ Robert M. ’71 and Janet Lynn Hoffman ’82 Holly L. Mykulak P’17 Diane Young-Spitzer ’81 Christina Bloom Michael D. Jones ’76 and Mark V. Nuccio ’83 Robert J. ’92 and Andrew Peter ’96 and Vicki L. Hawkins- R. Daniel O’Connor ’96 Patricia M. Weber Jennifer M. ’96 Borggaard Jones ’76 P’16 F. Thomas O’Halloran ’80 Ron and Paul A. Bronzo Jane Lisman Katz ’72 Denise Marie Parent ’89 and Maria Weissman P’19 Kevin Martin Brown ’87 and Andrew J. ’91 and James E. Paquette Jr. Christopher Weld ’81 Cathleen M. Ryan Gina Maria Kelly Debra Frances Pell ’82 Thomas A. Zaccaro ’84 and Philip H. R. Cahill ’48 Stephen Allan Kremer ’95 Kevin P. ’75 and Joanne Caruso ’85 P’16 Kevin Michael Carome ’82 George B. Leahey ’66 Ann M. Phillips Ralph and Nancy Casazzone P’09 Ray Madoff and Kenneth S. ’75 and Corporations and Douglas Warren Clapp ’92 David A. Nicholas Jane M. Prince Foundations Katherine Litman Cohen ’76 Christopher C. ’75 and Francis D. Privitera Anonymous Karen G. Del Ponte ’83 Laura Lee Mansfield ’56 P’95’95 Charitable Flex Fund Suzanne Vitagliano Walter K. McDonough ’87 Robert L. Raskopf ’76 CVR Associates Inc. Del Vecchio ’67 Daniel J. Meehan ’72 David Mitchell The Eleanor F. Langan Anthony Michael Devito ’78 Robert C. Mendelson ’80 Rievman ’87 Foundation of 1997 Edmund ’78 and Dennis M. Meyers ’73 Alan I. Saltman ’73 Jane & Robert Katz Foundation Colleen Whitty DiSanto Mark C. ’85 and Herbert J. ’64 and Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, James P. Dowden ’00 Nancy E. J. Michalowski Diane Schneider Glovsky & Popeo PC Joseph W. ’72 and M.J. Moltenbrey ’84 Jon D. ’68 and Morgan Stanley Global Impact Jane D. Gannon George J. ’79 and Nancy Schneider Funding Trust Inc. Stephen V. Gimigliano ’83 Catherine Oliver ’79 Murphy Ramona Gail See ’85 Rhode Island Foundation Adam W. Gurwitz ’92 P’09’14 Lawrence R. Sidman ’73 Walt Disney Company Foundation

Alumni and Friends Susan Hanmer Farina ’94 Kevin J. ’77 and Jon Randall Roellke ’87 DOOLEY Juan Manuel Acosta ’86 Robert S. ’76 and Sunny P. Lynch Mathew Stuart Rosengart ’87 SOCIETY Kelly D. Babson ’06 Mary Ellen Farrington John F. Malitzis ’92 Vincent D. Rougeau and $2,500+ Adam M. Baker ’08 Scott A. ’85 and Patricia A. Markus ’92 Robin L. Kornegay-Rougeau $2,000+ FOR GRADUATES David L. Batty ’91 Joanne L. Faust P’19 Richard J. ’84 and Colm P. Ryan ’08 and 5-9 YEARS OUT $1,500+ FOR GRADUATES Mark Thomas Benedict ’93 Edward F. ’82 and Rosemary ’84 McCready Leslie M. Schmidt ’08 1-4 YEARS OUT Brian A. Berube ’88 Jane Hauber Fay P’18 Hugh G. McCrory ’86 and Mary K. Ryan ’77 Kyle ’94 and Richard A. Feinstein ’77 Anne O’Connor ’89 Kimberly L. Sachse ’89 Bridget M. ’94 Bettigole David P. Fialkow ’85 William A. McGee ’14 Carla A. Salvucci ’03 Michael John ’82 and Faye A. Florence ’84 Terence A. McGinnis ’75 Brenda Ruel Sharton ’90 Ann M. Bevilacqua David Thomas ’70 and David A. McKay ’85 and Nerre Shuriah ’94 Eric and Patricia Marshall Gay Marjory D. Robertson ’82 Eric L. Stern ’81 Joyce Bloom P’19 Allan M. Green ’91 Robert F. McLaughlin ’71 William C. ’68 and Stephen J. Brake ’83 and Stephen L. Green ’62 Judy McMorrow and Michele Doyle Sullivan Pamela Downing ’83 Mark E. ’83 and Richard M. Reilly William John ’91 and John F. ’74 and Helene W. ’83 Haddad Laura Sheppe Miller ’91 Stephanie Dadaian ’91 Carole Bronzo P’10 Dean M. Hashimoto and Peter John ’95 and Thompson Thomas R. Burton III ’96 and Victoria Turbini Jennifer L. ’96 Millones Neal C. Tully ’73 Leslie Everingham Burton Sean ’97 and Joseph Justin Mueller ’00 Carol Vasconcellos ’09 P’17 Krista D’Aloia Busnach ’91 Nancy Patricia ’98 Hill John D. ’95 and Marcia McCabe Wilbur ’71 P’02 Kevin B. ’67 and Ingrid and Margaret A. Norberg Steven H. Wright ’81 Nancy Mahoney Callanan P’95 Michael Hillinger Donal J. ’83 and Jean Roney Orr Esther Chang ’07 Edward T. ’81 and Anne E. Palmer ’06 Corporations and John Gilmore Childers ’81 Tanya Oldenhoff Hinchey P’15 Anthony J. and Foundations David Anthony Cifrino ’89 Christopher M. Iaquinto ’12 Cheryl A. Paolino Jr. Bank of America Gregory Francis Corbett ’99 and Adolfo E. Jimenez ’90 C. Stephen ’75 and Bank of America Charitable Elizabeth Grace Moulds ’99 Barbara Kinder P’14 Kathleen King ’75 Parker Gift Fund Xiomara Corral ’87 Michael Frederick Sunjlee D. Pegram ’83 Coca Cola Enterprises Inc. Michael F. Coyne ’83 Klein ’86 John R. and Goldman, Sachs & Co. Kevin J. Curtin ’88 and Lisabeth Ryan Kundert ’86 Kathleen M. Potapchuk P’17 Hemenway & Barnes LLP Susan M. Jeghelian ’86 Dennis R. ’77 and John B. ’71 and Locke Lord LLP Elizabeth A. Deakin ’75 Mary H. La Fiura Maryann Hanson Pound McGrath & Kane Peter A. Del Vecchio ’81 James D. Laur ’86 Mark Thomas ’88 and Merck & Company Inc. Jaffe D. Dickerson ’75 Edward R. ’71 and Diane Bunt ’90 Power MetLife Foundation Joseph W. Downs III ’74 Patricia M. Leahy Anne Rickard ’89 and Pfizer Inc. Wilbur P. Edwards Jr. ’84 and Steven Lenkowsky ’76 Todd Jackowitz PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Evelynne L. Swagerty ’84 Edward A. ’67 and Stephen D. Riden ’99 and Proskauer Rose LLP David W. Ellis ’81 Anna M. Lenz Siri E. Nilsson ’11 Renaissance Charitable Austin R. ’09 and Grant Allan Levy ’88 Sander A. ’76 and Foundation Inc. Arianna ’09 Evers John P. Lydon ’16 Lauren Stiller ’79 Rikleen United Way of Rhode Island

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ALUMNI 1958 Robert W. Clifford• Thomas J. Carey• Edward A. Lenz••• Peter C. Edison Martin L. Aronson• John J. Connors• Rae B. Condon• Frederick S. Lenz• Leo F. Evans• 1948 William W. Corcoran Stephen L. Green•• Thomas J. Dorchak• Robert E. McCarthy• William F. Farley• Walter W. Curcio Jay S. Hamelburg Sidney P. Feldman William A. Gary S. Fentin Philip H. R. Cahill †••• • • • • Richard D. Fountain• Kent S. Hathaway• Francis J. Frasier• McCormack• Paul C. Fournier• Raymond J. Kenney Jr.•• John R. Kenney• Frank E. Green• David A. Mills Dana H. Gaebe• 1949 Douglas J. MacMaster Jr. Robert J. Martin• Francis W. Holman• Michael E. Mone• Robert J. Glennon Jr.• James F. Queenan Jr. Donald J. Orkin Paul R. Lawless David L. Murphy John E. Glovsky Robert D. O’Leary• •• • • • Lawrence A. Ruttman•• David B. Perini• Robert G. Lian John E. Peltonen John R. Hicinbothem• Frances Clohessy Spillane• Donald L. Sharpe• William J. McDonald• Gerald F. Petruccelli• Gerald J. Hoenig• 1950 Daniel W. Shea• John F. McDonough• Gerald R. Prunier Stephen L. Johnson• Ernest T. Smith Robert E. McGinness Charles P. Reidy Daniel E. Kleinman Ralph S. Inouye• 1959 • • • John F. Sullivan• Peter J. Norton• Peter N. Rogers Alan M. Lestz• Richard L. Abedon• Walter F. Weldon• Richard W. Norton• Arnold R. Rosenfeld• Alan G. MacDonald• 1951 John Joseph Bilafer• Kenneth H. Zimble Nick Soloway Lawrence E. Miller• George G. Burke Irving Starr William J. O’Neil Paul B. Kennedy •• 1968 • Richard L. Curley R. Joseph Parker 1963 • Cornelius S. Donoghue Robert G. Agnoli Lawrence W. • 1966 • 1952 James T. Grady Norman Baker• Peter A. Ambrosini• Schonbrun• Charles J. Gulino Forrest W. Barnes USNR (Ret.) Ernest L. Anderson James A. Champy Richard M. Shaw John P. Curley Jr.† ••• ••• • Robert S. Lappin Peter R. Blum Robert F. Arena Cary J. Coen Mitchell J. Sikora William J. Dooley • • • • • Owen B. Lynch Donald Brown Paul F. Beatty John P. Connor Jr. Paul E. Sullivan James C. Farrington • • • • •• • Melvin Norris Michael J. Dorney Michael D. Brockelman Philip R. Currier Leo W. Tracy Norman L. Grant • • • • • David B. Slater Richard M. Gaberman John F. Burke John A. Dooley Margaret S. Travers John B. Hogan•• •• • • • Richard W. Hanusz• Crystal C. Campbell• Evelyn L. Greenwald• Peter J. Tyrrell• Herbert H. Hodos Eugene T. Clifford Cornelius J. Guiney Barry L. Weisman 1960 • • 1953 Daniel J. Johnedis• Matthew T. Connolly David F. Hannon Ruby Roy Wharton• Dominic F. Cresto Joseph Maney Robert J. Desiderio E.J. Holland Jr. James P. Whitters Robert C. Campion • • • • • • Marcel Charles Durot Joseph H. Pellegrino George M. Doherty Walter F. Kelly John V. Woodard Julian J. D’Agostine • • • • • •• David B. Finnegan Donald P. Quinn Robert C. Engstrom Joseph M. Korff Richard R. Zaragoza Thomas M. Quinn Jr. • • • • • Robert A. Gorfinkle Alvan W. Ramler Brian J. Farrell Elizabeth O. LaStaiti David W. Walsh• • • • John F. Keenan• Lewis Rosenberg• Gerald E. Farrell• John S. Leonard 1970 Joseph Lian Jr.• C. Ronald Rubley• Michael L. Goldberg David J. Levenson• 1954 Robert C. McGuire• John J. Sheehy Hugo A. Hilgendorff• James F. McAleer Victor A. Aronow• Elwynn J. Miller Charles C. Tretter John A. Janas Lawrence E. Louis B. Blumenfeld Robert T. Abrams •• • • • • Philip W. Riley John R. Walkey John W. Kaufmann McCormick Andrew J. Chwalibog Robert H. Breslin • • • • • • Bruce N. Sachar George B. Leahey John R. McFeely Robert C. Ciricillo Theodore S. Samet •• • •• Francis J. Shea Thomas M. Marquet Peter J. Morrissette Robert S. Cohen John P. White• • 1964 • • Allan B. Solomon• Lawrence A. Maxham• Robert M. O’Brien• Mary M. Connolly• J. Owen Todd• Charles B. Abbott• Robert G. Parks• Michael E. Povich• Thomas A. Coughlin• 1956 Michael F. Bergan• Frederick Pritzker• Grier Raggio• Christopher E. Doyle•• Kevin T. Byrne Joseph F. Ryan John J. Reid John M. Farrington Wilfred J. Baranick 1961 • • • • Philip J. Callan James N. Schmit Paul J. Richmond Peter W. Fink Lawrence J. Fagan • • • Daniel Briansky Robert J. Donahue Andrew F. Shea Jon D. Schneider Eugene P. Flynn Robert F. Grandfield • •• • Richard P. Delaney William L. Haas Thomas F. Sullivan John R. Shaughnessy David Thomas Gay Francis D. Privitera•• • • • •• Thomas E. Dupont• Edward M. Hadro Robert L. Shea• Charles B. Gibbons• Charles D. Ferris Norman I. Jacobs Jeffrey P. Somers Frederic N. Halstrom • 1967 •• • 1957 John M. Furlong Thomas P. Kennedy• William C. Sullivan••• Gerald A. Hamelburg• Anne P. Jones Charles A. Lane Charles A. Abdella Robert F. Teaff Edward P. Henneberry Conrad J. Bletzer Sr. ••• • • • • • James A. King T. Kenwood Mullare Leland J. Adams Peter W. Thoms Donald C. Hillman Philip H. Cahalin • • • • • • Hugo Liepmann Francis M. O’Boy† Stephen P. Beale Robert D. Tobin Fred Hopengarten John M. Callan • • • • Elliott J. Mahler Donald Jude O’Meara Charles T. Callahan Joseph J. Triarsi Paul M. Kane Walter J. E. Carroll • • • Raymond F. Murphy Arnold W. Proskin Kevin B. Callanan Peter J. Kilmartin Thomas J. Crowley ••• • •• • • R. Robert Popeo Joseph J. Reardon Peter S. Casey Joseph M. Kozak Anna M. DiGenio •• • • 1969 • T. David Raftery Herbert J. Schneider Leonard F. Conway Willard Krasnow John F. Healy ••• • • Robert J. Robertory Stephen W. Silverman Anthony J. De Marco Richard A. Aborn Peter G. Marino Richard P. Kelleher • • • • • Edward A. Roster James R. Skahan Suzanne Vitagliano Roger C. Adams Richard T. Moses John R. Malloy • • • • • Ernest B. Sheldon Albert N. Stieglitz Del Vecchio Carl E. Axelrod Alan K. Posner John J. McCarthy • •• • • • Anthony A. Tafuri Robert L. Surprenant Edward D. Feldstein Thomas V. Bennett Thomas F. Reilly George H. Parsons • • • • • Sarkis Teshoian Mark D. Trottier Stephen B. Goldenberg William H. Bluth Norman C. Sabbey Charles M. Rose • • • • Peter Van Jerome M. Tuck Joseph M. Hall Merrill A. Bookstein Michael D. Saunders James F. Stapleton • • • William M. Kargman Edward S. Brewer Richard J. Schulman Robert B. Welts •• • • Lawrence A. Katz Thomas H. Brown Kurt M. Swenson Edward E. Williams• 1962 1965 • • • James H. Klein• Thomas E. Connolly• Michael Carlin Towers• Bruce R. Balter• Howard Jay Alperin• Daniel B. Kulak• James M. Cronin• Mark W. Vaughn• Roger M. Bougie••• Edward M. Bloom• James J. Lawlor James O. Druker• Stephen W. Webster•

58 BC LAW MAGAZINE Winter 2018 • DEAN’S COUNCIL MEMBER • SHAW SOCIETY MEMBER • DRINAN SOCIETY • DRINAN SOCIETY SUSTAINING MEMBER † DECEASED 1971 Robert J. Lepri• Neal C. Tully•• Howard W. Burns• William D. Kirchick• Dennis R. La Fiura•• Thomas J. Barrett Edward J. Markey• Richard M. Whiting• Robert B. Carpenter• James J. Klopper• James F. Lafargue Robert M. Bloom•• James T. McKinlay III• Daniel C. Crane• Steven Lenkowsky•• Dennis A. Lalli•• Raymond J. Brassard Daniel J. Meehan Elizabeth A. Deakin Marion K. Littman Alexandra Leake • •• 1974 •• • • George H. Butler Carol Williams Melaugh• Jaffe D. Dickerson•• Deborah M. Lodge• Alice Sessions Lonoff• Allan R. Campbell• James T. Miller Jan Armon Howard L. Drescher• Robert P. Lombardi• Kevin J. Lynch• Christopher F. Connolly• Stephen V. Miller• Howard B. Barnaby Leon P. Drysdale Peter S. Maher Thomas E. Lynch III• Ellen R. Delany• Frank R. Newett• Morrell I. Berkowitz• Steven B. Farbman• Daniel P. Matthews• John J. MacDonald• John C. Doherty Anthony Roberti• Thomas J. Berry• Kevin P. Glasheen• Joyce E. McCourt Patrick J. McAuley• David A. T. Donohue•• Alfred L. Singer• John F. Boc•• Anne M. Goggin Charles M. McCuen Christopher G. Mehne•• Seth H. Emmer• Mark L. Snyder• Mark B. Brenner• Bruce A. Haverberg• Michael J. McEneaney Carmen Messano• Walter J. Fisher• Lawrence O. John F. Bronzo••• Ellen S. Huvelle••• Judith Mizner• Jack J. Mikels• James W. Flood• Spaulding••• Stephen J. Buchbinder Robert P. Joy• Thomas Hugh Mug• Frank Mondano Berel R. Gamerman• James C. Sturdevant• Richard P. Campbell•• Anne Maxwell Livingston• Gilbert J. Nadeau Jr.• Brian G. Osganian• John J. Gillies• Jeffrey M. Weiner Susan E. Condon• Paul F. Lorincz• Robert W. Nolting• George A. Perry• Barry A. Guryan Florence A. Wood• Lynda Murphy Connolly• Christopher C. Mansfield•• Alice C. Oliff• Michael J. Puzo••• Charles J. Hely Loring A. Cook• Ronald C. Markoff• Janet S. Painter Diane L. Renfroe• Peter A. Hoffman J. Elizabeth Cremens • 1973 • Pamela B. Marsh• Deborah A. Posin• Anne Rogers•• John M. Hurley Robert W. Cullen Kathleen F. McCarthy• Edward A. Rainen Gary A. Rosenberg• William H. Ise• Ivar R. Azeris Kenneth J. Davis• Larry J. McElwain Robert L. Raskopf•• Paula E. Rosin• John B. Johnson• Donald L. Becker• Barbara A. Dortch-Okara• Terence A. McGinnis•• Sander A. Rikleen•• Mary K. Ryan•• Stuart A. Kaufman• Dennis J. Berry• Joseph W. Downs III•• John J. McHale•• Mark W. Robbins Jeffrey S. Sabin••• Raymond J. Kelly• P. Robert Brown• Diane Durgin•• John T. Montgomery•• Janet Roberts• Kitt Sawitsky•• David L. Kent Bruce H. Cohen• Joseph Egan Daniel F. Murphy Jr.• Gerald J. Robinson• Gary M. Sidell• Frederick P. Leaf William A. Conti• Ann L. Ekstrum• Kathryn Cochrane Murphy• Regina S. Rockefeller Leonard E. Sienko Jr.• Edward R. Leahy••• Walter A. Costello• James E. Flynn• Marshall F. Newman• Stephen B. Rockoff Susan St. Thomas• Aaron A. Lipsky• Patrick J. Daly• Daniel A. Ford• C. Stephen Parker Jr.•• Douglas R. Ross Joan C. Stoddard Gerald F. Lucey• Edith N. Dinneen•• Erika Schwenn Fox• Kathleen King Parker•• Ronna Greff Schneider• Michael L. Tichnor• Robert A. Lusardi James C. Donnelly Jr.• Paul A. Francis• George E. Pember• Marianne D. Short••• David J. Tracy• Thomas F. Maffei• William F. Dowling• Katherine M. Galvin• Marcia Allara Peraza• Patrick A. Tanigawa• Raymundo Velarde• Robert F. McLaughlin• Sandra S. Elligers• Robert M. Graham Kevin P. Phillips•• Willie C. Thompson• Joseph R. Membrino David T. Flanagan Patricia C. Gunn Kenneth S. Prince Joseph W. Tierney • •• 1978 Robert A. O’Neil• Robert D. Fleischner• John D. Hanify•• Charles F. Rogers Dolph J. Vanderpol• Jon S. Oxman• Patrick A. Fox• Ruth-Arlene W. Howe••• Stephen R. Rubenstein• Mark D. Wincek• Kenneth D. Arbeeny• John B. Pound•• Richard M. Gelb Michael B. Isaacs• James L. Rudolph• Jerold Lorin Zaro• Jill Nexon Berman•• Robert C. Prensner• John W. Giorgio• Alan J. Kaplan• Kathleen E. Shannon•• Eliot Zuckerman Angela M. Bohmann• Robert W. Russell• John J. Goger Diane M. Kottmyer• Donna M. Sherry• Willie R. Brown Susan J. Sandler Donald A. Graham Gary H. Lefkowitz Eugene A. Skowronski Diane M. Cecero • • • 1977 • William T. Sherry• Terrance J. Hamilton• David Leslie•• William S. Stowe• Ralph Joseph Cinquegrana• John M. Solovan II• Henry R. Hopper• Benjamin M. Levy• David S. Strauss• Peter A. Allen Anthony Michael Devito•• Mark Stone• Leonard C. Jekanowski• Joan Lukey••• Thomas R. Ventre• Paul M. Aloi Edmund DiSanto•• Joseph R. Tafelski• Thomas J. Kelley Jr.• Lawrence H. Mandell David C. Weinstein•• Roger O. Babin Timothy William Donahue Marcia McCabe Wilbur•• Brian M. Kingston• Alan D. Mandl• Jeffrey M. White• Ronald A. Ball• Thomas Drechsler• Judith Koch Wyman• Andrew R. Kosloff• Regina Snow Mandl• Robert J. Zapf• Esther R. Barnhart• Frederick M. Enman Jr.• Thomas M. Zarr• George M. Kunath•• Daniel J. McInerney Jr. Edward C. Bassett• Mercedes S. Evans• Roger P. Law Kevin J. Moynihan Andrew N. Bernstein Barbara Ann Fay • • 1976 • • Stephen M. Limon Peter A. Mullin Maureen A. Brennan George P. Field 1972 • • William H. Lyons• Douglas M. Myers• Mark N. Berman Philip M. Cedar• Maureen L. Fox• Raymond G. Bolton• John V. Mahoney• Paula Pugh Newett• Kenneth S. Boger• Robert L. Collings• Steven Alan Gabovitch• John Boyajian• Edward J. McCormack• Richard L. Olewnik Helen P. Brown• Russell F. Conn• Samuel Joseph Galbo• Peter H. Bronstein Alan J. McDonald• Lora C. Pepi Roger J. Brunelle• Evan Crosby• Michael Alan Hacker•• Daniel E. Callahan• Paul F. McDonough• Joseph J. Pruell Phyllis Cela• John H. Cunha• Mary Jo Hollender• Paul K. Cascio• Alexander M. McNeil James M. Puopolo Susan E. Champion Leonard F. DeLuca••• Patrick Thomas Jones• Bruce Chasan• Michael B. Meyer• David G. Ries• Eugene Chow• Debra D. Devaughn Gordon Philip Katz• Terrance P. Christenson• Dennis M. Meyers•• Barbara Ellen Schlaff Denis P. Cohen•• Carl F. Dierker• Cameron F. Kerry• Richard A. Cohen James M. Micali••• Sarah B. Singer• Katherine Litman Cohen•• Thomas J. Douglas Jr.• Stephen Wells Kidder•• John E. Coyne• Elaine M. Moriarty• Paul B. Smyth• Judge Connors• Elizabeth M. Fahey Carol Rudnick Kirchick• Robert L. Dambrov• John A. Murphy• Margaret A. Sofio David A. Cooper• Richard A. Feinstein•• Carol G. Kroch• Harold Damelin John B. Murphy• Jeremy A. Stahlin• Kathy Bourne Cowley• Betty N. Ferber Debra Lay-Renkens• Robert K. Decelles••• William J. Newman• Christopher J. Sterritt• John S. Donahue• Richard V. Fitzgerald• Tim Mahoney• Frank K. Duffy• John G. Neylon• John W. Townsend• Jack A. Donenfeld•• Edward L. Fitzmaurice• Judith Ann Malone•• Vicki W. Dunaway• James E. O’Connor• Robert S. Troy• Daniel Engelstein• Mark S. Furman• Eleanor Frances Martin• Douglass N. Ellis Nicolette M. Pach• Brendan J. Vanston Juliet Ann Eurich Charles E. Gilbert Marilyn Shannon McConaghy Joseph W. Gannon•• Steven L. Paul• Leonard S. Volin• Robert S. Farrington••• Melinda V. Golub• Kathleen M. McKenna•• Richard D. Glovsky• Joseph J. Recupero• Michele A. Von Kelsch Marc Greenbaum Thomas L. Guidi• William John Midon• Steven C. Goodwin• Patricia R. Recupero• Edward R. Wirtanen• Vicki L. Hawkins-Jones•• Francis R. Herrmann• Robert Thomas Morgan Michael S. Greco• Paul G. Roberts• Louis C. Zicht• Mary J. Healey Margaret R. Hinkle• Richard Wright Paul• Timothy D. Jaroch Peter T. Robertson• Richard P. Healey David A. Horan• Lawrence Alfred Podolski• Paul D. Jarvis Rosalyn K. Robinson David A. Howard Norma J. Iacovo Richard Elliott Powers • • 1975 • Jane Lisman Katz•• Alan I. Saltman•• Thomas P. Jalkut•• Anne Leslie Josephson• Therese Devito Pritchard• Robert D. Keefe•• Lawrence R. Sidman•• Berndt W. Anderson• Michael D. Jones•• James F. Kavanaugh Jr• Gary Stewart Rattet• Alice Connolly Kelleher• Robert C. Sudmyer• David M. Banash• Beth A. Kaswan• Douglas Keegan• Alan Michael Reisch Timothy E. Kish Thomas J. Sullivan Kevin B. 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1984 Robert M. Steeg Edward F. Donnelly• Warren J. Hurwitz• Cindy A. Laquidara• Nancy Mayer Hughes Robert James Steele Lawrence E. Fleder John G. Igoe Elaine Rappaport Lev• Joel E. Benard-Cutler Christopher M. Jantzen• Scott Jay Tucker• Gary R. Greene• Sandra L. Jesse• Michael W. Lyons• Benjamin Berry• Kevin P. Kerr• William Robert Underhill• Carol A. Gross• David E. Jose• Alice Marie MacDermott• Scott A. Birnbaum• Brian J. Knez•• Pamela Lilly Washington• Thomas E. Hackney Christopher P. Kauders• Susan Astolfi Mack• Timothy B. Borchers Donna J. Law• Laurel G. Yancey• Paul J. Hartnett• Gary E. Kilpatrick Peter R. Martin Stephen W. Brice Richard J. McCready•• Stephen J. Imbriglia• Peter Y. Lee• Loretta Leone McCabe• Lyman G. Bullard• Rosemary McCready•• Ann Kendall James Michael Liston Paul Joseph Murphy Catherine K. Byrne Patrick McNamara 1979 • • • James H. Lerner•• Francis Matthew Lynch†• William H. Joseph H. Caffrey• Debra Chervinsky Moll• David Winthrop Bianchi John T. 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Straus Marcia Belmonte Young• Stephen Carl Wolf• Suko Gotoh• Denise Ann Ackerman• Jane E. Sullivan• Mark E. Young Glenn Anthony Gulino• Anonymous• Dennis P. Ahern• Michael A. Sullivan Anthony R. Zelle Edmund Patrick Hurley David L. Batty Debra Brown Allen • 1988 • •• • David E. Surprenant• Anne Rickard Jackowitz••• Karen Ann Bogisch• Isabel Barney• Karen Barrios Vazquez David Yorke Bannard Mitchell Seth Kessler Marlissa Shea Briggett David Baron • 1987 • • Joanne Caruso Zaccaro•• Catherine Lashar Baumann• Darcy Kirk• Krista D’Aloia Busnach•• Joseph T. Bartulis• Maris L. Abbene• Brian A. Berube•• Jane P. Kourtis• Michael Kevin Callan George G. Burke• Nicholas Argy Christopher G. Betke Lindsay Li Socheat Chea Susan J. Calger 1986 • • • Edward Gomes Avila• Thomas L. Brayton Deirdre Watson S. Martin Marie Cheung-Truslow Allison S. Cartwright Juan Manuel Acosta• Joseph H. Baldiga Laura Mary Cannon• Howard Wilbur Martin• Maryann Civitello Robert Paul Charbonneau• Tammy L. Arcuri Kathryn Jean Barton•• Jennie Leigh Cherry• Robert John Masonis• Mary Clements Pajak• Douglas Warren Clapp•• Alexander T. Bok• Richard J. Bedell• Kevin J. Curtin•• Anne O’Connor McCrory•• Lisa C. Copenhaver• Andrew Ward Cohen Thomas W. Bridge• Jane A. Bell Carlos J. Deupi†• Denise Marie Parent•• Kathleen C. Corkins• Deborah Sue Cohen• Antonio D. Castro Bruce David Berns• Christopher David Dillon•• Bruce William Raphael• Rosemary Crowley Hal- Kelly McKenna Cournoyer Frank K.N. Chowdry Janet Jean Bobit• Susan Frances Donahue• Nina Collazo Rivera lahan• Glenn Deegan• Scott P. Consoli• Charles Dunstan Boddy• Elizabeth Russell Freeman• Adam C. Robitaille• Maureen E. Curran• Maureen Broe Dodig• Maria Lynn Coyle• Kevin Martin Brown•• Royal C. Gardner• Lisa Marie Ropple Paul G. Cushing Maureen C. Dwyer• Robert P. Coyne Estelle Susan Burg• Michael Emmett Garrity• Kimberly L. Sachse•• Daniel J. Driscoll• Deena Christelis Ethridge Eric D. Daniels• Elena Epifano Byrne• Anthony H. Gemma• Paul E. Salamanca• Mary Ann Dunham Stephen V. Falanga Nancy Mammel Davids• Michael P. Byrne• Maureen Sullivan Gemma• Julia Anne Sheridan• Karen Ann Ecker Elise Sarah Feldman Martha Ann Driscoll Kevin C. Cain• Richard Luke Gemma• Kevin John Simard• Robert D. Emerson• Harold Parker Fiske Thomas H. Durkin• Kathleen McLeod Caminiti• Lori Ellen Grifa Linda Sandstrom Simard• Janet Elie Faulkner• Jennifer Z. Flanagan• Francine Ferris Maher Patricia J. Campanella• James P. Hawkins• Mark Andrew Spitz Charles Fayerweather• Jill W. Goldberg•

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Joel A. Goldberg• Ward Richardson Welles Glenn Gates• Stephanie H. Massey• Lisa Denise Gladke• Tamara J. Devieux-Adams• Adam W. Gurwitz• Kathleen M. White• Jonathan P. Gelber Jennifer L. Millones• Valerie Hope Goldstein• James P. Dowden•• April Pancella Haupt Joshua S. Goodman• Kate Moriarty Gary J. Guzzi• Sean M. Fontes• Jeffrey Alden Healy Michele Goodwin R. Daniel O’Connor Vanessa Magnanini Guzzi James S. Goldman • 1994 • • Patricia A. Johansen• Victoria Lyn Grady• Maryann Joan Rabkin• David Hadas Julie B. Goldman Rodney D. Johnson• Michael J. Amoruso David Hammer• Lisa Allen Rockett• Colleen A. Hankins• Heather E. Hall Alison Napack Kallman• Bridget M. Bettigole•• George H. Harris• Stephanie Vaughn Rosseau Nancy Patricia Hill• David Moses Jellinek• Scott Allen Lively• Kyle Bettigole•• Peter Russell Hinckley Jonathan Sablone Pamela Smith Holleman• Christopher B. Kaczmarek• John F. Malitzis•• Kathleen F. Burke Leslie Hirsch Hochstein Kathleen Margaret Sablone Christopher Jaap• Pamela L. Kearse Patricia A. Markus•• Sarah Shoaf Cabot• John Legus Hunt• Norma J. Scott Barbara T. Kaban• Robert M. Lafferty• James M. McGovern Laura Caltenco• Lani Anne Kimura• Jessica Singal Shapiro• Rafael Klotz• Louis P. A. Lehot•• Thomas Owen Moriarty• Edward J. Carbone• Stephen Allan Kremer• Jill O’Connor Shugrue• Siobhan E. Mee Scott S. Mazur• Lynne Alix Morrison• Eugenia M. Carris• Edouard Charles LeFevre• Alice B. Taylor• Jennifer Anne Mencken• Christine Dreyer McCay Valerie J. Nevel• Karen Clark• Sandra Lespinasse• Joshua Milton Wepman Kathleen Welch Orejuela• David McCay Jeanne M. Picerne•• Brian J. Connor• Pamela B. Lyons• David Francis Whelton• Christopher Drake Perry Monique McNeil Jennifer D. Queally• William Dennis Cramer Randall Eugene McMillan Odette A. Williamson• Christopher Michael Read• Danielle L. Meagher• Dennis Charles Quinn• Carolyn D’Agincourt• Peter John Millones• Kevin L. Reiner• Kevin M. Meagher• Richard Paul Rhodes Jr. Buckmaster De Wolf Joseph P. Mingolla Meredith Anne Rosenthal Kamyar Mehdiyoun • • • 1997 • • Mary Ellen Ringo• Cynthia Hallock Deegan• Lisa Nalchajian Mingolla• Jason S. Rozes• Joseph Justin Mueller•• Julie A. Rossetti• Kerry Dwyer• Kimberly Short Morgner• Sejal Natu Badani• Andrew Jonas Simons• Nicole Ciszak Murphy• Mark Anthony Schemmel• Martin Scott Ebel• Nicole Shurman Murray• John T. Battaglia• Leslie Faye Wen Su Suzanne E. Murray• Diana Schur• Wendy Falvey Vicente Matias Murrell• David Matthew Belcher• Vasiliki L. Tripodis• Jennifer Clark Pearson• Gina M. Signorello• Susan Hanmer Farina•• Dana Ng• Peter G. Brassard• Amanda Buck Varella Richard C. Rossi• Eric H. Sills Ann M. Farrell• Susan J. Nock• Thanda A. Fields Brassard John David Varella Joseph Edward Ruccio• Mark F. Tatelbaum• Lorne M. Fienberg• John D. Norberg•• Brian Patrick Carey Mi-Rang Yoon Stacey Nicole Schmidt• Julia T. Thompson Maria Carroll Furlong• Lisa M. Ortiz• Tracy A. Catapano-Fox• Dana A. Zakarian Diana M. Steel• Jim P. Warner• Matthew Francis Furlong• Denise Ann Pelletier• David Cerveny Myrna Mejia Zakarian Meredith A. Swisher Robert J. Weber•• Carlos A. Garcia Philip Privitera•• F. Bruce Cohen•• Toiya L. Taylor• Wendy Wodarski Christine Farrell Grochowski Ana M. Rivera Diana M. Collazo Tamara Lynn Wilson • • 1999 • Lise Hamilton Hall Steven Marc Rosenthal Jennifer A. Creedon Michael Heningburg Jr. Ingrid Chiemi Schroffner Beth Criswell Doron Peleg Azrialy 1993 • • • 2001 David Hobum Hwang• Mathieu Shapiro• John DeSimone• Thomas W. Beetham Bradford Babbitt• Paul M. Joy• Shaun B. Spencer• Jason E. Dunn• Brian Lawrence Berlandi Tara N. Auciello• Mary Elizabeth Basile Chopas• Brian J. King• Lisa A. Tavares Bodiford Brian E. Falvey Jonathan Bryan Brooks•• Sina Bahadoran• Laura Scanlan Beliveau• John B. Livingston• Kathryn Allaire Thomas• Nicole R. Hadas Gregory Francis Corbett• Elaine K. Benfield Mark Thomas Benedict•• Christopher Mace Lucas• Andrew F. Upton• Stuart J. Hamilton•• Karen A. Fardig Brandon L. Bigelow Brigida Benitez• Kelly Mulvoy Mangan• Michael R. Harrington Matthew James Feeley• Bradley G. Bjelke• Stephen D. Browning Stephanie H. Masiello Laurie Hauber Meghan Monahan Hart Michael W. Choi • 1996 Clare F. Carroll• Laura Jean McCollum• Sean Hill• Young Soo Jo• Elijah E. Cocks Michael John Cayer• Maureen A. McLoughlin• David S. Bakst Mark Stephen Kaduboski• Amy J. Krusius• Matthew A. Corcoran• Karen N. Chieco Jennifer Moeckel• Raejean M. Battin• John Kavanagh Kristin Laura Lentz• Daniel G. Cromack• Kristin Lynn Cihak• Caitlin Mullin• Danielle Salvucci Black•• Christine A. Kelly• Judith Marie Lyons• Colin Christopher Durham• Jennifer Dowd Deakin• Terrence J. Murray• Christopher Lee Blake• Matthew Joseph Kelly• Christopher M. McManus• Cara A. Fauci• Christine A. DeGrappo• Helen O’Rourke• Andrew Peter Borggaard•• Vincent W. Lau• Elizabeth Grace Moulds• Frances L. Felice John A. Dolan• Melissa Polaner• Jennifer M. Borggaard•• Jennifer Shih Yi Lin Christopher H. Murphy• John Arthur Foust Elizabeth H. Dow• Yolanda Williams Rabun Andre Burrell David Harold London• Patrick A. Nickler• Samantha Gerlovin• Alicia L. Downey• Rosemary Ratcliff• Thomas R. Burton III•• Robert J. Malionek David Osborne• Kevin M. Granahan• Stacey Jill Drubner• Diane Cetrulo Savage• Christine Kelley Bush• Douglas B. McLaughlin• Gregory M. O’Shaughnessy• Timothy W. Gray• John Bradley Ellis• Samantha L. Shepherd• Joyce D. Campbell Priveterre Cynthia Millsap Zarate• Peter John Petrarca• Laura S. Greenberg-Chao• Robert Howard Finney• Nerre Shuriah•• Anna C. Caspersen• Joyce Beth Moscarelli• Yvette Politis• Carol E. Head Timothy Alan Gagnon• Anne Stuart• Bradford Caswell Thomas James Murphy Stephen D. Riden• Joseph C. Holden Peter J. Gannon• Antonia Soares Thompson• Laurie Aurelia Cerveny Laurence Patrick Naughton• Carmen-Lucia Rodriguez Linnea Ovans Holmes• Christine Griffin Elaine Shimkin Ventola•• Edward Shieh Cheng• Abigail Sterling Olsen• Scott W. Rostock Wesley Charles Holmes• Gerald L. Harmon• John F. Ventola•• Paul T. Citardi Brian J. O’Rourke• Eugene Smith Frances M. Impellizzeri• Andrew Joseph Hayden• Kathleen Alyce Waters• Albert Andrew Dahlberg• Barbara J. Osborne• James Michael Tierney• Erin M. Kelly• Shannon Shay Hayden• Kimberly A. White Cece Cassandra Davenport Fernando M. Pinguelo Eric Pope Van Allen Eben A. Krim Charles Bernard Katz• Yaron Dori• Timothy F. Silva• Sarah Anne Weersing Alisha Marie Lee• James Paul Kerr Kristen Potter Farnham Laura M. Twomey Edward Francis Whitesell Jaemin Lee • 1995 • • Marianne LeBlanc• Robert Fletcher Daniel H. Weintraub• Jessica Wolff Christine M. Leonard Richard Edward Ling Sreelekha Chakrabarty Alexander Furey Karen Elizabeth Wozniak• Michael T. Marcucci• Rita Lu Amoruso Jennifer Furey Lincoln M. Wright Jenette V. Mathai • 1998 Thomas F. Maloney• Stacey A. L. Best• Daniel Keith Hampton• David Joseph Yanotchko Rosemary E. McCormack James Chafel McGrath Garrett J. Bradley• Tena Z. Herlihy Pamela Zorn Adams• Brennan McDonough Andres L. Navarrete Heather M. Bradley Robert Evan Hochstein Connie Y. Barton Aislinn S. McGuire • • • 2000 • Christine Conley Palladino• David William Brown Fiona Trevelyan Hornblower Darcie P. L. Beaudin• Louis S. Mercedes Kenneth J. Samuel• Catherine Sheehan Bruno• Mark D. Houle• Karen Barry Carter• Lia Marie Albizo Marguerite Marie Mitchell• Donald James Savery• Christopher A. Callanan• Elizabeth Dees Janis• David B. Colleran• Ashley E. Arroyo• Brian W. Monnich Erin Keleher Shea John W. Dinneen• John David Kelley• Jennifer Mina DeTeso Mary Liz Brenninkmeyer• Christopher M. Morrison• Sean E. Spillane• Eric Einhorn• Daniel Dennis Kelly John James Devenny Gale Kuei-Ling Chang Bryan A. Nickels• Elizabeth Z. 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62 BC LAW MAGAZINE Winter 2018 • DEAN’S COUNCIL MEMBER • SHAW SOCIETY MEMBER • DRINAN SOCIETY • DRINAN SOCIETY SUSTAINING MEMBER † DECEASED Amy B. Snyder John M. Creedon• Jaime Koff Cohen• Eleftheria S. Keans• Michael N. Javid• Benjamin D. Greenberg• Briana E. Thibeau Jessica R. Graham• Jesse Cook-Dubin Timothy A. Landry• Garrett T. Johnston• Katherine A. Guarino• Jamie E. Thomas Una Y. Kang• Laurel E. Davis• Stuart T. Leslie• Jane Hill Lovins Robert S. Hatfield III• Courtney D. Trombly• Michael D. Lichtenstein• Sarah J. Davis Michelle B. Limaj• Adam J. McGovern• Dylan Hayre April Lauren Wilmar Kathryn C. Loring• Andrew R. Dennington Sandra V. Lora• Matthew Thomas Murphy• Brian D. Hern• Jeremy T. Marr• Gauri M. Dhavan Julia Monack McLetchie James Nagelberg Kathryn Kargman Holden Katherine G. McKenney Emily N. Duquette David E. Mollo-Christensen Kevin M. Neubauer Melanie Riccobene Jarboe 2002 • • • • Brian C. McPeake• Brian R. Falk Jill Tenley Mueller• Bridget K. O’Connell Elizabeth L. Kinsman• Reuben B. Ackerman• Dana M. McSherry• Lauren E. Fascett• Joseph Palazzo• Matthew H. Parker• Andrew H. Lynch• Earl Adams Jr.• Jeffrey Robert Moran• Sharon S. Fry• Tiffany Morris Palazzo• Kelly E. Reardon• Matthew E. Maguire Amy B. Auth• Kirsten A. Noethen Thomas E. Hand• Andrew R. Remming• Bene I. Richardson David A. Mawhinney• Raquel Millman Bodner David E. O’Leary• Jodi K. Hanover Jillian G. Remming• Jed S. Rosenkrantz Meghan E. McCarthy Brian S. Butler Rita-Anne O’Neill•• Heather Fowell Harper Alberto Rodriguez• Jonathan B. Roses• Rebecca Melaas• Matthew P. Cormier• Elliot W. Oxman Catherine A. Henry• Jeffrey S. Rogan• Gaurav Singh Jonathan A. Menkes• Rosalynn Hsu Cormier• Tracy Piatkowski• Tracy L. Hresko Katherine M. Romano Daniel P. Spivey Ryan R. Montgomery• Ryan Erik Driscoll• Mary Catherine Pieroni• Charles M. Katz-Leavy Kevin N. Santos Carol Vasconcellos•• Siri E. Nilsson•• Lurleen Gannon• Helle Sachse• Seth J. Kerschner Joe Michael Sasanuma• Caitlin Vaughn• Kathleen Dyer Parker• Jeffrey D. Gaulin Matthew D. Saldarelli Jonathan D.H. Lamb Luke M. Scheuer• Michael Philip Visconti III• Elizabeth C. Pendergast Lisa M. Gaulin Lindsey B. Sands• Renee A. Latour Joseph Schott• Christian J. Westra Debra Eichenbaum Perlin• Maureen L. Goodman• Adrienne Schneier Schamberg Amy K. Lyster Christopher T. Stevenson Kelli J. Powell• Anabelle Perez Gray Eliyahu S. Scheiman Jason G. Mahoney Christina B. Ward Christopher E. Queenin • • • 2010 Cynthia M. Guizzetti• Christine M. Siscaretti Lan L. Marinelli Anne Austin Zeckser• Alexandra W. Reimelt• Anthony R. Marciano• Heather A. Sprague• Matthew L. McGinnis Jessica M. Ball• Laura Prieston Rich• Katherine Sandman McKinley Jeremy A. Valdez Anne M. McLaughlin Alexander X. Berrio Matam- Ryan M. Rourke Reed • • 2008 Michael P. Murphy Elizabeth Buckey Stephen T. Melnick• oros• Nathan S. Scherbarth• Dwayne A. Nash Vandesteeg• Jennifer R. Mendonca Adam M. Baker•• Henry R. Bouchot Maria J. Strickland• Robert J. O’Keefe• Thomas A. Voltero Jr.• Anthony F. Montaruli• Christina Queiros Bouchot Elizabeth A. Clerkin• Meghan M. Sullivan• Jeffrey Scott Ranen• Ashley H. Wisneski• Greg Pakhladzhyan Mary E. Cloues• Mariel S. Dator- Joseph T. Toomey Jeffrey W. Roberts• Emily K. Yu• Anne E. Palmer• Julie A. Dahlstrom• Obersheimer• Leann Goree Walsh Douglas A. Sondgeroth• Pamela Schafer Rayne• Allison C. Davis• Donn Dingle• Daniel B. Weinger• Lance A. Wade Dana L. Robinson Jill A. DiGiovanni Angela M. Guarino • 2005 • • • Emily L. Walsh Martha Rockwood Rebecca A. Haciski Stacy Marie Hadeka • • • 2012 Cristina M. Woods• Kathleen M. Celio• Rebecca N. Rogers• Evan C. Holden• Rebecca R. Hanft Javier Chavez Jr.• Maura D. Sarasin Cronin Michelle E. Kanter• Igor Helman• Sam Ahmed Charity R. Clark Katherine Sieb-Keenan Katherine Bartlett Kimball Ethan A. Hougah Kara B. Amouyal 2003 • • • • Rebecca Tobin Craven• Alison Hickey Silveira Toni Ann Kruse Ryan F. 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Hao• Anne R. Gordon•• Karen A. VanderMeer•

Winter 2018 BC LAW MAGAZINE 63 The 2016-2017 Giving Report shaw society Legacy gifts are part of a deeply rooted tradition at Boston College Law School. We proudly honor those alumni and friends who have made a legacy commitment to BC Law and have joined our Shaw Society, named for Joseph Coolidge Shaw, SJ, who helped found Boston College with the University’s first legacy gift.

Anonymous Edith N. Dinneen ’73 William J. Lundregan ’67 P’93’96 Jeffrey P. ’68 and Mary M. Somers Estate of Rosemary Howard Anonymous ’58 Anthony R. ’60 and Antonina R. ’81 and John G. Manfreda Robert E. Sullivan ’66 Justin P. Hughes ’70 Anonymous ’59 Emily M. DiPietro P’86 Stacey Anne Marcellino William C. ’68 and George P. Khouri ’51 Anonymous ’70 Jack A. ’76 and Beryl B. Donenfeld James E. McDermott ’80 and Sharon Michele Doyle Sullivan John Kieran Anonymous ’72 William G. Donnelly ’68 A. Bazarian Linda Lee Sutliff Yvonne C. Lacy Anonymous ’74 Christopher E. Doyle ’70 Charles S. McLaughlin ’74 and John A. ’81 and Patrice Tarantino P’12 Jane Tobin Lundregan ’67 P’93’96 Anonymous ’74 P’10 William F. ’69 and Ann Noble Peter W. Thoms ’68 and Abby Colihan James J. Marcellino ’68 Anonymous ’75 Shelley Macarthur Farley Mary Hallisey McNamara Joseph M. ’87 and Laura Vanek John F. McCarty ’54 and Anonymous ’78 Robert S. ’76 and Mary Ellen Farrington Christopher G. ’77 and Barry Jay ’78 and Nancy Ward Estate of Therese H. McCarty Anonymous ’93 Charles D. Ferris ’61 Jayne Saperstein Mehne Mark Joseph ’89 and Paul J. McNamara ’65 Hugh J. Ault and Richard M. Gaberman ’63 Robert C. Mendelson ’80 Susan Ferren Warner P’19 Estate of Helen M. Murphy Martina David-Ault William F. ’81 and Ellen B. ’86 Grieco James M. ’73 and Lisa K. Micali Jody Pullen Williams ’83 Estate of Neale D. Murphy ’55 P’73 Edward C. Bassett ’77 Charles J. ’59 and Mark C. ’85 and David Wirth Enid Nelson Jill Nexon Berman ’78 Barbara Vazza Gulino Nancy E. J. Michalowski Douglas L. ’78 and Maureen E. Wisner Estate of John D. Nelson Jr. Roger M. ’62 and Barbara Bougie Stuart J. Hamilton ’97 and Elwynn J. Miller ’60 Estate of Denise O’Brien ’78 Peter R. ’81 and Susan Vogt ’83 Brown Betty A. Pomerleau John N. ’80 and Valerie A. Montalbano DECEASED Richard Daniel Packenham ’78 John M. ’74 and Jane Brunner B. L. Hassenfeld-Rutberg ’65 P’92 John T. ’75 and Anonymous ’43 Michael J. Petrina George G. ’59 and and Martin Rutberg Kristin Montgomery P’06’11 Anonymous ’49 Francis W. Phelan ’33 Sandra Backofen Burke P’92 Dorothy Connolly Healy Raymond F. ’61 and Pamelee Murphy Anonymous ’52 Estate of Albert R. and Joseph H. Burke ’72 and John A. ’82 and Donald W. ’66 and Salvatore E. Aloisi ’34 Rita L. Pitcoff N. Lee Deangelis Norma Jeanne ’82 Herbers Christine S. Northrup Adolph N. Anderson ’53 and Kathryn Conway Preyer Kevin Michael Carome ’82 John B. ’52 and Cornelia K. Hogan Jo Ellen ’79 and Enrique Ojeda Estate of Ruth Frances Anderson Mary B. Radwick Megan Elizabeth Carroll ’92 Ruth-Arlene W. ’74 and Peter A. Pavarini ’77 and Estate of George Ankeles ’35 Estate of Joseph Rogers ’41 James A. ’68 and Lois Champy Theodore H. Howe Colleen A. Wulf Joseph C. Barry ’47 Estate of Ruth C. Ryan Robert C. Ciricillo ’70 Ellen S. ’75 and Jeffrey G. Huvelle Helen L. Petrina Theophile J. Bernhardt ’49 Estate of V. Frederi Sano Denis P. Cohen ’76 Anne Rickard ’89 and Todd Jackowitz Michael J. ’77 and Christine Marie Puzo Russell E. Brennan ’34 John H. Schaaf ’51 Juan Alexander Concepcion ’03 and John A. ’60 and Mary Louise Johnson Christine P. and Scott A. Ritch ’87 Philip H. R. Cahill ’48 Estate of Alfred Schwartz Jessica L. Savilonis Anne P. Jones ’61 William P. Robinson III ’75 and William F. ’35 and Marie C. Chisholm Thomas H. Seaver ’49 David A. Cooper ’76 Raymond J. Kenney Jr. ’58 and Marlene Robinson Estate of Walter E. Clark ’49 William G. Shea ’48 Don Joseph Julio Cordell ’94 Claire L. Kenney Anne Rogers ’77 and John Simpson Mary F. Costello ’79 Estate of George Shrigley ’38 Robert V. ’69 and Janet A. Costello John C. Lacy ’48 S. Jane Rose ’77 Estate of Jerry A. DiNardo ’52 Harold A. Stevens ’36 and Julian J. D’Agostine ’53 Dennis A. Lalli ’77 Lawrence A. ’58 and Lois Ruttman Estate of John H. Doermann ’56 Estate of Ella M. Stevens Robert K. Decelles ’72 and James P. ’77 and Jeffrey S. ’77 and Evelyn L. Sabin James E. Dowd ’49 Estate of Helen Jane Sullivan Mary L. Dupont Dona Metcalf Laughlin Kitt ’77 and Heather B. Sawitsky Lawrence J. Fitzgerald ’47 Walter F. Sullivan ’47 P’66 Karen G. Del Ponte ’83 Stephen J. Laurent ’74 Herbert J. ’64 and Diane Schneider Lawrence S. Flaherty ’47 Tedd J. ’35 and Victoria E. Syak Paul A. ’75 and Paula Delory Edward R. ’71 and Patricia M. Leahy Marianne D. Short ’76 and Christopher J. Flynn ’52 Estate of F. J. Thompson ’35 Leonard F. ’77 and Edward A. ’67 and Anna M. Lenz Raymond L. Skowyra Jr. Daniel A. Healy ’48 James F. Travers ’49 Geraldine Healy DeLuca Thomas T. Lonardo ’73 Gary M. Sidell ’77 and Phyllis Cela ’76 John J. C. ’49 and Mary Herlihy P’81’90 David R. White ’49 Ernest Michael ’78 and Anne Dichele Joan Lukey ’74 and Philip D. Stevenson Leonard E. Sienko Jr. ’77 Daniel G. Holland ’44 William T. White ’50

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Winter 2018 BC LAW MAGAZINE 67 In Closing

Uber’s recent troubles include investor lawsuits, a major data breach, and a scathing report on workplace culture by former Attorney General Eric Holder. Uber is just the latest in a string of unicorns to face major scandal. The blood testing start-up Theranos collapsed in 2015 when reports showed its technology did not work as promised. The CEO Social Finance recently stepped down amid reports of a frat-like atmosphere at the company. The rise of the unicorn did not happen by chance, and the extent of unicorn misconduct should not surprise us. As I explain in a recent essay, “The Unicorn Governance Trap,” in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online, these shifts connect to legal reforms that allow start-ups to raise billions in funding while indefinitely delaying an IPO. Google and Facebook went public because of a simple rule that required large companies with at least 500 shareholders to disclose financial information to the public. When faced with this requirement, most start-up companies chose to pursue an IPO. Congress abolished this rule in 2012. The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) raised the number of shareholders that requires public disclosure from only 500 to 2,000. This new law eliminated the one hard and fast rule that drove many tech companies toward an IPO. Start-ups can now stay private as long as they want, and shield themselves from public scrutiny indefinitely. Delaying an IPO often means deferring steps needed to create internal controls and provide for external ac- countability. Before an IPO, a company aims to impress the professionals who will help sell their shares. Under- writers, accountants, and analysts all closely scrutinize the company and its management team. To prepare for this intense vetting, a company will hire seasoned profes- It’s Time Unicorns Grew Up sionals and recruit independent directors to help put its For start-ups, maturity is spelled ‘IPO.’ BY PROFESSOR RENEE M. JONES best foot forward. Without pressure for an IPO, unicorns lack incen- Like modern-day millennials, our fastest growing tech companies tives to develop internal systems appropriate for their have decided to delay adulthood. Unlike earlier generations of size and scale. Unaccountable unicorns pose dangers to employees who often endure chaotic and hostile work entrepreneurs, today’s founders grow their companies into multi- environments. Their lack of transparency creates space billion dollar enterprises without planning for an IPO—the tradi- for unicorns to skirt or flout the law. tional rite of passage for successful start-ups. When a young adult How should Congress address unicorn risks? The fails to launch, she may end up living in her parents’ basement. recent truce at Uber provides a blueprint for reform. To When an influential tech company fails to mature, the impact can attract new investors, Uber agreed to a timetable for an be more severe: toxic corporate cultures, consumer fraud, and IPO by 2019. In setting a path forward, Uber abandoned billions of dollars in losses for investors. ¶ Controversies at Uber a feature of start-up governance that contributes to unicorn failure. Congress should learn from Silicon Valley’s draw attention to problems created by a growing number of high recent misadventures and reinstate the rules that once value private companies in our economy. These billion-dollar forced companies with a significant number of share- start-ups, the so-called unicorns, have multiplied. Today, there are holders to disclose financial information to the public. more than 260 unicorns compared to only 40 in 2013. It’s long past time for unicorns to grow up.

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