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A BC Law Love Story The Inspiring Professor Hillinger Annual Report on Giving www.bc.edu/bclawmagazine BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE Fall | Winter 2013 GETTING OUT OF GUANTÁNAMO Habeas Attorney Michael Mone Jr.’s Struggle to End a Detainee’s Decade-Long Captivity Seeking Law Day Nominations e welcome your nominations for future Law Day awards. Please take a moment to think about a former student, friend, colleague, or member of the community Wwho deserves consideration. The awards are: ST. THOMAS MORE AWARD Recognizes a member of the legal community who represents the ideals of St. Thomas More. (Not limited to BC Law alumni.) WILLIAM J. KENEALY, SJ, ALUMNUS / ALUMNA OF THE YEAR AWARD Recognizes a graduate who has given of him or herself to benefit the Law School community. HON. DAVID S. NELSON PUBLIC INTEREST LAW AWARD Recognizes a graduate who has made a noteworthy contribution to the public sector or in public interest law. DANIEL G. HOLLAND LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Recognizes a graduate who has made significant contributions to the Law School and/or the community. RECENT GRADUATE AWARD Recognizes the outstanding achievements of an individual who has graduated in the past five to ten years. SPECIAL SERVICE AWARD Recognizes a faculty member (often at the time of retirement or movement to emeritus status) for extraordinary service to the Law School. SAVE REGIONAL CHAPTER AWARD Recognizes alumni THE DATE who have made significant contributions to the development of their regional BC Law Alumni Chapters. Law Day To make a nomination, please state the award(s) for which he/she is May 1, 2014 being nominated, include a short biography and description of why the nominee fits the specific award criteria, and submit to Director of Alumni Boston Harbor Relations Christine A. Kelly ’97 at 617-552-4703 or [email protected]. Hotel Contents FALL / WINTER 2013 VOLUME 22 | NUMBER 1 20 PATRICK O’CONNOR FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 2 In Limine 14 GREAT CASES The Shame of Guantánamo 3 Behind the Columns For habeas attorney Michael Mone Jr. ’96, 4 In Brief the rule of law is not an abstraction. It’s a cause. 10 Legal Currents By Jeri Zeder THE NEW ‘HAVING IT ALL’ Striving for work/life balance 20 Terrifying and Tender 12 Hot Topics Why anyone who’s ever studied with Ingrid Mary McAleese tells how she Hillinger will never forget her. By Jane Whitehead made peace in Ireland 30 Global Engagement Love Story 26 32 Point of View Will she call him? Will she not? Joanne Caruso and Thomas Zaccaro’s curious romance. 34 Faculty By Vicki Sanders PROFILE Professor Katharine Young FACULTY NEWS 39 Esquire ALUMNI NEWS GENERATIONS CLASS NOTES 49 Report on Giving 64 In Closing cover: Illustration by Yuko Shimizu above: Professor Ingrid Hillinger is one of twenty-six outstanding educators featured in What the Best Law Teachers Do. Page 20. WWW.BC.EDU/LAWALUMNI 1 [ I N L IMINE ] FALL / WINTER 2013 VOLUME 22 NUMBER 1 The Law School’s New Self Dean Vincent Rougeau Innovations stir excitement as vision becomes reality Editor in Chief Vicki Sanders t is interesting to watch a dean’s vision turn into initiatives that are now dra- ([email protected]) matically changing the course of BC Law. Inspired by a passion for innovation, I the Law School has been busy this past year; the virtual is becoming real and Contributing Editor everywhere you look exciting programs and bold initiatives are taking shape. Deborah J. Wakefield Recognizing that experiential learning is a key element in the future of legal education, Dean Vincent Rougeau a year ago appointed Paul Tremblay as Faculty Contributing Writers Director of Experiential Learning and now has announced the creation of the Cen- Steven Chen ’13 ter for Experiential Learning (page 38). It’s an inspired move that will bring all of Jessica Frattaroli ’14 the Law School’s clinics and external hands-on learning programs under one roof. Elaine McArdle Opening in the fall of 2014, the center will function as both a law firm within the Anthony Signoracci ’14 Law School and a resource-rich environment where clinical faculty and students can work side-by-side and move seamlessly from classrooms to clinics. The center Erik Stier ’14 will be housed initially in the Smith Wing on the Newton campus. Jane Whitehead The Law School is also moving swiftly to expand its global footprint. Last July Jeri Zeder Professor Frank Garcia was appointed Associate Dean for Global Initiatives and charged with reshaping the international curriculum and programming. Two major Photographers steps have resulted and more are in the offing. One is the hiring of an associate Suzi Camarata director of graduate legal education to supervise international visiting scholars and Jared Charney LLM and exchange students (page 30). Two is the establishment of the Global Patrick O’Connor Practice Program, which has already initiated a relationship with the Sorbonne to Jason Rouse, MTS, BC offer BC Law students the opportunity to earn a JD/LLM there (page 31). Talks are Judy Sanders/Wildsands under way for possible collaborations in Australia and Latin America. Kevin Scanlon Of course, no amount of law school programming will enable stu- Dana Smith dents to achieve their potential without a first-class faculty to guide Christopher Soldt, MTS, BC them. In the 2013 book, What the Best Law Teachers Do, whose authors scoured American law schools to find twenty-six exemplars of Printing the finest in legal pedagogy, contracts professor Ingrid Hillinger was R. C. Brayshaw & Company among those selected. How does a teacher earn her students’ devotion even as she terrifies them? The story on page 20 explains what makes Boston College Law School of Newton, Hillinger a giant in the classroom. In related news, three academic pow- Massachusetts 02459-1163, publishes erhouses will be joining BC Law in named professorships in the coming months. BC Law Magazine two times a year: in January and June. BC Law Magazine is Learn who they are on page 37. printed by R. C. Brayshaw & Company And now—just in time for Valentine’s Day—we speak of a different kind of in Warner and West Lebanon, NH. We welcome readers’ comments. Contact us passion: the personal love story. Nearly 750 people have been hit by Cupid’s arrow by phone at 617-552-2873; by mail at while at the Law School. Among them are Thomas and Joanne Caruso Zaccaro, Boston College Law School Magazine, who share the tale of their not-exactly-love-at-first-sight courtship and their very 885 Centre Street, Newton, MA 02459- 1163; or by email at [email protected]. happy ending (page 26). Copyright © 2013, Boston College Law —Vicki Sanders School. All publication rights reserved. Editor Opinions expressed in BC Law Magazine do not necessarily reflect the views of Boston College Law School or Boston College. TIFFANY WILDING-WHITE 2 BC LAW MAGAZINE | FALL / WINTER 2013 [ B EHIND THE C OLUMNS ] Rules and Procedures as Instruments of Destruction If America continues to pull apart its democratic structures, we will be undone spent a good portion of last fall’s US government cleaning the offices of the world’s largest banks for shutdown at a conference in London, where I wages that left them impoverished despite full-time found myself in the rather uncomfortable posi- employment. With the help of religious institutions I tion of attempting to explain the inexplicable and community organizations, they were able to to British friends and colleagues. I think it is fair to organize themselves and secure higher hourly pay. say that most Americans, regardless of their political Although resistant at first, the banks soon realized affiliation or views, are deeply uncomfortable with a political system that seems increasingly incapable of governing effectively, and in which a minority of the Congress think nothing of manufacturing a crisis When key actors in our because they are unwilling to accept the results of the democratic institutions begin democratic process. Those of us who study and respect the law rec- to believe that their ends ognize that fair process is vital to the stability of a justify any means, rules and democracy, but when key actors in our democratic institutions begin to believe that their ends justify any procedures can easily become means, rules and procedures can easily become tools tools of destruction. of destruction. In his book, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, George Packer offers deeper insights on these developments as he chron- icles the collapse of key structures of American life over the last forty years. Organizations that nurtured that an investment in the improved circumstances of community and instructed us on the relationship local workers paid a range of dividends. A byproduct between shared sacrifice and the promotion of the of the workers’ action has been a community partner- common good—unions, political parties, social clubs, ship among many of the banks and some of London’s religious congregations—have seen their member- poorest communities, a relationship that helped to ships dwindle.