Boston University School of Law

is proud to have received a 2026 Excellence in Innovation: Law Schools recognition from Insight Into Academia magazine!

BU Law is honored for our Judicial Clerkship Program, which represents a comprehensive, community-driven approach to preparing students for judicial service and expanding access to clerkship opportunities.

Save the Date for Alumni Weekend 2026!

Join for a weekend of connection and community! All BU Law alumni are invited back to campus for Alumni Weekend on September 18-19, 2026.

This year's newly expanded program brings together alumni from across generations for social gatherings, conversations about BU Law today, special celebrations for those marking reunion years, a reception for our LLM community, and our signature Silver Shingle Dinner. Whether you're reconnecting with classmates or discovering new connections within the BU Law community, there's something for everyone.

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Katharine Silbaugh discusses the growing resistance to the adoption of statewide generational ni****ne restrictions in Massachusetts, explaining that the legislation “wasn’t going to go anywhere until more towns and cities passed it.”

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Nearly five years in, the ‘Nicotine-Free Generation’ movement could go up in smoke, advocates warn - The Boston Globe The ni****ne-free movement has yet to reach the widespread adoption that advocates say they’ll need to achieve their goal of phasing out ni****ne use for future generations.

Jessica Silbey joined Harvard Law School to discuss copyright law in the age of AI, explaining that the original intent of copyright law — first passed in 1790 — was to promote progress by incentivizing humans to create important works. The office now requires potential registrants to disclose if any part of their work was made with generative AI.

“We might start seeing practice-driven specificity,” she said. “In music, in video games, in movies, the industries are going to start deciding before the law does what kind of AI we are going to say is creative and is acceptable and what is not.”

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Copyright law ‘struggling’ to parse AI’s ascendancy - Harvard Law School Deferring hard decisions about which kinds of machine-assisted creative works can be copyrighted over nearly 250 years has made it harder to ascertain whether works produced with the help of artificial intelligence can receive legal protection, according to Harvard Law School Professor Rebecca Tushn...

Check out the Clinical & Experiential Programs Spring/Summer 2026 newsletter for an update on student successes, program highlights, and news from the past semester ➡️ http://spr.ly/6189B8LTJF

Congratulations to Leena Khurana (’28), Jack Moses (’28), Khanh "Jerry" Nguyen (’28), and Aashaya Rajbhandari (’28) on being selected for the Boston Bar Association Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (DEIB) Summer Fellowship Program!

The program aims to ensure that law students from all backgrounds can gain meaningful experience in public interest law. This summer, Khurana will work with the Massachusetts Appeals Court, Moses the Civil Service Commission, Nguyen the Attorney General’s Office, and Rajbhandari the Office of the Inspector General.

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Last week, Julie Dahlstrom was sworn in to Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey's Council to Address Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and Human Trafficking.

The Council’s goals are to improve prevention, hold perpetrators accountable, and enhance support for those impacted by sexual assault, domestic violence, and human trafficking.

Dahlstrom will serve alongside Nathan Brewer, Director of Survivor Advocacy, Response & Prevention at Boston University Student Health Services and alumna Emily Leung (LAW’07, GRS’08), Director of Immigration Advocacy at the Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts.

Woodrow Hartzog discusses the face-recognition technology, internally called “NameTag,” Meta has quietly embedded into its smart glasses ecosystem and companion app, potentially enabling users to identify people they see through the glasses.

While the feature isn't active yet, privacy advocates warn it could normalize biometric surveillance and raise major concerns about consent, stalking, and public privacy.

“We know that the more these systems are deployed, the more people come to see them as unexceptional,” Hartzog says. “And the more we come to see them as unexceptional and routine, the more people tend to start to take their moral cues about whether it's desirable or good to have your face scanned. That's just human psychology.”

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Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.

Congratulations to Julia Berard (’28), Yssis Cano-Santiago (’28), and Jennifer Price (CAS’22, LAW’28) on being named 2026 Rappaport Fellows!

Each year, the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy selects recipients from the Boston area to receive its summer fellowships focused on public policy and service.

Berard will spend her summer with the Attorney General’s Office in the Reproductive Justice Unit, Cano-Santiago with the Attorney General’s Office in the Medicaid Fraud Division, and Price with the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth.

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Congratulations to Kai MacLean (’26) and Olivia Reeves (’26) on your Equal Justice Works fellowships!

MacLean will be working with the Justice Resource Institute to support people reentering the community after incarceration who face disproportionate overdose risk, by providing trauma-informed, client-centered, and low-barrier legal services.

Reeves will be working with the Northeast Justice Center to mitigate the harms of workplace pregnancy discrimination and situate the Northeastern Massachusetts community to address pregnancy discrimination attempts at the individual and legislative levels.

Thank you to the generosity of Pfizer and the Fricklas & Astion Foundation for sponsoring these EJW fellowships!