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BOSTON COLLEGE
LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE
SUMMER 2026
BC.EDU/BCLAWMAGAZINE
PLUS
PROFILE
Career
Hero
Why Steven
Wright ’81
Became a
Role Model
IDEAS
GREAT CASE Imagine
TRIAL
This
A New Vision
for Social Media
FACULTY
Lethal
BY FIRE Harm
The ‘Danger
Narrative’
in American
Policing
How David Yannetti ’89
and Four BC Law Students
Built a Successful Defense
in the Karen Read Case
Page 18
Closing
an Era
Robert Bloom an
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8 Features 18 Trial by Fire David Yannetti ’89 br
IN LIMINE Foremost Framing aVision of BC Law
FOR THE RECORD SUMMER 2026 VOLU
BEHIND THE COLUMNS Foremost A Cultivator of
Campus News and Events of Note IN BRIEF 6 BRAINST
DOCKET In Brief
PHOTOGRAPHS, BROWN: ADAM DETOUR; JONES: DIANA LEV
DOCKET Brainstorm
Q+A WITH JUDGE DAVID BARRON and DEAN ODET
DOCKET In the Field
1234 street-cleaning regulations while she vi
DOCKET Candid New Insights at Every Turn Hal
Summer 2026 BC LAW MAGAZINE 13
DOCKET Faculty Scholarship The Stories We Te
Eisenberg focuses on how institutional actors are
DOCKET Evidence The Truth Behind Bars What t
THE MONEY TRAIL $455 billion $13.6 billion
TRIAL BY
IN EARLY 2022, in one of the most sensational cas
The Read defense team, along with others: Left to
Defense attorney David Yannetti ’89 o
“I don’t think my personal view was relevant…. Th
The CIVIL PROCEDURE TWINS FOR GENERATIONS OF BC
FONDLY CALLED THE “CIVIL PROCEDURE TWINS,” PRO- F
England School of Law. In what Brodin considers a
Bloom also served as a mentor to students.
BOB BLOOM, WHO DESCRIBED CIVIL PROCEDURE AS “NOT
How BC Law is helping redefine incarceration, reen
Gunfire exploded from an assault- style weapon, sp
DC Reentry Network, a coalition of nonprofits
The people [incarceration] hits hardest are those
“Boston College, both the law school and the coll
GENERATIONS 36 CLASS NOTES 37 SPOTLIGHTS John Doh
Written and edited by Timothy Karcz Class Notes
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16 Nirav Bh
ESQUIRE Alumni News Wright described his
interviewed for the deputy counsel position. He d
ESQUIRE Click COMMENCEMENT 2026 Commencemen
Summer 2026 BC LAW MAGAZINE 45
ESQUIRE Raising the Bar “Rece
“One decision, one act of generosity, one moment
In Closing Social Media Reimagi
Paying it forward. Paying you back. Invest in a
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