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BOSTON COLLEGE
LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE
SUMMER 2021
BC.EDU/BCLAWMAGAZINE
PLUS
GREAT CASE
Lost
Treasure
Nicholas
O’Donnell ’03
Fights for Nazi-
Looted Art
JUSTICE
Day of
Reckoning
BC Law Takes
on Systemic
Racism’s
Environmental
Harms
THE ACADEMY
Change at
the Top
Celebrating
Dean Rougeau’s
Remarkable
Decade
VOICE FOR TOMORROW
What Is Leadership, Really?
When a student like Chinyere Okogeri ’21
began making her way through law school
and got out in front of issues, organized classmates,
and inspired change in many directions,
her community took notice.
BC Law Magazine
UNDER HER
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BC Law Magazine UNDER HER INFLUENCE
Features 16 Transforming Lives Celebrating the ca
IN LIMINE Foremost Our Place— The Moral High
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BEHIND THE COLUMNS Foremost
Campus News and Events of Note IN BRIEF 6 FACULTY
DOCKET In Brief
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SEC Taps Jones for Directorship Professor to serv
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1234 analyst. It was a grunt job, but because
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“I see my role as an advocate whos
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