4/16/02--Boston College Law School is pleased to welcome Michael Dukakis on campus for a lecture scheduled for April 22, 2002. The lecture will occur in the East Wing, room 115, at 3:00 p.m. A reception will follow.

"We are delighted to have Governor Dukakis here at Boston College Law School," said BC Law Dean John Garvey. "He is someone uniquely well qualified to explain the world of public affairs to an academic audience. He was himself a dedicated public servant whose colleagues in the National Governors' Association voted him the nation's most effective governor in 1986. For the past 11 years he has taught at Northeastern University, Florida Atlantic University, and the Kennedy School of Government."

Michael Dukakis Scholarship and Activities:

Selected Publications:
* How to Get into Politics-and Why: A Reader. Boston, MA: Great Source Education Group, 2000 (with Paul Simon)
* "The Governors and Health Policymaking" in Hackney and Rochefort, The New Politics of State Health Policy (2001)
* "The Problem is Not the Phone Calls: It's the Special Interest Money." Journal of Legislation 24:2 (1998)
* "A Governor Looks at Purchase of Service" in Margaret Gibelman and Harold W. Demone, Jr., Private Solutions to Public Problems. Springer Publishing Company, 1996
* "Improving the Electoral Process: A Summary of Issues and Some Recommended Proposals" in Improving the Electoral Process, National Conference on Improving the Electoral Process, Northeastern University,1995
* "Health Care Reform: Blueprints for Progress from the States." Compensation and Benefits Management 9:2 (Spring 1993)
* "Learning from the Aloha State." Journal of American Health Policy 2:1 (1992)
* "The States and Health Care Reform." New England Journal of Medicine (8 October 1992)

Selected Professional Activities:
* Democratic Party Nominee for President of the United States, 1988
* Governor of Massachusetts, 1975-1979, 1983-1991
* Voted Most Effective Governor in U.S., National Governor's Association, 1986
* Vice-Chair, Amtrak Reform Board
* Visiting Professor, UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research