A Wild Ride
In Rappaport Center event, Deputy General Counsel for the Biden Campaign reflects on the unusual election.
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POLICE REFORM IN MASSACHUSETTS
On February 2, 2021, the Rappaport Center hosted a virtual webinar titled “Police Reform in Massachusetts: Next Steps.” The esteemed panelists provided an expansive view of what has been done both federally and within the Commonwealth on the hot-button issue of police reform. The program featured Massachusetts State Representative Carlos González; Executive Director of Lawyers for Civil Rights Iván Espinoza-Madrigal; Chelsea Chief of Police Brian Kyes; Senior Counsel of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Ajmel Quereshi; and moderated by Tanisha Sullivan, President of NAACP | Boston.
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Rappaport Distinguished Visiting professor richard cordray
Richard Cordray, the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and a former Ohio Attorney General, was the Jerome Lyle Rappaport Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law and Public Policy for the 2020 Fall term. He taught a seminar on consumer finance law and federalism, presented a community lecture, and participated in classes and panel discussions—all remotely—throughout the semester. Cordray recently joined the Biden Administration’s U.S. Department of Education as Chief Operating Officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid overseeing the federal government’s $1.6 trillion student loans and financial aid programs.
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2021 rappaport Fellows
Meet the 2021 Rappaport Center Law and Public Policy cohort of Fellows, law students who are passionate and committed to bettering communities in diverse areas, including education, access to justice, racial equality, housing, public health, and more.
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Greater boston debate series
Recognizing that communities consist of diverse residents with diverse perspectives, the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy at Boston College Law School and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston at Harvard Kennedy School launched an annual debate series to explore how problems and solutions must be addressed in a multi-dimensional way. The goal is to provide space for productive, deep, and sometimes messy, dialogues about affecting change on issues such as criminal justice reform, transportation, housing, education, and more.
The Rappaport Center Blog
Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu and the Truth of “Pie-in-the-Sky” Ideas
By Jessica Rahmoune Rappaport Law and Public Policy Alumna Fellow and current City Councilor Michelle Wu is a household name here in Boston. A graduate of Harvard College and ...
August 13, 2021
And To Think that We Saw It on Washington Street
By Brendan Kelly “Just do it.” The slogan made famous by Nike over the past three decades is one Bill Walczak has been living far longer than that. Dropping out of Boston Univ...
July 26, 2021
“The job is never done:” Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone on his 9-Term Legacy
by Ryan Kenney Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone once stressed in a community address that “the hardest thing to do in government is to achieve long-term challenges and goals....
July 13, 2021