Abolishing the FDIC
Abolishing the FDIC could backfire on Trump and his allies. Professor Pat McCoy explains how this presents an enormous risk of terrifying Americans about the safety of their deposits and triggering bank runs.
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Explaining Constitutional Culture
Monan Professor Aziz Rana's newest book The Constitutional Bind (University of Chicago Press), on the loss of the Constitution's quasi-mythical status in American political culture, is called a "masterpiece."
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Professors Join Global Pilot Project
Cathleen Kaveny and Katharine Young are representing Boston College Law School as members of a new international and multi-university pilot project on Global Ethics and Social Trust.
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'Female Genius'
Founders Professor Mary Sarah Bilder was awarded the inaugural Faculty Prize for Scholarship, which recognizes Bilder's contributions to female history and the scholarly excellence of her book on Eliza Harriot.
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NUCLEAR ENERGY REVISITED
Professor Daniel Lyons makes the case that the US needs to reverse course and invest their resources in the nuclear revolution in order to reduce our carbon footprint.
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Fulbright to Uzbekistan
Associate Professor E. Joan Blum's Fulbright Teaching/Research grant will allow her to teach academic legal writing and conduct a case study of publication practices at Tashkent State University of Law in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
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