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Law & Humanities Blog
Wieboldt on Ken Kersch and the New Legal History
By christinecorcoslawlit-blogspot-com
Dennis J. Wieboldt, III, has published Ken Kersch and the New Legal History: Beyond the Internalist/Externalist Divide at 4 J. Am. Const. Hist. 27 (2026). The death of Kenneth Ira…
Legal History Blog
A Symposium in Honor of Ken Kersch
By Dan Ernst
[We have the following announcement from Boston College’s Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy. DRE]Constructing the Constitutional Imagination: A Symposium in Honor of Ken I. KerschOn February 20,…
Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
Using Interlocutory Appeals to Reduce the Scope and Cost of ERISA Class Action Litigation
One of the themes I have returned to time and again with regard to excessive fee and other class action litigation under ERISA is that the traditional litigation approach deployed…
Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
Horse Races, Judges and Summary Judgment: Further Thoughts on Sellers v. Boston College
Growing up in Baltimore in the Seventies (you can take the boy out of Baltimore but you can’t take the Orioles out of the boy – go Birds!), I developed…
Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
Summary Judgment Proceedings in Breach of Fiduciary Duty Litigation: The Lessons of Sellers v. Boston College
I suspect every client I have ever represented in litigation can testify that I am overly fond of the old saying if you have the facts, argue the facts; if…
Health Law Prof Blog
Retirement Plan Reforms in the Absence of a Retirement Policy
Natalya Shnitser (Boston College), Retirement Plan Reforms in the Absence of a Retirement Policy, B.C.L.Sch. Legal Stud. Working Paper No. 602 (2022): The US retirement system is currently characterized by tremendous…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
What to Worry About: How Well do Retirees assess the risks they face in Retirement?
Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research recently published a study that explores perceived risks to retirement in America versus what the actual risks are. The study found that the largest risk…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Shnitser: Professional Employer Organizations & Workplace Benefits
Natalya Shnitser (Boston College) has just posted on SSRN her article "Professional" Employers and the Transformation of Workplace Benefits (39 Yale Journal on Regulation Bulletin 99 (2021)). Here's the abstract:Workers…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Bisom-Rapp on Myth-Busting
Hot off the SSRN presses is Susan Bisom-Rapp's trenchant article, The Role of Law and Myth in Creating a Workplace that "Looks Like America." It deals efficiently and perceptively with…
Simple Justice
The First Circuit’s Shifting View of “Fairness”
In the case argued before the First Circuit by Harvard prawf Jeannie Suk Gerson, after much inexplicable melodrama, the sole issue before the court was whether to reverse a temporary…