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BU Law students attend classes in this iconic high-rise building on Commonwealth Avenue.
What is the Law Tower?
BU Law students often gather in this large area in the Law Tower, a common study and social space.
What is the Atrium?
This term means “the party who brings a lawsuit.”
What is the plaintiff?
This annual April event draws runners and many BU students as spectators and passes through Boston neighborhoods.
What is the Boston Marathon?
The Class of 2028 is broken into this number of sections, which is two more than previous classes were divided into.
What is 5?
Boston University’s school colors are this combination.
What are scarlet and white?
An amazing and supportive resource for students, she is the Associate Director of Equity, Inclusion, & Engagement in the law tower.
Who is Amber Woods?
The written legal argument submitted to a court, often summarizing facts and law.
What is a brief?
The first state to legalize gay marriage in 2004, setting the stage for the landmark Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges.
What is Massachusetts?
The name of the T stop on the green line that is closest to the law tower.
What is BU Central?
The mascot of Boston University, often seen at athletic events and Law School functions, is known as this.
Who is Rhett the Terrier?
This is the name of BU Law’s main library, housing thousands of legal texts and research materials.
What is the Fineman & Pappas Law Library?
The meaning of the abbreviation “IRAC,” a technique commonly used by 1Ls to read and understand their cases.
What is Issue, Rule, Analysis, Conclusion?
Admission to these three art museums is free with a BU ID.
What are: the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Institute of Contemporary Art?
The six doctrinal classes that you have to take during your first year of law school.
What are Torts, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, and Property Law?
This civil rights leader earned his doctorate in systematic theology from Boston University in 1955.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
These rooms are the two main event spaces in the tower, located on the first and fifth floors, respectively.
What are Barristers Hall and the Charles River Room?
The meaning of the legal phrase, “let the decision stand,” which requires courts to follow prior decisions in similar cases.
What is stare decisis?
The current Attorney General of Massachusetts made history in 2022 by becoming the first Black woman to be elected to this statewide office.
Who is Andrea Campbell?
The most commonly used online legal research databases in law schools.
What are Westlaw and LexisNexis?
This popular BU student hangout, located in the West Campus neighborhood, is known for its casual food, drinks, and lively social scene.
What is the BU Pub?
The floor that is not accessible from the elevator bank in the atrium.
What is the third floor? (Only available from the other elevator bank.)
A standard in which an ordinary, prudent person who normally exercises due care while avoiding extremes of both audacity and caution.
What is a reasonable person?
This Boston street festival celebrates Caribbean culture, including music, dance, and food from the African diaspora.
What is the Boston Caribbean Festival / Boston Carnival?
The number of affinity organizations that are active on campus (and which carry yearly programming on their back!).
What is 14?