Absent From the Convention: Libraries, Law and Political Philosophy: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

Presentation by Professor Mary Sarah Bilder, as commentator, at the conference "John Adams & Thomas Jefferson: Libraries, Leadership & Legacy," held in Boston and Charlottesville, June 21-17, 2009.

The Snail Darter, The Tellico Dam, and Sustainable Democracy — Lessons for the Next President From a Classic Environmental Law Controversy.

This presentation was the product of an invitation to speak at a symposium for students and faculty from a variety of different non-law departments at the University of Tennessee, where in 1973 I had started what became a six-year legal campaign to divert the Tennessee Valley Authority from impounding the last flowing 33 miles of the Little Tennessee River behind TVA’s Tellico Dam.

Boston College Law School 75th Celebration Event Salutes J. Donald Monan, S.J., Chancellor of Boston College

On September 13, 2005, in front of a standing-room only crowd of students and faculty, J. Donald Monan, S.J., accepted the Boston College Law School's 75th anniversary Distinguished Service Award from Dean John Garvey for more than thirty years of dedication to the school. Currently Chancellor of Boston College, a position he acquired in 1996, Monan holds the distinction of having been Boston College president for 24 years, the longest tenure in school history.

BC Law Magazine Spring/Summer 2005

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BC Law Magazine Fall/Winter 2005

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