This series features alumni leaders in politics interviewed by Boston College Law Professor Kent Greenfield.

Law, Government, and Politics

Conversations@BCLaw with Congressman Michael Capuano

This series features alumni leaders in politics interviewed by Boston College Law Professor Kent Greenfield. Michael Capuano is serving his eighth term as a U.S. Representative for Massachusetts' 7th congressional district, which includes Chelsea, Everett, Randolph, Somerville, half of Cambridge and Milton, and approximately 75 percent of Boston. He is the senior Massachusetts member on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Financial Services Committee. He was named to the House Ethics Committee in 2013.

Richard Garnett is the associate dean for faculty research and a professor of law and political science at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of dozens of scholarly articles and book chapters, and comments regularly in print and broadcast media on legal matters.

Institutional Religious Freedom

Glenn Carle served for 23 years in the CIA, where his last position was deputy national intelligence officer for transnational threats of the National Intelligence Council. He is author of The Interrogator: An Education (2011).

Update on the 'War on Terror': Facts and Fears

Sean Wilentz, the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University, delivers the second-day keynote address at the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy's conference, titled “The 2012 Election in Comparative and Historical Perspective.”

Still the 'Age of Reagan'?

Jeremy Waldron, the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, University of Oxford, and University Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, delivers the inaugural Clough Distinguished Lecture in Jurisprudence. He is the author of Torture, Terror, and Trade-offs: Philosophy for the White House (2010); God, Locke, and Equality: Christian Foundations of Lockeâ€™s Political Thought (2003); and The Right to Private Property (1988).

The Separation of Powers in Thought and Practice

Daniel Kanstroom, professor of law and director of the International Human Rights Program at Boston College, and Mary Waters, the M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, discuss the deportation system in the United States and Kanstroom's recently published book, Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora.

Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora

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