Events

A conversation on race and policing

(left to right) Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Senior Opinion Writer and Columnist, The Boston Globe; former Trial and Appellate Attorney; 2024 Rappaport Senior Fellow; former SJC Associate Justice Elspeth Cypher, Boston College Law Huber Distinguished Visiting Professor; and William G. Brooks III, Chief of Police, Norwood Police Department

Academic Year Programming

The Rappaport Distinguished Public Policy Series stimulates discussions around crucial issues of public policy today. The Rappaport Center organizes lectures, roundtable discussions, and conferences that attract some of the most influential scholars, lawyers, students, policymakers, and government officials. 

Each semester, the Rappaport Center provides high-profile lectures and public policy roundtable conversations on pressing issues facing our municipalities. The Center continues to focus on equity/inequity and equality/inequality, critical themes necessary for all discussions involving law and public policy.

2016 Rappaport Distinguished Lecturer Donald Verrilli

(left to right) James Tierney, former Maine Attorney General; Andrea Joy Campbell, Attorney General of Massachusetts; Peter Neronha, Attorney General of Rhode Island; and Charity Clark, Attorney General of Vermont

On occasion, the Rappaport Center also hosts Distinguished Lecturers or Visiting Professors. The common goal of all programming is to foster open exchange of ideas and respectful discourse among government, business, non-profit and academic thought leaders, and to devise practical solutions to complex challenges.

Since going remote in the 2020 Spring term due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Center began the Rappaport Center Webinar Series.

2024-2025 Events