GREATER BOSTON

DEBATE SERIES

hosted by the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy at Boston College Law School and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Mission

The goal is to provide space for productive, deep, and sometimes messy, dialogues about how to affect change on issues such as criminal justice reform, transportation, housing, education, and more.

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Past Debate

Uber/Lyft: Employee v. Independent Contractor?

Join us on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, for a debate between Shannon Liss-Riordan, Partner, Lichten & Liss-Riordan, and Conor Yunits, Executive Vice President, Issues Management Group, moderated by Katie Johnston, Reporter, The Boston Globe, on the issue of whether Uber/Lyft drivers should be employees or independent contractors. Watch here.


Rappaport Launches Debate Series

Boston College Law and Harvard team up to present first dialogue on qualified immunity for police.

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