[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 63 (Wednesday, April 29, 2015)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E613]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                HONORING DEAN JOHN CHARLES (JACK) BOGER

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                          HON. DAVID E. PRICE

                           of north carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, April 29, 2015

  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Dean 
Jack Boger, the 13th Dean of the University of North Carolina School of 
Law, who will step down in June after nine years as Dean.
   Dean Boger is a native of Concord, North Carolina and a graduate of 
Duke University, Yale University, and the UNC School of Law. After 
completing law school at UNC in 1974, he clerked with the Honorable 
Samuel Silverman of the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division and 
practiced for three years in the litigation department of Paul, Weiss, 
Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City.
   In 1978, Boger joined the staff of the NAACP Legal Defense and 
Educational Fund, where he litigated capital punishment cases for a 
decade, becoming the director of the Fund's Capital Punishment Project 
in 1983 and a new poverty and justice program in 1987.
   Boger became a member of the UNC School of Law faculty in 1990, 
going on to teach courses in constitutional law, education law, racial 
discrimination, and poverty law. In 2002, he became Deputy Director of 
the UNC Center for Civil Rights, working with Director Julius L. 
Chambers to encourage innovative civil rights research, train a new 
generation of civil rights attorneys, and address pressing civil rights 
issues in North Carolina and throughout the Southeast. In addition to 
his service at UNC, he has taught as a lecturer or adjunct professor at 
Harvard, New York Law School, and Florida State University.
   In 2006, Boger became the UNC School of Law's 13th dean. His 
deanship has provided a steady hand and a strategic vision for the 
school during one of the more trying times in the history of legal 
education.
   Dean Boger recently wrote that he has always understood the real 
meaning of the ``Carolina Way'' to be the unfaltering faith that light 
and truth, set free without fear or favor in a university setting, will 
eventually provide keys to meeting the deepest human needs. During his 
time as Dean, he has exemplified this understanding of the ``Carolina 
Way'' as well as the motto of the University of North Carolina: Esse 
Quam Videri, to be rather than to seem.
   Thank you, Dean Boger, for your service as Dean of the University of 
North Carolina School of Law. On behalf of my colleagues in North 
Carolina's congressional delegation, I wish you good luck and Godspeed 
in all your future endeavors.

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