Who is Lawrence Boyle and what’s he got against Bristol County?

And even more to the point, what’s he got against the state of Massachusetts running an affordable public law school? Boyle, in case you’ve never heard of him, is a Milton lawyer and a graduate of both Suffolk University and UMass Boston. He’s sat on the five campus university system’s board of trustees since 2002.

Almost the entire time he’s been a trustee, Boyle has had bad heartburn about the prospect of the university opening a state law school at UMass Dartmouth.

He most recently railed about the law school proposal a couple of weeks ago when the UMass trustees’ Academic Affairs Committee met to debate a formal proposal on the idea. The university is not supposed to be about economic development, he intoned.

He was very serious.

“Our function is what’s the best for UMass from an overall standpoint,” he is quoted saying in a State House News Service story. Any concerns about Bristol County in that mission are incidental, he explained.

Given the current fiscal crisis, Boyle went on to very seriously say that the university has more pressing needs than a law school — like rebuilding the parking garage at UMass Boston.

[South Coast Today]

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