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View all collectionsBeginning in 1981 and continuing into the mid-1990s, The Alledger was the student newspaper of the Boston College Law School. The Alledger published both serious and satirical articles on topics related to student life at the law school. Frequent topics include the arrival and departure of faculty m...
Boston College Law Review is Boston College Law School's flagship scholarly publication. The Review, ranked in the top 25 law journals by Washington & Lee, publishes eight issues each year featuring articles and essays by prominent authors addressing legal issues of national interest. In addit...
Boston College Law Library collects the publications of Law School faculty, and, when possible, makes them available through this collection. Organized by year and tagged with authors and subject areas, this resource reflects the school and the library’s commitment to open access while at the same t...
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View all additionsThis Article discusses how as institutional investors like BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street have accumulated ever larger stakes in U.S. public companies, their voting behavior has come under increasing scrutiny. Scholarship analyzing voting by institutional investors—and particularly mutual fun...
Of the initial share subscribers in September 1793, only one woman, Elizabeth Quincy Guild, a widow, appears on the role of shareholders. Her four shares, purchased for $8, represent less than 1% of the outstanding shares. Her name on the list of investors in this high-risk project is appears anomal...
The topic of this Article is the little understood and seldom invoked Rule of Professional Conduct 5.1, and how that disciplinary rule can be more aggressively enforced to detect and deter prosecutorial misconduct. The notion that supervisory attorneys must be more actively involved in their colleag...
According to the doctrine of transnational constitutional norms, transnational norms are the subset of peremptory (ius strictum) constitutional norms that are constitutive of the democratic form of government. That is the criterion for immunizing constitutional norms from constitutional deselection,...