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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...
Begun as part of the Black History at BC Law project, this collection seeks to document the history of Black BC Law students and alumni, particularly highlighting events held by the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) and Black Alumni Network (BAN). The photos below come from a variety of sourc...
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View all additionsCarbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms (CBAMs), deployed in the service of national and potentially multilateral climate policy, are having a moment on the international stage. CBAMs are potentially among the more effective policy mechanisms to combat climate disruption, harnessing the power of virtual...
The current Supreme Court is expanding two lines of doctrine. The first insists on formal equality over substantive equality when it comes to questions of race, resulting most recently in the Harvard ruling striking down the use of race as a criterion in university admissions decisions. The second l...
Institutions of higher education in the United States have enjoyed a broad tax exemption for hundreds of years. In 2017, however, Congress imposed an excise tax on certain colleges’ and universities’ endowment revenue as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Act). The endowment excise tax is not schedu...
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, the loss of reproductive freedom was not the only health care crisis created by the Court. Across the country, people with chronic conditions, including autoimmune disease, were unable to access their prescription medication after abortion bans ...
In 1946, the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) waived what was once absolute: federal sovereign immunity for government-caused torts. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court’s Feres doctrine declines to extend the FTCA’s immunity waiver to certain tort claims of military service members. The doctrine precludes...