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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...
Recent Additions
View all additionsExhibition program from a Spring 2025 exhibit presented in the Daniel R. Coquillette Rare Book Room at the Boston College Law Library. Every few years, we take the opportunity to feature some recent additions to the Rare Book Room collection. Some items featured were donated by friends of the Law Li...
The retirement security of millions of American workers is increasingly tied to an investment vehicle that most have never even heard of, and whose dramatic rise has received almost no regulatory scrutiny in recent decades. With nearly seven trillion dollars in assets, “collective investment trusts”...
This Court solicited amicus briefs on the following question: Where the defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree and armed robbery in 1976, whether the motion judge properly allowed his motion for a new trial on the grounds that (1) newly discovered evidence shows that an eyewitness...
In 2016, President Obama signed into law the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act (HEAR Act) which expanded the opportunities for survivors of Nazi persecution, and their heirs, to recover art that was looted by the Nazis. The HEAR Act allows such individuals to bring a claim within six years of ...