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The Alledger

Beginning 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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Trade is a species of exchange rooted in a rich experience of encounter, opportunity, risk, and inequalities of power. All of this enters into the relationship between trade, defined here—following Berge—as the free circulation of goods, and questions of meaning and value (our subject today). In my ...

International courts play a key role in the attainment of global social justice objectives. The core contributions of international adjudication to global social justice are, not surprisingly, in line with the core functions of adjudication: the enforcement of substantive rights in a setting of fair...

The future of the world economic order is unclear, and dissatisfaction with the Bretton Woods institutions, the multilateral trading system, and, more generally, with global economic governance is at an all-time high. How did we get here and what should a program of global economic ordering fit for ...

This Note explores the issue of access to adequate education by examining the liberty rights of students at chronically underperforming public schools. The issue was previously considered by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2020, in Gary B. v. Whitmer. After delineating positive and negative ri...