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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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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a nascent technology that threatens great harm while simultaneously promising significant benefits. Although AI possesses incredible capabilities to solve problems and complete tasks, it also poses two major threats: technological dislocation and existentia...

The role of third-party funding (TPF) in international investment arbitration is a recent and growing phenomenon. However, given a lack of disclosure and transparency, it is exceedingly difficult to know its prevalence or the terms by which it is provided to claimants. While TPF in investor-State di...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal agency that manages the world’s largest civil immigration detention system, transfers hundreds of detained noncitizens to different detention centers every day at its sole discretion and for any reason, typically without advising the noncit...

In 2021, in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, the United States Supreme Court reshaped the importance of exclusion rights by deeming such rights to be the critical aspect of private property ownership. Consequently, the Court determined that any infringement upon this core exclusion right must automati...