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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 additionsSince Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile barrier in the mid-1950s, the American public has become increasingly obsessed with achieving the impossible. In 2016, the U.S. Patent Office approved Nike’s ground-breaking and controversial patent on its first of many “super shoes,” the Vaporfly, a ...
How the law contributes to economic inequality is the subject of renewed attention, but the legal dimensions of geographic inequality have received much less scrutiny. At its core, geographic inequality is a function of how the national income gets spatially divided between capital and labor. Wh...
This Note advocates for congressional and state action to remedy the Supreme Court’s flawed 2022 decision in Ruan v. United States. This approach includes a modified return to the objective good faith defense established by the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 (CSA) and United States v. Moore, the ...
AbstractIn 2022, in Vega v. Tekoh, the U.S. Supreme Court held that individuals interrogated without knowledge of their Miranda rights cannot seek remedy under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The Supreme Court’s rationale for this decision was that the right provided in the 1966 Miranda v. Arizona decision, which...