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 members, profiles of candidates for leadership positions in student government, and previews of lectures given by noteworthy speakers.

The publication consistently poked fun at the law student experience, making professors and classmates alike the targets of good-natured parody. The Alledger featured an annual April Fool’s Day issue which consisted entirely of satirical articles.

The Alledger is a record of the school’s history, offering evidence of an increasingly competitive environment for law schools in the form of extensive coverage of a 1995 dispute related to the U.S. News and World Report law school rankings. The newspaper also recorded changes in the demographics of the student body, as well as frequent discussion of tuition increases and the financial relationship of the law school to the university. Moreover, the humorous and frank tone of The Alledger provides real insight into the lives of law students in the 1980s and 1990s.

The Alledger was digitized from the collection of the Boston College Law School Library. Issues missing from this collection are not owned by the law library; due to frequent inconsistencies in the numbering of issues, the law library is not sure how many issues are missing from this collection.

The Alledger

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 addition to articles written by outside academics, the Review prints the work of its student staff, many of whom publish notes during their third year. The Review’s second-year staff members also prepare short comments on recent federal circuit court decisions, which may be published in the Review's Electronic Supplement.

Visit the Boston College Law Review website at <a href="http://bclawreview.bc.edu">bclawreview.bc.edu</a>.


Boston College Law Review

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 time serving as a valuable institutional record.

Boston College Law School Faculty Papers

Begun as part of the <a href="https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/schools/law/sites/bclaw-black-history/gallery.html">Black History at BC Law</a> 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 sources, including the BC Law Library and BC Law Magazine archives and the personal collections of multiple community members. We welcome additions to this collection, as well as assistance naming any unidentified individuals in these images. Please reach out to <a href="mailto:lawpubs@bc.edu">lawpubs@bc.edu</a> with any questions or contributions related to this archive.

BLSA and BAN Photo Archive

Under the Ryan Haight Act (RHA), the federal government has tightly restricted the prescription of controlled substances through telemedicine. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, however, which led millions to rely on telemedicine, lawmakers have introduced and renewed waivers to these restrictions to ensure continued access to treatment. By relaxing enforcement, those waivers have inadvertently spawned a resurgence in the unlawful activities that the RHA aimed to prevent. This Article proposes that special registration, a reliable process allowing legitimate providers to apply for the ability to prescribe virtually, is a better alternative to renewing the waivers, as it preserves telemedicine while maintaining security.

Intellectual Property and Technology Forum

Waivers to the Ryan Haight Act and the Future of Telemedicine

Exhibition 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 Library. Others were library acquisitions: to continue building our working lawyer’s library; to inspire scholarship; to provide engaging materials for class visits, so that students can continually engage with the historical literature of their profession.

Rare Book Room Exhibition Programs

Recent Additions to the Collection

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” (CITs) are rapidly replacing mutual funds on the investment menus of employer-sponsored retirement plans. Individuals who once had staked their retirement nest eggs on the returns from mutual funds have had more and more of their savings transferred into bank-sponsored CITs, which now hold nearly thirty percent of all assets in defined-contribution plans, up from just thirteen percent a decade ago. Legislation to expand access to CITs is currently pending in Congress. Yet despite such dramatic growth and economic significance, CITs—which look and act a lot like mutual funds but are sponsored by banks and subject to oversight by the Comptroller of the Currency—have been largely overlooked, with almost no critical analysis of CITs as investment funds, as institutional investors, and as increasingly important participants in an interconnected financial system. 

This Essay tells the story of a century-old bank product seizing on regulatory gaps and exploding in popularity among retirement plans seeking cheaper investment options for individual participants. The dramatic growth of CITs raises new and critical questions about the tradeoffs associated with CITs: in particular, the benefits of lower fees versus the individual and systemic risks that may stem from lower transparency, fragmented regulatory oversight, fewer restrictions on permitted investments, and centralized control in the hands of bank trustees. In identifying these tradeoffs, this Essay shines a light on the policy implications for retirement savers and builds the foundation for future scholarship to improve our understanding of this behemoth investment vehicle, whose growth and impact have gone largely unexamined over the last four decades.

Overtaking Mutual Funds: The Hidden Rise and Risk of Collective Investment Trusts

Prosecutors must investigate and disclose exculpatory evidence, including existing and potential misconduct within a police department, to people accused of crimes. Failing to provide such evidence is a leading cause of wrongful convictions and disproportionately harms Black people and people of color. Because prosecutors and police officers work closely together and rely on each other, cognitive bias can operate to prevent prosecutors from clearly seeing whether evidence may be exculpatory and cause them to minimize evidence of potential misconduct. Where prosecutors have systemically failed to fulfill their obligations, this Court must exercise its superintendence powers to ensure that people presumed innocent have access to all evidence to which they are entitled. 

A DOJ investigation revealed a pattern or practice of misconduct, including excessive force and falsification of reports, within the Narcotics Bureau of the SPD. However, rather than representing the results of a completed investigation, the DOJ report was only a starting point, and was, by its own terms, limited. The DOJ investigation triggered the HCDAO’s obligation to investigate and disclose exculpatory evidence. This burden is on the Commonwealth and cannot be delegated to defense counsel. To prevent and correct wrongful convictions, this Court must affirm the prosecutor’s duty to investigate and disclose misconduct and provide clear guidance in circumstances where prosecutors assert an inability to comply with their obligations. 

Brief of Amicus Curiae, Graham et al. v. District Attorney for Hampden County

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’s identification of the defendant was produced by highly suggestive procedures and should not have been presented to the jury, (2) expert testimony concerning eyewitness identifications constitutes newly discovered evidence that would have been a real factor in the jury's deliberations, (3) the Commonwealth failed to produce exculpatory evidence in its possession, namely, an affidavit by a key witness recanting his testimony, evidence of misconduct by a police witness, and other notes and records in the possession of the Boston police department. 

This amici brief addresses the first and second parts of this question.

Brief of Amicus Curiae, Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Raymond Gaines

<b>Standing/Back row</b>: Staniel Brutus '26, Joshua Williams '26, Justin Martin '27, Jackson Canady '27, Mitchord Cope-Hobbs '27, Ervin Williams, Jr. '27, Hon. Leslie Harris '84, Damon Hart '99, Shawn McShay, Asst. Dean, Admissions

<b>Front row</b>: Cusaj Thomas '19 , Brian Leon '27, Fax Victor '25, Francis Lubega '26.

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Brief of Amicus Curiae, Graham et al. v. District Attorney for Hampden County

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