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

The World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge (GRATK) was passed in May 2024 to establish a mandatory patent disclosure requirement for inventions that are based on genetic resources and/or associated traditional knowledge. This Article assesses whether the United States should ratify it. By grounding the challenges of Native intellectual property (IP) interests within the historical context of the American IP system, this Article argues that ratifying the GRATK Treaty is necessary to support Native IP rights. Although the Treaty’s provisions alone may not fully protect tribal sovereignty, its ratification, combined with the adoption of sui generis IP laws, would mark an essential step toward recognizing and compensating tribal contributions to innovation.

Intellectual Property and Technology Forum

Protecting Native Knowledge Systems? Implementing WIPO’s GRATK Treaty

This conversation occurred at the start of the conference on “Women at Work” on Friday, October 25, 2024, 9:00 to 9:30 a.m. What follows is the conversation with Renee Jones, edited for clarity.

Interview of Renee Jones by June Carbone

This article proposes that the concept and language of coercive control provides helpful ways to describe, frame, and mediate the tactics used by the Family Regulation System to control and regulate families. This work enters current conversations about the Family Regulation System and makes two important interventions. First, much of the way scholars and activists define the harm they see and preface their calls for reform or abolition is based on an analysis of the social and political injustices perpetuated by a system designed to privilege class, ableism, whiteness, and heteronormative living arrangements. The analysis, then, is one that considers how the Family Regulation System imposes itself on a class or community of people—most notably communities of Black and brown families—and is part of the web of systemic subordinating forces. This project aims to enter the conversation at an additional tack, engaging critiques of institutions and systems but also moving to the individual and the interpersonal to define the ways in which the Family Regulation System harms the families it serves.

Secondly, this project posits that the Family Regulation System, as designed and as operationalized, is an abuser. The Family Regulation System shares elements of the patriarchal scaffolding that invites violence in relationships; more specifically, the particularized regime of dominance and subordination known as coercive control in the domestic violence field is evident in the relationships created by the Family Regulation System. The concept of coercive control is one that arises from the study of, and advocacy against, domestic violence, and much of the concept is situated in feminist scholarship about the sociology of abuse generally. When social scientists and advocates first identified and fully articulated the concept of coercive control in the domestic violence arena, it led to important responses that helped the targets of coercively controlled relationships. Further, the language and naming in and of itself proved to be empowering to targets of coercive control who felt seen and understood. The hope herein is that clarifying the normative claim that the Family Regulation System is coercive, with precision about the means and mechanisms of that abuse, will be similarly liberating for families ensnared in the Family Regulation System while also supporting calls for reform that serve to dismantle, or at least diminish, the brutal power hierarchy between families and agents of the Family Regulation System.

State as Abuser

Mark S. Brodin traces the history of Section Three and its virtual disappearance from the Constitution following the Court's decision in Trump v. Anderson. The Article discusses the leadup to Anderson, highlighting the events of January 6th, the eventual case brought in Colorado, and the ultimate decision of the Colorado Supreme Court. Professor Brodin then spotlights the consequences of the Anderson decision, both present and future.

The Supreme Court's Rewriting of the Fourteenth Amendment Disqualification Clause: Trump v. Anderson and the Greenlighting of Insurrection

This book answers many questions for those tasked with deciding whether and how to fund a law school clinic. It also provides metrics by which to evaluate the operations of a clinic. And finally, this book addresses not just how best to run a clinic, but in many ways how best to deliver legal services to a community in great need of legal help, whether through a law school program or in the neighborhood. It answers questions every legal aid office in the world with limited resources must answer: how to choose clients, how to decide which services the clients will receive, and from whom, and how to deliver those legal services.

This review essay will proceed as follows. It explores the major themes of each chapter, and how these ideas may be useful to a wide audience. The review attempts to guide its reader to those chapters that will be most helpful for those who do not have time to read everything, and it suggests avenues to explore ideas further.

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Protecting Native Knowledge Systems? Implementing WIPO’s GRATK Treaty

Interview of Renee Jones by June Carbone

State as Abuser

The Supreme Court's Rewriting of the Fourteenth Amendment Disqualification Clause: Trump v. Anderson and the Greenlighting of Insurrection

Book Review: How to Set Up and Run a Law Clinic by Donald Nicolson et al.

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