Submissions from 2021
The Racial Reckoning of Public Interest Law, Atinuke O. Adediran and Shaun Ossei-Owusu
Payments Failure, Hilary J. Allen
Judicial Review of Visa Petition Revocations: A “Precedential Cascade”, Nicole Arata
The Cost of Guilty Breach: Willful Breach in M&A Contracts, Theresa Arnold, Amanda Dixon, Madison Whalen Sherrill, Hadar Tanne, and Mitu Gulati
Uncertainty > Risk: Lessons for Legal Thought from the Insurance Runoff Market, Tom Baker
Sovereigns, Freemen, and Desperate Souls: Towards a Rigorous Understanding of Pseudolitigation Tactics in United States Courts, Samuel Barrows
Law in Time: Legal Theory and Legal History, Paulo D. Barrozo
Learning from Omar: The Case for Public Funding of Postconviction Innocence Defense, Sharon Beckman
Weaponizing the Office of Legal Counsel, Emily Berman
The Emerging Genre of The Constitution: Kent Newmyer and the Heroic Age, Mary Sarah Bilder
The Mind is Like a Bat: Bernard Bailyn and the Debate on the Constitution, Mary Sarah Bilder
Without Doors: Native Nations and the Convention, Mary Sarah Bilder
Rules and Standards in Justice Scalia's Fourth Amendment, Robert M. Bloom and Eliza S. Walker
Herding CATS: Building Student Engagement in Remote Learning in the U.S. and Uzbekistan, E. Joan Blum
Governing Nature: Bambi Law in a Wall-E World, Karrigan Bork
Hospice Care's Adventures in Fraudland: "Battle of the Experts" & Proving Falsity Under the False Claims Act, Elizabeth A. Caruso
The Elusive Zone of Twilight, Michael Coenen and Scott M. Sullivan
No Child Was Harmed in the Making of This Video: Morphed Child Pornography and the First Amendment, Taylor Comerford
Reply ‘Stop’ to Cancel: Whether Receiving One Unwanted Marketing Text Message Confers Standing in Federal Court, Curtis R. Crooke
Secrets, Secrets Are No Fun: Issues of Publication Under the FOIA Reading Room Provision, Kristen Daly
The Case Against Collective Liability, J. Shahar Dillbary
Schoolbooks and Shackles: The Undue Hardship Standard and Treatment of Student Debt at Bankruptcy, Matthew S. Farina
Statistically Speaking: Restrictive Changes to Fair Housing Act Disparate Impact Liability, Mitchell E. Feldman
The Expansive Scope of the Ministerial Exception After Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru, Allison R. Ferraris
The Eighth for Edmo: Access to Gender-Affirming Care in Prisons, John Ferraro
“But, I Didn’t Mean to Hurt You”: Why the First Amendment Does Not Require Intent-to-Harm Provisions in Criminal “Revenge Porn” Laws, Katherine G. Foley
Time Is Money, Ladies: The Ninth Circuit Prohibited Prior Pay as a Factor Other Than Sex in Rizo v. Yovino, Caroline M. Gelinne
To Fee or Not to Fee: The Availability of Attorney’s Fees in Declaratory Relief Actions for Copyright Abandonment Under the Copyright Act, Katherine Goetz
Corporate Personhood and the Putative First Amendment Right to Discriminate, Kent Greenfield and Daniel A. Rubens
Structural Labor Rights, Hiba Hafiz
Suicide in the Evidentiary Spotlight: An Analysis of the Trustworthiness of Suicide Notes Under the Federal Residual Exception, Jana J. Haikal
Under Fire: Evaluating As-Applied Challenges to Disarming the Involuntarily Committed, Zachary S. Halpern
Corporate and Securities Law Impact on Social Responsibility and Corporate Purpose, Thomas Lee Hazen
Taxing Cloud Computing Proves to Be Just That--Taxing, Emily A. Ivers
Blood Feud: Matheis and the Fight for Disability Rights, Evelyn L. A. Jackson
Beyond Plea Bargaining: A Theory of Criminal Settlement, Richard Lorren Jolly and J.J. Prescott
Sharing More Than You Thought: Facebook Cannot Assert the Party Exception to Avoid Liability Under the Wiretap Act, Emily A. Jordan
Digital Age Samaritans, Zachary D. Kaufman
Death by Denial: Pre-existing Conditions as a Bar to Accident Insurance Recovery, Madeleine M. Kausel
Chain, Chain, Chain—Chain of (Pharma) Fools: Why Third Party Payors Maintain the Proximate Causal Chain Under RICO § 1964(C), Sarah M. Kelley
Othering Across Borders, Steven Arrigg Koh
Information Bundling, Disclosure, and Judicial Deference to Market Valuations, Charles R. Korsmo
Leverage, Randy J. Kozel
A Corporate Law Rationale for Reparations, Susan S. Kuo and Benjamin Means
Consent, Informed: Rethinking Informed Consent & Competency for Patients with Schizophrenia & Anosognosia, Nina Labovich
The Economic Loss Doctrine & Data Breach Litigation: Applying the “Venerable Chestnut of Tort Law” in the Age of the Internet, Nicolas N. LaBranche
The True Benefit of the Bargain: How Emotional Distress Damages Make Fraud Victims Whole, Jonathan G. Lester
Substantially Mutated: Are Genetic Mutations “Disabilities” Under the Americans with Disabilities Act?, Jessica L. Loiacono
FCC Process Reforms Protect the Rule of Law, Daniel A. Lyons
Brief of Amici Curiae Scholars of the Law of Non-Profit Organizations in Support of Respondent: Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Matthew Rodriguez, Nos. 19-251 & 19-255, Ray D. Madoff, Ellen P. Aprill, Roger Colinvaux, Sean Delaney, James Fishman, Brian D. Galle, Philip Hackney, Jill R. Horwitz, Cindy Lott, Jill S. Manny, Nancy A. McLaughlin, and Richard Shmalbeck
The Williams Complaint and the Role of the Learning Environment in Education Adequacy: "You Count; Do Well", Abigail W. Mahoney
Climate Torts: It’s a Conspiracy!, Joseph Manning
Raising the Stakes for New Towns: State Tools to Curb Exclusionary Municipal Incorporation, Kadie Martin
Housing as a Right in the United States: Mitigating the Affordable Housing Crisis Using an International Human Rights Law Approach, Maria Massimo
Comment of Professor Patricia A. McCoy on Docket No. CFPB-2021-0006, Patricia McCoy
Pro Se Perils: The Eighth Circuit’s Approach to Sixth Amendment Challenges After Guilty Pleas, Rachael A. Minassian
The Challenges of Nonprofit Governance, Peter Molk and D. Daniel Sokol
Beyond Algorithms: Toward a Normative Theory of Automated Regulation, Felix Mormann
Dark Matter in the Law, D. Carolina Núñez
Are Sanctuary Cities Safe? Evaluating the DOJ’s Authority to Impose Immigration Conditions on Criminal Justice Grants, Heather Odell
“A Waiver of the Trial Itself”: The Constitutional Threats of Extending United States v. Mezzanatto and Contractual Solutions, Cherylann M. Pasha
Mergers, MACs, and COVID-19, Brian JM Quinn
Response to The Cost of Guilty Breach: What Work Is “Willful Breach” Doing?, Brian JM Quinn
License to Sublicense: The Legal Possibility of Impliedly Sublicensing a Copyrighted Work, Rohena Rajbhandari
Rejecting ‘Unjustified’ Rejection: Why Family Courts Should Exclude Parental Alienation Experts, Alyssa G. Rao
Putting the Person in PHOSITA: The Human’s Obvious Role in the Artificial Intelligence Era, Connor Romm
Consider the Caregivers: Reimagining Labor and Immigration Law to Benefit Home Care Workers and Their Clients, Abigail S. Rosenfeld
The Customer Is Always Right: Trademark Law and Generic Website Names in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B.V., Marina F. Rothberg
“You Just Need to Do It!”: When Texts Encouraging Suicide Do Not Warrant Free Speech Protection, Courtney E. Ruggeri
Entitlement-Shifting Rules, Troy A. Rule
Kissing the Security Blanket Goodbye: How the SECURE Act Will Affect IRA Beneficiaries’ Long-Term Financial Security, Cassidy J. Seamon
A (Solicited) Call for Clarity: The Definition of Automatic Telephone Dialing System After Gadelhak, Scott J. Sheltra
The Internet and the Hobbs Act: What’s the Connection?, Lucas G. Spremulli
The Rhetoric of Racism in the United States Supreme Court, Kathryn Stanchi
Restrain Your Enthusiasm: United States v. Taylor and Robbery Enhancement for Restraint of a Victim, Madeline C. VerHey
Disease, Distribution and Race in the Time of Covid-19, Katharine Young
The Canons of Social and Economic Rights, Katharine G. Young
The New Managerialism: Courts, Positive Duties, and Economic and Social Rights, Katharine G. Young
Submissions from 2020
Criminalizing Immigrant Entrepreneurs (and Their Lawyers), Eric Franklin Amarante
When Trademark Law Met Constitutional Law: How a Commercial Speech Theory Can Save the Lanham Act, Meaghan Annett
The Captive Lab Rat: Human Medical Experimentation in the Carceral State, Laura I. Appleman
Is Transformative Use Eating the World?, Clark D. Asay, Arielle Sloan, and Dean Sobczak
Why Financial Regulation Keeps Falling Short, Dan Awrey and Kathryn Judge
How Pay-to-Win Makes Us Lose: Introducing Minors to Gambling Through Loot Boxes, Kourosh Azin
Concerning Behavior: Do a Public Employee’s Free Association Claims Share the Public Concern Requirement of Free Speech Claims?, Samuel Barrows
Comparative Law as a Way of Life: For William P. Alford, Paulo Barrozo
The Female Legal Realist Inside the Common Law, Ann Bartow
There's Feminism in Those Judgments, Anita Bernstein
Silent Intent? Analyzing the Congressional Intent Requirement to Abrogate Tribal Sovereign Immunity, Michael Bevilacqua
White Male Aristocracy, Mary Sarah Bilder
The Challenge of Deterring Bad Police Behavior: Implementing Reforms that Hold Police Accountable, Robert M. Bloom and Nina Labovich
BC Law Magazine Summer 2020, Boston College Law School
BC Law Magazine Winter 2020, Boston College Law School
Livening Up 1L Year: Moving Beyond Simulations to Engage 1L Students in Live-Client Work, Cheryl Bratt
Court-Packing: An American Tradition?, Joshua Braver
The Boston Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: The First Fifty Years, Mark S. Brodin
Defending Bridgegate, George D. Brown
Sovereign Debt Crises and Vulture Hedge Funds: Issues and Policy Solutions, Daniel J. Brutti