Submissions from 2022
Ransomware, Cyber Sanctions, and the Problem of Timing, Christine Abely
Best Frenemies: Evaluating the Dual Jurisdiction of the Federal Antitrust Agencies, Kimberly H. Anker
There's No Place Like Dot-Com: Are Websites Places of Public Accommodation Under Title III of the ADA?, Michele Astor-Pratt
Scratching the "8-Ball": The Fourth Circuit's Approach to the First Step Act Misses the Mark, Matthew Baker
Toxic Promises, Shmuel I. Becher, Yuval Feldman, and Meirav Furth-Matzkin
Have Disclosures Kept Up with the Big Data Revolution? An Empirical Test, Uri Benoliel
NYSRPA v. Bruen and the Future of the Sensitive Places Doctrine: Rejecting the Ahistorical Government Security Approach, Carina Bentata Gryting and Mark Anthony Frassetto
The Not-So-Straight First Amendment: Why Prohibitions on Conversion Therapy for Children Survive Strict Scrutiny, Samuel G. Bernstein
Legal Age, Alexander A. Boni-Saenz
BC Law Magazine Winter 2022, Boston College Law School
Executing Defendants with Intellectual Disabilities: Unconstitutional in Theory, Persistent in Practice, Victoria E. Broderick
Taking Justification Seriously: Proportionality, Strict Scrutiny, and the Substance of Religious Liberty, Justin Collings and Stephanie Hall Barclay
Pornography Isn't the Problem: A Feminist Theoretical Perspective on the War Against Pornhub, Taylor Comerford
The End of Purposeful Discrimination: The Shift to an Objective Batson Standard, Timothy J. Conklin
"Sexual Activity": What Qualifies Under 18 U.S.C. § 2422?, Max Doherty
The PrEP Penalty, Doron Dorfman
Bond, Jinxed Bond: Advocating for the Repeal of the Statutory Ban on Federal Review of Discretionary Bond Determinations Under 8 U.S.C. § 1226(e), Chelsea B. Eddy
Judicial Solidarity?, Daniel Farbman
A Commons in the Master's House, Daniel S. Farbman
"The Right to Protest for Right": Reaffirming the First Amendment Principle That Limits the Tort Liability of Protest Organizers, Allison R. Ferraris
Evidence, Truth, and History in Atrocity Trials, Fergal Gaynor
Pleasure Patents, Andrew Gilden and Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec
Rethinking Foreign Affairs Deference, Elad D. Gil
Disaster Vulnerability, Lisa Grow, Brigham Daniels, Doug Spencer, Chantel Sloan, Natalie Blades, M. Teresa Gómez, and Sarah R. Christensen
The Brand Defense, Hiba Hafiz
Young Guns: The Constitutionality of Raising the Minimum Purchase Age for Firearms to Twenty-One, Zachary S. Halpern
Platform-Enabled Crimes: Pluralizing Accountability When Social Media Companies Enable Perpetrators to Commit Atrocities, Rebecca J. Hamilton
Safe Injection Facilities: Reconsidering American Drug Policy, Evelyn L.A. Jackson
Superior Status: Relational Obstacles in the Law to Racial Justice and LGBTQ Equality, Osamudia James
Psychosis, Heat of Passion, and Diminished Responsibility, E. Lea Johnston and Vincent T. Leahey
All Work and No Pay: The Massachusetts Overtime Statute and Its Agricultural Exemption, Emily Jordan
A Hacker “May” Have Accessed Your Data: Can Victims of Data Breaches Sue Before Alleging Misuse?, John Landzert
Medicare "Bankruptcy", Matthew B. Lawrence
Business Warfare, Tom C.W. Lin
High Anxiety: Forcing Medical Marijuana Patients to Choose Between Employment and Treatment, Robert M. Lydon
States and Systemic Risk: An Analysis of the Dodd-Frank Act's (Un)Cooperative Federalism, Daniel A. Lyons
Doing Away with Disorderly Conduct, Rachel Moran
"Whose Electors? Our Electors!": Due Process as a Safeguard Against Legislative Direct Appointment of Presidential Electors After an Election, Anh Duy Nguyen
Virtual Annual Meetings: A Path Toward Shareholder Democracy and Stakeholder Engagement, Yaron Nili and Megan Wischmeier Shaner
Accountable to None? Challenging Sovereign Immunity Through the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Heather Odell
Calling Strikes: The Sixth Circuit’s Interpretation of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, Emily O'Hara
“Dueling” Experts and the False Claims Act: Weaponizing Legal Falsity to Combat Hospice Fraud, Kristen Parnigoni
The Right of Women to Child Care in the United States, Caroline Raines Greenfield
(Ven)mo Money, (Ven)mo Problems? How Money Laundering Permeates Peer-to-Peer Payment Platforms, Rohena Rajbhandari
Sovereign Immunity or: How the Federal Government Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Discretionary Function Exception, Tristen Rodgers
Motion Denied: Procedural Pitfalls Prevail in Motions to Remand, Blair Rotert
Indiana Jones and the Illicit Excavation and Trafficking of Antiquities: Refining Federal Statutes to Strengthen Cultural Heritage Protections, Marina F. Rothberg
Data Protection in the Digital Economy: Legislating in Light of Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc., Zachary Schapiro
Designing an Americans with Abilities Act: Consciousness, Capabilities, and Civil Rights, Zachary E. Shapiro, Allison Rabkin Golden, Gregory E. Antill, Katherine Fang, Chaarushena Deb, Elizabeth Clarke, Alexis Kallen, Hanya M. Qureshi, Kai Shulman, Caroline V. Lawrence, Laura C. Hoffman, Megan S. Wright, and Joseph J. Fins
Transnational Migration Deterrence, Anita Sinha
Fertility Fraud: The Child's Claims, Fredrick E. Vars
Pandemic Governance, Yanbai Andrea Wang and Justin Weinstein-Tull
Stuck Between a Fiduciary Rock and a Prudential Hard Place: The Eighth Circuit’s Approach to Erisa’s Duty of Prudence, Nicholas J. Whitten
Resuscitating Consent, Megan S. Wright
Submissions from 2021
Ending the License to Exploit: Administrative Oversight of Consumer Contracts, Yehuda Adar and Shmuel I. Becher
The Racial Reckoning of Public Interest Law, Atinuke O. Adediran and Shaun Ossei-Owusu
Depression to Dedication: How Chief Justice Gants Saved My Life and Catalyzed Ongoing Advocacy for Mental Health in the Legal Profession, Gavin Alexander
Payments Failure, Hilary J. Allen
Book Review: My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. By Resmaa Menakem, Central Recovery Press (CRP) 2017, Filippa M. Anzalone
The Road to Attorney Well-Being: Past, Present, and Future, Filippa M. Anzalone, Heidi Alexander, and Laurie Capello
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
Critical Legal Thought: The Case for a Jurisprudence of Distribution, Paulo Barrozo
What are Transitions for? Atrocity, International Criminal Justice, and the Political, Paulo Barrozo
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
Amicus Brief: Commonwealth v. Alfred Jenks No. 1306, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Sharon L. Beckman
Amicus Letter: Graham, et.al. v. District Attorney of Hampden County, Sharon L. Beckman
Proposed Model Jury Instruction on Implicit Bias, Sharon L. Beckman
Weaponizing the Office of Legal Counsel, Emily Berman
Review of M.C. Mirow and Howard M. Wasserman (eds.), Painting Constitutional Law: Xavier Cortada’s Images of Constitutional Law, Mary Sarah Bilder
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
The Challenge of Deterring Bad Police Behavior: Implementing Reforms that Hold Police Accountable, Robert M. Bloom and Nina Labovich
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
A Note to Readers, Boston College Law Review
Photographs, Boston College Law Review
BC Law Magazine Summer 2021, Boston College Law School
BC Law Magazine Winter 2021, Boston College Law School
Remembering Chief Justice Gants as a Champion for Housing Justice, Larisa G. Bowman, Esme Caramello, and Nicole Summers
Hospice Care's Adventures in Fraudland: "Battle of the Experts" & Proving Falsity Under the False Claims Act, Elizabeth A. Caruso
Caracter, Credibility, and Rape Shield Rules, R. Michael Cassidy
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
Second-Trimester Abortion Dangertalk, Greer Donley and Jill Wieber Lens
Chief Justice Gants and Access to Justice: A Case Study in Leadership, Compassion, Brilliance, and Strategy, Russell Engler
"An Outrage Upon Our Feelings": The Role of Local Governments in Resistance Movements, Daniel S. Farbman
Schoolbooks and Shackles: The Undue Hardship Standard and Treatment of Student Debt at Bankruptcy, Matthew S. Farina
COVID-19 Protocols in Academic Libraries in Canada and the United States, Stephanie Farne, Jeffrey Bullington, Beate Gersch, Jo Ann Murphy, Lamonica Sanford, and Holt Zaugg