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
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
Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants and the Pursuit of Justice for All in the Massachusetts Courts, Dina E. Fein and A.W. "Chip" Phinney
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
Compelling Compassion: Navigating Federal Compassionate Release After the First Step Act, John F. 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
Remarks at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, Ralph D. Gants
Speech at the Access to Justice Fellows Graduation, Ralph D. Gants
Testimony on Mandatory Minimum Sentences, Ralph D. Gants
Letter to Members of the Judiciary and the Bar After the Death of George Floyd, Ralph D. Gants and The Associate Members of the Supreme Judicial Court
A Trip Down Legislative Memory Lane: How the FMLA Charts a Path for Post-COVID-19 Paid Leave Reform, Caroline M. Gelinne
Time Is Money, Ladies: The Ninth Circuit Prohibited Prior Pay as a Factor Other Than Sex in Rizo v. Yovino, Caroline M. Gelinne
The Extraordinary Criminal Law Jurisprudence of Justice Ralph Gants, Nancy Gertner
Remembering Ralph, Scott Gilbert, Harold Hongju Koh, and Larry Tu
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
One of One: Justice Gants and Lessons from the Keo Case, Joshua E. Goldstein
Corporate Personhood and the Putative First Amendment Right to Discriminate, Kent Greenfield and Daniel A. Rubens
Interagency Coordination on Labor Regulation, Hiba Hafiz
Structural Labor Rights, Hiba Hafiz
The Labor Justice System, 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
Taking Liberty Decisions Away from "Imitation" Judges, Mary Holper
Taxing Cloud Computing Proves to Be Just That--Taxing, Emily A. Ivers
Using State-Based Adequacy Now, National Adequacy Over Time to Anticipate and Defeat Schrems III, 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
The Impact of Marijuana Decriminalization on Legal Permanent Residents: Why Descheduling Marijuana at the Federal Level Should Be a High Priority, Michelle A. Kain
Deportation in the Shadows of Due Process: The Dangerous Implications of DHS v. Thuraissigiam, Daniel Kanstroom
“Either I Close My Eyes or I Don’t”: The Evolution of Rights in Encounters between Sovereign Power and “Rightless” Migrants, Daniel Kanstroom
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
Marchand v. Barnhill's Impact on the Duty of Oversight: New Factors to Assess Directors' Liability for Breaching the Duty of Oversight, Katherine M. King
The "Gants Principles" for Online Dispute Resolution: Realizing the Chief Justice's Vision for Courts in the Cloud, Harold Hongju Koh
Othering Across Borders, Steven Arrigg Koh
The Criminalization of Foreign Relations, 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 Right to Remain Silent: Abortion and Compelled Physician Speech, J. Aidan Lang
The Juvenile Justice Legacy of Chief Justice Ralph Gants, Barbara Lenk and David Rassoul Rangaviz
The True Benefit of the Bargain: How Emotional Distress Damages Make Fraud Victims Whole, Jonathan G. Lester
Between Code and Treatise: The Hard Challenge of the Restatement of Copyright, Joseph P. Liu
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