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View all collectionsBeginning 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 m...
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 addit...
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 t...
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View all additionsSince running for president in 2016, Donald Trump has consistently used social media to question the legitimacy of the American election system. This strategy came to a head in 2021 when his supporters—falsely believing that President Joseph Biden fraudulently stole the 2020 presidential election fr...
2018, in Trump v. Hawaii, the Supreme Court held that former President Donald J. Trump’s “travel ban” did not violate the Establishment Clause because national security was a “facially legitimate and bona fide” justification. The Court grappled with how to balance its divided Establishment Clause pr...
The exclusionary rule has long been misunderstood. Scholars and judges perceive it as addressing police officers, warning them that evidence obtained in an unconstitutional search or seizure may be inadmissible in court. But officers typically care little about the ultimate conviction of suspects (a...
For more than half a century, jurisdictions have relied on threats of disciplinary sanctions—sticks—to try to coerce attorneys to act in an ethical manner. In doing so, they have focused their efforts on establishing minimum standards of practice and sanctioning only those attorneys who fall well sh...