Law Reviews
Advancing Legal Scholarship
Each year, about 150 BC Law students contribute as writers and editors to our flagship Boston College Law Review (BCLR) and our Uniform Commercial Code Digest. Students are selected based on their first-year grades or performance in a demanding writing competition. They receive academic credit for their participation, and a faculty advisor provides guidance for each journal.
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BC Law Review
Ranked in the top 25, BCLR is our oldest scholarly publication, and covers national topics with prominent outside thinkers and BC Law students in eight yearly issues. Student staff writers publish notes and comments on federal circuit court decisions.
Uniform Commercial Code Reporter-Digest
Concentrating on contract disputes, torts, bankruptcy, and more, the Digest serves as a comprehensive tool for practitioners to research case law on various commercial topics. Matthew Bender & Company (a division of Lexis/Nexis) publishes the Digest.
Research and scholarship are vital aspects of the law school experience. Our journals enrich our intellectual community while providing students with invaluable opportunities to hone their research, writing, and editing skills.
Specialty Journal Archives
In 2017, BC Law merged our previous specialty journals with BCLR and increased the staffing and number of BCLR issues published each year. In addition to its regular subject areas, BCLR annually publishes articles on each of the topics previously covered by our specialty journals: environmental, international, and social justice law.
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Environmental Affairs Law Review
Previously ranked as the 10th environmental journal in the country, EALR shaped discussion of today’s most pressing environmental laws and policies. This subject area is now covered by BCLR.
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International & Comparative Law Review
ICLR was one of only 30 reviews in the US to focus on international legal affairs and one of the few that published an annual survey of EU law. This subject area is now covered by BCLR.
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Journal of Law and Social Justice
JLSJ published scholarship on issues affecting US and global populations underserved by the academy. This subject area is now covered by BCLR.