The ''Boston College Law Review'' is an
academic journal
An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and ...
of legal scholarship and a student organization at
Boston College Law School
Boston College Law School (BC Law) is the law school of Boston College. It is situated on a wooded campus in Newton, Massachusetts, about 1.5 miles from the university's main campus in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
With approximately 800 stud ...
. It was established in 1959. Until 1977, it was known as the ''Boston College Industrial & Commercial Law Review''. Among student-edited general-interest
law reviews
A law review or law journal is a scholarly journal or publication that focuses on legal issues. A law review is a type of legal periodical. Law reviews are a source of research, imbedded with analyzed and referenced legal topics; they also pro ...
, it is currently ranked 22nd in the Washington and Lee School of Law Law Journal Rankings.
The journal publishes eight issues each year (plus an online-only issue, known as the E. Supp., that provides commentary on recent en banc and other significant federal circuit court decisions). Each print issue typically includes four or five articles concerning legal issues of national interest written by outside authors, as well as several student-written notes. The journal has published articles on such wide-ranging topics as the legal issues involved in managing the lives of ex-offenders, the compensation of fund managers in the
mutual fund
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industry, and the contributions of interdisciplinary evidence scholarship. The journal also hosts symposia from time to time and publishes the resulting scholarship.
The journal is staffed by approximately 50 second- and 50 third-year law students. Staff positions are filled by students who either attain the top five grades in each first-year section, who score highest in the first-year writing competition, or a combination of these two criteria.
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References
External links
* {{Official website, https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/law/academics-faculty/law-reviews/bclr.html
American law journals
Publications established in 1959
Boston College
General law journals
Law journals edited by students
English-language journals
8 times per year journals
Magazines published in Boston