Newton, MA--Since first appearing in Boston College Law School’s Digital Commons Repository in June 2010, articles from the Boston College Law Review have been downloaded more than 100,000 times.

The 100,000th article download was: “Municipal Liability Under Section 1983 and the Ambiguities of Burger Court Federalism: A Comment on City of Oklahoma City v. Tuttle and Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati -- The ‘Official Policy’ Cases”. The milestone article was written by Professor George D. Brown, Interim Dean of Boston College Law School.

The Boston College Law School journals are hosted on the repository platform of The Berkeley Electronic Press -- Digital Commons. The Boston College Law Review, along with the Boston College International & Comparative Law Review, the Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review, the Boston College Third World Law Journal, and the Law School Faculty Publications series, are freely available online, helping to fulfill the Law School’s commitment to the wide distribution of its scholarship.