Northwestern University Law Review

Northwestern University Law Review
DisciplineLaw
LanguageEnglish
Publication details
Former name
Illinois Law Review
History1906–Present
Publisher
Frequency6/year
Standard abbreviations
BluebookNw. U. L. Rev.
ISO 4Northwest. Univ. Law Rev.
Indexing
ISSN0029-3571
OCLC no.46542348
Links

The Northwestern University Law Review is a law review and student organization at Northwestern University School of Law. The Law Review's primary purpose is to publish a journal of broad legal scholarship. The Law Review publishes six issues each year. Student editors make the editorial and organizational decisions and select articles submitted by professors, judges, and practitioners, as well as student pieces.[1] The Law Review extended its presence onto the web in 2006 and regularly publishes scholarly pieces on Northwestern University Law Review Online (NULR Online).[2]

History

The Northwestern University Law Review was founded in 1906 by a faculty vote as the Illinois Law Review.[3] It is the seventh oldest surviving law review in the United States,[A] and the second oldest notable law review established outside the Northeast[4] (Michigan Law Review having been established in 1902[5]). Initially, the Law Review was run by the faculty with students only allowed limited roles as associate editors. By 1932, full editorial control of Northwestern's law review had been handed over to the students.[6]

At the journal's founding, John Henry Wigmore, the first full-time Dean of Northwestern Law School, was a frequent contributor. Wigmore penned "adversarial editorials that directly addressed the U.S. Supreme Court of the United States and the 'cowardly' members of the Chicago Bar Association."[3] It has been suggested that Wigmore was motivated to help found a journal after his experience "at Harvard Law School during 1887 and [as a member] of the first editorial board of the Harvard Law Review."[7]

In 1952, the journal was renamed to Northwestern University Law Review although the existing volume number was retained.[8]

Symposium

In addition to individual contributions, the Law Review has a history of special symposium issues on a broad range of topics.

Recent symposium issues have included:[9]

  • The Power of State Constitutional Rights (2025)
  • Racial Justice After SFFA v. Harvard (2024)
  • Data Justice: How Innovative Data is Transforming the Law (2023)
  • Fraud and the Erosion of Trust (2022)
  • Reimagining Property in the Era of Inequality (2021)
  • Second Amendment’s Next Chapter (2020)
  • Rethinking Solitary Confinement (2019)
  • Originalism (2018)
  • Equal Protection and the Social Sciences 30 Years After McCleskey v. Kemp (2017)
  • Democratizing Criminal Law (2016)
  • Free Speech Foundations (2015)
  • Institutional Design and General Welfare (2014)
  • 100 Years Under the Income Tax (2013)
  • Festschrift in Honor of Professor Martin H. Redish (2012)
  • The Legacy of Justice Stevens (2011)

Northwestern University Law Review Online

The Northwestern University Law Review Online is a scholarly legal journal that is the online companion to the Northwestern University Law Review. Formed in 2006, Northwestern University Law Review Online is the first scholarly weblog to be operated by a major law review.[2] It features legal commentary in the form of essays, debates, series, book reviews, and responses to print Law Review pieces. The format of NULR Online allows scholars to publish their thoughts within weeks of an emerging legal development anywhere within the field of legal inquiry, and provides a convenient forum for scholars to exchange ideas in the wake of such developments in the form of debates or multi-contributor series.

NULR Online has also on occasion published special symposium issues including:[9]

  • Anita Bernstein’s The Common Law Inside the Female Body (2019)

Alumni

The Northwestern University Law Review has been staffed and managed by numerous individuals who went on to become well-known legal scholars and practitioners.[1]

Justices and Judges

Academics

U.S. Government Officials

State Government Officials

Contributors

The Law Review History specifically notes a "distinguished list" of contributors including:[1]

Beyond the Law Review's traditional legal scholarship, it has published contributions from noted philosopher F. S. C. Northrop, the Right Reverend James A. Pike, Erle Stanley Gardner, and J. Edgar Hoover.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Michigan directly refers to itself as the 6th oldest (see: "https://michiganlawreview.org/history/), and Northwestern was the next one established, thus 7th - although no direct statement to this effect is available

References

  1. ^ a b c d "History: Northwestern University Law Review". Northwestern University Law Review. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
  2. ^ a b "NULR Online". Northwestern University Law Review.
  3. ^ a b "History". Northwestern Law School.
  4. ^ Swygert, Michael L.; Bruce, Jon W. (1985). "The Historical Origins, Founding, and Early Development of Student-Edited Law Reviews". Hastings Law Journal. 36: 783.
  5. ^ "History". Michigan Law Review.
  6. ^ Swygert & Bruce 1985, p. 785-786.
  7. ^ Swygert & Bruce 1985, p. 748.
  8. ^ "Northwestern University Law Review archives". The Online Books Page.
  9. ^ a b "Past Symposia: Northwestern University Law Review". Northwestern University Law Review.
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