Columbia Law Review
| Discipline | Jurisprudence |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Alexandria (Alexa) Iraheta Sousa[1] |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1901–present |
| Publisher | Columbia Law Review Association, Inc.[2] (United States) |
| Frequency | 8/year |
| Yes | |
| 2.224 (2018) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| Bluebook | Colum. L. Rev. |
| ISO 4 | Columbia Law Rev. |
| Indexing | |
| CODEN | COLRAO |
| ISSN | 0010-1958 (print) 1945-2268 (web) |
| LCCN | 29-10105 |
| JSTOR | 00101958 |
| OCLC no. | 01564231 |
| Links | |
The Columbia Law Review is a law review edited and published by students at Columbia Law School. The journal publishes scholarly articles, essays, and student notes.
It was established in 1901 by Joseph E. Corrigan and John M. Woolsey, who served as the review's first editor-in-chief and secretary.[3] The Columbia Law Review is one of four law reviews that publishes the Bluebook.
History[edit]
The Columbia Law Review represents the school's third attempt at a student-run law periodical. In 1885, the Columbia Jurist was founded by a group of six students but ceased publication in 1887.[4] Despite its short run, the Jurist is credited with partially inspiring the creation of the Harvard Law Review, which began publication a short time later.[5]
The second journal, the Columbia Law Times was founded in 1887 and closed down in 1893 due to lack of revenue.[6]
Publication of the current Columbia Law Review began in 1901,[7] making it the fifth oldest surviving law review in the US. Dean William Keener took an active involvement during its founding to help ensure its longevity.[8]
In June 2024, the journal published an article by Rabea Eghbariah, a Palestinian human rights lawyer, titled "Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept", which criticizes the "brutally sophisticated regime of oppression" of Palestinians "[a]cross Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem, and refugee camps" by the Israeli government. The article aims at creating an international legal framework for the Nakba similar to genocide and apartheid.[9][10] The journal's board of directors suspended its website after the editors refused to delay or unpublish the article while it was further reviewed[by whom?].[11]
Impact[edit]
The Columbia Law Review was the top-cited law journal during the 2018 Supreme Court term.[12]
According to the Journal Citation Reports the Columbia Law Review had a 2009 impact factor of 3.610, ranking it third out of 116 journals in the category "Law".[13] In 2007, the Columbia Law Review ranked second for submissions and citations within the legal academic community, after Harvard Law Review.[14]
Notable alumni[edit]
Notable alumni of the Columbia Law Review include:
- U.S. Supreme Court Justices
- U.S. Courts of Appeals Judges
- U.S. District Courts Judges
- U.S. Solicitors General
- Chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission Mary Jo White
- Director of the CIA William Colby
- U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara
- Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Director of the National Economic Council Stephen Friedman (PFIAB)
- Columbia University president Lee C. Bollinger
- Columbia Law School deans
- Young B. Smith
- Michael I. Sovern
- Barbara Aronstein Black
- Columbia Law School professors
- Herbert Wechsler
- Oscar Schachter
- Walter Gellhorn
- Harvey Goldschmid
- R. Kent Greenawalt
- Gillian E. Metzger
- E. Allan Farnsworth
- University of Pennsylvania Law School professors
- Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
- Howard Lesnick (Editor-in-Chief)
- Amy Wax
- Yale Law School professors
- Duke University School of Law professor George C. Christie
- Michigan Law School professor Mark D. West
- New York University Law School professor Samuel Estreicher
- Berkeley professor and criminal law scholar Sanford Kadish
- New York Governor George Pataki
- Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax
- Two-time SEC General Counsel David M. Becker
- NBA Commissioner David Stern
- New York Supreme Court Justice Aron Steuer
- Prominent attorneys
- Authors
Notable articles[edit]
- Cohen, Felix S. (1935). "Transcendental Nonsense and the Functional Approach". Columbia Law Review. 35 (6): 809–849. doi:10.2307/1116300. JSTOR 1116300.
- Fuller, Lon L. (1941). "Consideration and Form". Columbia Law Review. 41 (5): 799–824. doi:10.2307/1117840. JSTOR 1117840.
- Frankfurter, Felix (1947). "Some Reflections on the Reading of Statutes". Columbia Law Review. 47 (4): 527–546. doi:10.2307/1118049. JSTOR 1118049. S2CID 158802030.
- Hart, Henry M. (1954). "The Relations Between State and Federal Law". Columbia Law Review. 54 (4): 489–542. doi:10.2307/1119546. JSTOR 1119546.
- Wechsler, Herbert (1954). "The Political Safeguards of Federalism: The Role of the States in the Composition and Selection of the National Government". Columbia Law Review. 54 (4): 543–560. doi:10.2307/1119547. JSTOR 1119547.
References[edit]
- ^ "Columbia Law Review Contact/".
- ^ "Columbia Law Review on JSTOR". jstor.org. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
- ^ "Columbia Law Review on JSTOR". jstor.org. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
- ^ Swygert, Michael; Bruce, Jon (1985). "The Historical Origins, Founding, and Early Development of Student-Edited Law Reviews". Hastings Law Journal. 36 (5): 739. ISSN 0017-8322.
- ^ Association (1886– ), Harvard Law School; School, Harvard Law (1918). The Centennial History of the Harvard Law School, 1817–1917. Harvard law school association. p. 139.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Swygert & Bruce 1985, p. 782.
- ^ "About the Review". Columbia Law Review.
- ^ Swygert & Bruce 1985, p. 783.
- ^ Eghbariah, Rabea (May 2024). "Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept" (PDF). Columbia Law Review. 124 (4): 887–992. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 5, 2024. Retrieved June 5, 2024.
- ^ Lennard, Natasha; Thakker, Prem (June 3, 2024). "Columbia Law Review Refused to Take Down Article on Palestine, So Its Board of Directors Nuked the Whole Website". The Intercept. Archived from the original on June 5, 2024. Retrieved June 5, 2024.
- ^ Sharon Otterman (June 4, 2024). "Columbia Law Review Website Is Taken Offline Over Article Criticizing Israel". The New York Times. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
- ^ "Empirical SCOTUS: What the justices cited in OT 2018". SCOTUSblog. July 24, 2019.
- ^ "Web of Science". 2011. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
- ^ "Law Journals: Submissions and Ranking". Archived from the original on May 8, 2006. Retrieved January 15, 2007.
