Chicago-Kent Law Review

Chicago-Kent Law Review
Title	Chicago-Kent Law Review
Discipline	Law
Abbreviation	Chi.-Kent L. Rev.
Publisher	Chicago-Kent College of Law
Country	United States
Frequency	Quarterly
History	1923–present

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Chicago-Kent Law Review is a student-edited legal periodical published by Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The Review has published scholarship touching on United States constitutional law, federal procedure, intellectual property, antitrust, environmental regulation, and comparative law, attracting contributors from courts, governmental agencies, law firms, and academic institutions.

History

Founded in 1923, the Review emerged during a period of expansion in American legal scholarship alongside journals at Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, Columbia Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, and New York University School of Law. Early editorial boards included students who later clerked for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States and litigated before the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Over decades the Review has hosted symposia connected to landmark events and institutions such as the Ninth Circuit, Federal Trade Commission, United States Department of Justice, American Bar Association, and the Chicago Bar Association.

Scope and Content

The Review publishes articles, essays, notes, and book reviews on subjects including First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Administrative Procedure Act, Sherman Antitrust Act, Patent Act, and Clean Air Act. It has featured work on comparative topics involving European Court of Human Rights, International Court of Justice, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, United Kingdom Supreme Court, and Constitution of Japan. The journal’s pages have contained contributions addressing cases such as Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Miranda v. Arizona, and Marbury v. Madison, and analyses of statutes like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Editorial Structure and Membership

The Review is governed by an executive board of editors drawn from Chicago-Kent students, with roles analogous to those at Stanford Law School, University of Michigan Law School, Duke University School of Law, and Georgetown University Law Center. Membership is typically determined by competitive selection procedures similar to those used by journals at Cornell Law School, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, and Boston University School of Law, including writing competitions and grade qualifications. Faculty advisors often include scholars affiliated with institutions such as University of Chicago Law School, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, and John Marshall Law School (now part of University of Illinois Chicago).

Notable Articles and Symposia

The Review has sponsored symposia featuring panels with judges from the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, attorneys general from State of Illinois, and scholars who have written influential pieces later cited by the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Notable articles have engaged with doctrines developed in United States v. Nixon, Mapp v. Ohio, Massachusetts v. EPA, Kelo v. City of New London, and Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Contributors have included authors affiliated with Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, The Columbia Law Review, and practitioners from firms such as Sidley Austin, Kirkland & Ellis, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and Latham & Watkins.

Impact and Rankings

Citations to Review articles have appeared in judicial opinions from the Supreme Court of the United States, the Illinois Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and federal trial courts. The journal is referenced in law school rankings and bibliometric studies alongside titles like Michigan Law Review, California Law Review, and Virginia Law Review. Its influence is measurable through citations in treatises published by scholars at Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and academic centers such as the Brookings Institution and the Hoover Institution.

Notable Alumni and Contributors

Alumni and contributors connected to the Review include clerks and litigators who have served at the Supreme Court of the United States, partners at major firms including Jones Day and Covington & Burling, academics at Georgetown University Law Center and Columbia Law School, and public servants who have worked for the United States Department of Justice, Federal Communications Commission, and the Illinois Attorney General. Past contributors have included scholars associated with Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg (through citation networks), and commentators from media institutions such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Publication and Access

The Review appears quarterly and distributes to subscribers including universities, law libraries like the Library of Congress, and professional organizations such as the American Bar Association and the American Association of Law Libraries. Archives and individual issues are indexed in databases used by researchers at LexisNexis, Westlaw, HeinOnline, and university repositories at institutions like University of California, University of Michigan, and Columbia University. Digital preservation partners have included projects associated with HathiTrust and the Internet Archive.

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