University of Chicago Law Review

University of Chicago Law Review
Title	University of Chicago Law Review
Discipline	Law
Abbreviation	U. Chi. L. Rev.
Publisher	The University of Chicago
Country	United States
History	1933–present
Frequency	Quarterly

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University of Chicago Law Review The University of Chicago Law Review is a quarterly student-edited legal journal associated with the University of Chicago. Founded in 1933, the Review has published leading scholarship by judges, scholars, and practitioners connected to institutions such as United States Supreme Court, Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, Columbia Law School, and Stanford Law School. Its pages have featured contributions from figures tied to Chicago School (economics), Law and Economics (movement), and debates involving New Deal legislation, Civil Rights Act of 1964, and landmark cases like Brown v. Board of Education.

History

The Review was established in the interwar period contemporaneous with journals like Harvard Law Review and Yale Law Journal and during intellectual currents that included scholars from Chicago School (economics), University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and the American Bar Association. Early issues reflected responses to events such as the New Deal, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Securities Act of 1933, featuring contributors from institutions such as Columbia University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania Law School, and New York University School of Law. Throughout the mid-20th century the Review published debates involving figures associated with Warren Court, Earl Warren, Felix Frankfurter, and scholars from University of Chicago Law School and Georgetown University Law Center. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries the Review engaged with litigation in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, scholarship from Harvard University, and policy discussions involving Congress of the United States, United States Department of Justice, and international matters referencing institutions like International Court of Justice and World Trade Organization.

The Review is organized as a student-run law journal with a board of editors selected from the University of Chicago Law School student body, paralleling governance models used by Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and Columbia Law Review. Editorial decisions balance submissions from faculty at Stanford Law School, NYU School of Law, University of Pennsylvania, Duke University School of Law, and practitioners from firms such as Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Sullivan & Cromwell, and Kirkland & Ellis. The editorial staff typically includes an editor-in-chief, managing editors, and article editors, many of whom later clerk for judges on the United States Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and state supreme courts like the Illinois Supreme Court. The Review's selection process often mirrors practices at Princeton University, Yale University, and Stanford University journals, employing cite-checking protocols influenced by standards from American Bar Association committees and citation guides such as the The Bluebook.

The Review has published influential pieces that intersect with scholarship from Law and Economics (movement), debates advanced at Brookings Institution, and jurisprudential work cited by justices of the United States Supreme Court including Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Clarence Thomas, and Sonia Sotomayor. Articles in the Review have engaged with topics tied to statutes like the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Sherman Antitrust Act, and doctrines developed in decisions such as Marbury v. Madison, United States v. Lopez, and Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.. Contributors have included scholars from Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, University of Chicago Law School, Columbia Law School, and think tanks like Hoover Institution and American Enterprise Institute. The Review's symposium pieces and notes have been cited in opinions authored by judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and district courts in Chicago and New York.

Alumni and former editors have gone on to prominent roles across the legal, academic, and public sectors, including clerkships for justices of the United States Supreme Court, professorships at Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, Columbia Law School, and deanships at institutions like University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Notable former editors have served in government positions within the United States Department of Justice, as judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and as partners at firms such as Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Latham & Watkins, and Debevoise & Plimpton. Alumni networks connect to public figures who have appeared before the United States Senate, engaged with policy at the White House, or testified before congressional committees concerning matters like the Patriot Act and Affordable Care Act.

The Review organizes symposia and special issues that gather scholars from institutions including Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, Stanford Law School, Columbia Law School, and policy interlocutors from Brookings Institution, Hoover Institution, and Cato Institute. Past symposium topics have intersected with landmark cases and statutes such as Brown v. Board of Education, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Sherman Antitrust Act, and international considerations involving the World Trade Organization and International Court of Justice. Special issues often feature panels composed of judges from the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, academics from Princeton University and University of Chicago, and practitioners from major law firms and federal agencies like the Federal Trade Commission and United States Department of Justice.