The ''Michigan Law Review'' is an American
law review
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and the flagship law journal of the
University of Michigan Law School
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.
History
The ''Michigan Law Review'' was established in 1902, after
Gustavus Ohlinger, a student in the
Law Department (now the Law School) of the
University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
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, approached the dean with a proposal for a law journal.
The ''Michigan Law Review'' was originally intended as a forum in which the faculty of the Law Department could publish its legal scholarship. The faculty resolution creating the ''Michigan Law Review'' required every faculty member to submit two articles per year to the new journal.
From its inception until 1940, the ''Michigan Law Reviews student members worked under the direction of faculty members who served as
editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
.
The first of these was
Floyd Mechem, the last
Paul Kauper. In 1940, the first student editor-in-chief was selected. During the years that followed, student editors were given increasing responsibility and autonomy; today, the ''Michigan Law Review'' is run with no faculty supervision.
The current editor-in-chief is Dashaya Foreman.
Day-to-day production operations are overseen by the current managing editor, Nia Vogel, and executive production editor, Michaela Olson.
Seven of each volume's eight issues ordinarily are composed of two major parts: "Articles" by legal scholars and practitioners and "Notes" written by the student editors. One issue in each volume is devoted to book reviews. Occasionally special issues are devoted to symposia or colloquia.
Rankings
In 2016, PrawfsBlawg ranked the ''Michigan Law Review'' as the sixth best law journal by weighing its Google Scholar Metrics law journal ranking, US News Peer Reputation Ranking, US News Overall Ranking, and the W&L Combined Ranking. Based on data from 2009 through 2016,
Washington and Lee University School of Law
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ranked the ''Michigan Law Review'' as the seventh best law journal.
According to Google Scholar Metrics, the ''Michigan Law Review'' was the seventh best law journal in 2015 and the sixth best law journal in 2014.
According to Washington and Lee University School of Law's Law Library, the ''Michigan Law Review'' is the seventh most cited law journal in academic works, being cited in journals 3888 times between 2009 and 2016, and the sixth most cited law journal by courts, being cited in 128 cases between 2009 and 2016.
As of 2012, the ''Michigan Law Review'' has published 4 of the 100 most cited law journal articles of all time—the fifth highest of any law journal.
Of the 95 articles that constitute the 5 most cited law journal articles from each year between 1991 and 2009, 9 of them were published by the ''Michigan Law Review''—the 5th most of any law journal.
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Notable alumni
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Steven G. Bradbury, former head of the
Office of Legal Counsel
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David W. Belin, assistant counsel to the
Warren Commission
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Francis X. Beytagh, former dean,
Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
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Charles Blakey Blackmar, former Chief Justice,
Supreme Court of Missouri
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Michael T. Cahill, Dean of
Brooklyn Law School
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Ann Coulter
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, conservative commentator, author, and syndicated columnist
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George E. Cryer, former mayor of
Los Angeles
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David M. Ebel, judge,
United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
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Harry T. Edwards, former Chief Judge,
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Heidi Li Feldman
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Education
Feldman attended Brown Un ...
, law professor
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Jeffrey L. Fisher,
Supreme Court litigator
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Heather K. Gerken, dean,
Yale Law School
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Ronald Gould, judge,
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
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Robert Jerry, dean of the
University of Florida Levin College of Law
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Alex Joel
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, first Civil Liberties Protection Officer for the
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
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Sally Katzen, former administrator of
OIRA
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W. Wallace Kent, former judge,
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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* Bob Kimball, former president and CEO of
RealNetworks
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Dave Kopel, conservative pundit and blogger
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Jeffrey P. Minear, counselor to
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
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Ronald L. Olson, "name partner" in the Los Angeles office of the law firm of
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
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Doug Pappas, baseball writer and researcher who was considered the foremost expert on the business of baseball
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John Porter John Porter may refer to:
Politicians
* John Porter (portreeve), 1390–94, Member of Parliament (MP) for Taunton
* John Porter (Illinois politician) (1935–2022), Illinois politician, U.S. Representative
* John Porter (MP for Bramber) (died 1599 ...
, former
United States Representative
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from
Illinois
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Daniel Tarullo, member of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System
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David Westin, President of
ABC News
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James D. Zirin, lawyer, writer and cable TV talk show host
Parody
The ''Michigan Raw Review'', a parody of the ''Michigan Law Review'', was published annually by the Barristers Society, a self-styled honorary at the University of Michigan Law School. The ''Raw Review'' used the same cover, layout, and typeface, but contained content totally dissimilar, leaning to the "insulting and semi-pornographic".
Swift, Theodore W., "There's a unicorn in the garden", ''Law Quadrangle Notes'' (Fall, 1981)
Reprinted in Frazier, Richard, ''Let the Record Show'', Michigan State University Press, (1997), p. 284.
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External links
* {{Official website, http://www.michiganlawreview.org/
American law journals
General law journals
Publications established in 1902
University of Michigan
Monthly journals
English-language journals
1902 establishments in Michigan
Law journals edited by students
University of Michigan Law School