The ''Texas Law Review'' is a student-edited and -produced

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affiliated with the

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(Austin). It ranks number 6 on Washington & Lee University's list, number 11 on Google Scholar's list of top publications in law, and number 4 in Mikhail Koulikov's rankings of law reviews by social impact. The ''Review'' publishes seven issues per year, six of which include articles,

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s, commentaries, and notes. The seventh issue is traditionally its symposium issue, which is dedicated to articles on a particular topic. The ''Review'' also publishes the ''Texas Law Review Manual on Usage & Style'' and the ''Texas Rules of Form: The Greenbook'', both currently in their fourteenth editions. The ''Texas Law Review'' is wholly owned by a parent corporation, the Texas Law Review Association, rather than by the school. Admission to the ''Review'' is obtained through a "write-on" process at the end of each academic year. Well over half of each class applies for admission every year and approximately fifty are invited to join. Those selected students join the students from the previous year to form the ''Review'''s membership. About twenty of these students constitute the

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, which is selected early each spring semester. The ''Texas Law Review'' was established in December 1922 by

Leon A. Green Leon Green (March 31, 1888 – June 15, 1979) was an American legal realist and long-tenured dean of Northwestern University School of Law (1929–1947). He also served as professor at Yale Law School (1926–1929) and the University of Texas Sc ...

, Ira P. Hildebrand, and Ireland Graves. Its ''

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'' abbreviation is ''Tex. L. Rev.'' but abbreviates itself by its own editorial convention as ''Texas L. Rev.''

Notable alumni

* Linda L. Addison, Partner-in-Charge, New York,

Fulbright & Jaworski Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. (now Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP), was founded in Houston, TX in 1919 by R.C. Fulbright. On June 3, 2013, the firm became part of the global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, a Swiss verein. Norton Rose Fulbright US L ...

James Baker James Addison Baker III (born April 28, 1930) is an American attorney, diplomat and statesman. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 10th White House Chief of Staff and 67th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President ...

, former United States Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury & White House Chief of Staff * Marian Oldfather Boner, legal scholar * William Curtis Bryson, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit * Jerry Buchmeyer, United States District Judge, Northern District of Texas * Greg Coleman, first solicitor-general of Texas * Ben Clarkson Connally, former Chief Judge, United States District Court, Southern District of Texas * Gregg Costa, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit *

Finis E. Cowan Finis E. Cowan (October 16, 1929 – November 15, 2023) was a United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas and was an Attorneys in the United States, attorney in ...

, former United States District Judge, Southern District of Texas *

Lloyd Doggett Lloyd Alton Doggett II (born October 6, 1946) is an American attorney and politician who is a U.S. representative from Texas. A member of the Democratic Party, he has represented a district based in Austin since 1995, currently numbered as Texa ...

, United States Congressman, Former Justice of the Texas Supreme Court *

Walter Raleigh Ely Jr. Walter Raleigh Ely Jr. (June 24, 1913 – October 9, 1984) was a United States federal judge, United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Education and career Born in Baird, Texas, Baird, Callahan Cou ...

, former Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit * David Frederick, appellate attorney; has argued cases before the

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* Bryan A. Garner, editor in chief of Black's Law Dictionary, coauthor with Justice Antonin Scalia on ''Reading Law'' and ''Making Your Case'' * Thomas Gibbs Gee, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit * Joe R. Greenhill, former Justice & Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court * James Wesley Hendrix, United States District Judge, Northern District of Texas * Harry Lee Hudspeth, Chief United States District Judge, Western District of Texas *

Edith Jones Edith Hollan Jones (born April 7, 1949) is a United States circuit judge and the former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Jones was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on February 27, 1985, to a new seat ...

, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit * George P. Kazen, United States District Judge, Southern District of Texas * W. Page Keeton, former Dean of The University of Texas School of Law and author of Prosser & Keeton on Torts *

Robert Keeton Robert Ernest Keeton (December 16, 1919 – July 2, 2007) was an American lawyer, jurist, and legal scholar. As a law professor at Harvard Law School and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Mas ...

, United States District Judge, District of Massachusetts *

Baine Kerr Baine Perkins Kerr (August 24, 1919 – May 20, 2008) was a prominent Houston lawyer who was a partner in the law firm of Baker and Botts, where he managed the corporate law department, before he joined Pennzoil. Career Kerr was president ...

, former President, Pennzoil, Inc. * Robert Lanier, Former Mayor of Houston *

Stephen Susman Stephen Daily Susman (January 20, 1941 – July 14, 2020) was an American commercial litigation, commercial plaintiffs attorney and founding and name partner of Susman Godfrey LLP. He won more than $2 billion in damages and settlements in jus ...

(1941-2020), plaintiffs attorney and a founding partner of Susman Godfrey *

Diane Wood Diane Pamela Wood (born July 4, 1950) is an American attorney who serves as a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. After ...

, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit * Lisa Blatt, Chair of Williams & Connolly’s Supreme Court and Appellate practice

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* {{Authority control American law journals University of Texas School of Law Publications established in 1922 English-language journals 7 times per year journals General law journals Law journals edited by students