The ''Northwestern University Law Review'' is a

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and student organization at

Northwestern University School of Law Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law is the law school of Northwestern University, a private research university. It is located on the university's Chicago campus. Northwestern Law has been ranked among the top 14, or "T14" law s ...

. The ''Law Review''s primary purpose is to publish a journal of broad legal scholarship. The ''Law Review'' publishes six issues each year. Student editors make the editorial and organizational decisions and select articles submitted by professors, judges, and practitioners, as well as student pieces. The ''Law Review'' extended its presence onto the web in 2006 and regularly publishes scholarly pieces on ''Northwestern University Law Review Online (NULR Online)''.

History

The ''Northwestern University Law Review'' was founded in 1906 by a faculty vote as the ''Illinois Law Review''. It is the seventh oldest surviving law review in the United States, and only the second notable law review established outside the Northeast (''Michigan Law Review'' having been established in 1902). Initially, the ''Law Review'' was run by the faculty with students only allowed limited roles as associate editors. By 1932, full editorial control of Northwestern's law review had been handed over to the students. At the journal's founding

John Henry Wigmore John Henry Wigmore (1863–1943) was an American lawyer and legal scholar known for his expertise in the law of evidence and for his influential scholarship. Wigmore taught law at Keio University in Tokyo (1889–1892) before becoming the first ...

, the first full-time Dean of Northwestern Law School, was a frequent contributor. Wigmore penned "adversarial editorials that directly addressed the U.S. Supreme Court of the United States and the 'cowardly' members of the Chicago Bar Association." It has been suggested that Wigmore was motivated to help found a journal after his experience "at Harvard Law School during 1887 and s a memberof the first editorial board of the ''Harvard Law Review''." In 1952, the journal was renamed to ''Northwestern University Law Review'' although the existing volume number was retained.

Colloquy

The ''Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy'' is a scholarly legal journal that is the online companion to the Northwestern University Law Review located at the

. Although the Colloquy is published online, its scholarly and journalistic standards are equal to that of the print Law Review. The Colloquy is the first scholarly weblog to be operated by a major law review. It features legal commentary in the form of essays, debates, series, book reviews, and responses to print Law Review pieces. The format of the Colloquy allows scholars to publish their thoughts within weeks of an emerging legal development anywhere within the field of legal inquiry, and provides a convenient forum for scholars to exchange ideas in the wake of such developments in the form of debates or multi-contributor series. Readers can rely upon the Law Review editors and staff to ensure that citations in these pieces support the assertions made in the posts. The Colloquy also provides for commenting on the essays and posts in a moderated forum.

Notable alumni

The ''Law Review'' has been staffed and managed by numerous individuals who went on to become well-known legal scholars and practitioners.

Former Editors-in-Chief

Roscoe Pound Nathan Roscoe Pound (October 27, 1870 – June 30, 1964) was an American legal scholar and educator. He served as Dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law from 1903 to 1911 and Dean of Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936. He was a membe ...

, long-time dean of Harvard Law School * Justice John Paul Stevens * Governor Daniel Walker *

Newton N. Minow Newton Norman Minow (born January 17, 1926) is an American attorney and former Chair of the Federal Communications Commission. He is famous for his speech referring to television as a " vast wasteland". While still maintaining a law practice, Mi ...

, former chairman of the

Federal Communications Commission The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdicti ...

* Kate A. Shaw, professor of law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Other Editorial Officers

* Justice

Arthur Goldberg Arthur Joseph Goldberg (August 8, 1908January 19, 1990) was an American statesman and jurist who served as the 9th U.S. Secretary of Labor, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the 6th United States Ambassador to ...

* Adlai Stevenson

Specified contributors

The Law Review History specifically notes a "distinguished list" of contributors as well. * Dean

Leon 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 ...

* Sir William Holdsworth * Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes * Albert M. Kales * Nathan William MacChesney *

Charles T. McCormick Charles Tilford McCormick (29 June 1889 - 22 December 1963) was an American university professor. Early life and education McCormick was born in Dallas, Texas in 1889. He studied at the University of Texas at Austin, graduating in 1909. He receive ...

* Sir Frederick Pollock * Dean

* Dean

* Justice

Felix Frankfurter Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an Austrian-American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 until 1962, during which period he was a noted advocate of judic ...

* Justice Tom Clark * Justice

William O. Douglas William Orville Douglas (October 16, 1898January 19, 1980) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who was known for his strong progressive and civil libertarian views, and is often ci ...

* Justice

Abe Fortas Abraham Fortas (June 19, 1910 – April 5, 1982) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1965 to 1969. Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Fortas graduated from R ...

* Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards *

Erwin Griswold Erwin Nathaniel Griswold (; July 14, 1904 – November 19, 1994) was an American appellate attorney who argued many cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Griswold served as Solicitor General of the United States (1967–1973) under Presidents Lynd ...

Archibald Cox Archibald Cox Jr. (May 17, 1912 – May 29, 2004) was an American lawyer and law professor who served as U.S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy and as a special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal. During his career, he was ...

Paul Freund Paul Abraham Freund (February 16, 1908February 5, 1992) was an American jurist and law professor. He taught most of his life at Harvard Law School and is known for his writings on the United States Constitution and the Supreme Court of the United ...

W. Willard Wirtz William Willard Wirtz Jr. (March 14, 1912 – April 24, 2010) was a U.S. independent agencies of the United States government, administrator, Cabinet of the United States, cabinet officer, attorney, and law professor. He served as the Secret ...

* Albert Ehrenzweig *

H. L. A. Hart Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart (18 July 190719 December 1992), known simply as H. L. A. Hart, was an English legal philosopher. He was Professor of Jurisprudence (University of Oxford), Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University an ...

* Gerald Gunther *

Edward H. Levi Edward Hirsch Levi (June 26, 1911 – March 7, 2000) was an American law professor, academic leader, and government lawyer. He served as dean of the University of Chicago Law School from 1950 to 1962, president of the University of Chicago from ...

Hubert Humphrey Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American pharmacist and politician who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Mi ...

* Brunson MacChesney * Nathaniel Nathanson * Dean James A. Rahl * Dean David Ruder * Martin Redish * Kenneth Culp Davis *

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* Bernard Schwartz * Ian Macneil * John C. Coffee * Gary Lawson * Mary Kay Becker * Stephen Schulhofer *

Nadine Strossen Nadine Strossen (born August 18, 1950) is an American civil liberties activist who was president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from February 1991 to October 2008. A liberal feminist, she was the first woman to ever lead the ACLU. A ...

* Judge José A. Cabranes * Judge

Richard Posner Richard Allen Posner (; born January 11, 1939) is an American jurist and legal scholar who served as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1981 to 2017. A senior lecturer at the University of Chic ...

* Cass Sunstein Beyond the ''Law Review''s traditional legal scholarship, it has published contributions from noted philosopher

F. S. C. Northrop Filmer Stuart Cuckow Northrop (November 27, 1893 in Janesville, Wisconsin – July 22, 1992 in Exeter, New Hampshire) was an American legal philosopher and influential comparative philosopher. After receiving a B.A. from Beloit College in 19 ...

, the Right Reverend James A. Pike,

Erle Stanley Gardner Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was an American lawyer and author. He is best known for the Perry Mason series of detective stories, but he wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces and also a series of nonfiction b ...

, and

J. Edgar Hoover John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He was appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation � ...

. The ''Law Review'' has a history of special symposium issues on a broad range of topics. Recent symposium issues have included: The Law-Stem Alliance and Next Generation Innovation (2016); Democratizing Criminal Law (2016); ''McCleskey v. Kemp'' (2017); and

Originalism In the context of United States law, originalism is a theory of constitutional interpretation that asserts that all statements in the Constitution must be interpreted based on the original understanding "at the time it was adopted". This conc ...

(2018).

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External links

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