The Catholic University Law Review is a student-run quarterly law review

Law review

A law review is a scholarly journal focusing on legal issues, normally published by an organization of students at a law school or through a bar association...

 published by the Columbus School of Law

Columbus School of Law

The Columbus School of Law, also known as CUA Law, is the law school of The Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C..Over 900 Juris Doctor students attend CUA Law. Incoming classes are typically composed of two to three hundred students, including day and night programs. Around 3,500...

 (The Catholic University of America

The Catholic University of America

The Catholic University of America is a private university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States. It is a pontifical university of the Catholic Church in the United States and the only institution of higher education founded by the U.S. Catholic bishops...

).

Overview

The journal was established in 1950 and is the Columbus School of Law's oldest legal journal. Recent issues have featured analysis on such topics as the legal status of records and archives in war, the proper role of poverty in determining an indigent defendant's civil right to counsel, the material-support bar and the challenges it poses for modern immigration practitioners, the correct standard of proof for incapacity will contests, a fiftieth anniversary review of the Steelworkers Trilogy, the battle over Passenger Name Record

Passenger Name Record

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s and its role in the attempted Christmas Day bombing

Northwest Airlines Flight 253

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, and the application of sound negotiation theory to the written demand.

The Catholic University Law Review publishes articles, book reviews, and essays, in addition to notes and comments written by student staff members. Its 2008 impact factor

Impact factor

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 is 0.593, ranking it 71st among 104 journals listed in the "Law" category of the Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

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Notable alumni

Notable alumni include Chief Judge Edward J. Damich of the United States Court of Federal Claims

United States Court of Federal Claims

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, Judge Stephanie Duncan-Peters of the District of Columbia Superior Court

Superior Court of the District of Columbia

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, and Ralph Rohner, a former dean of the law school and an expert in commercial and consumer law.

Staff and selection of membership

The Law Review selects approximately 50 second- and third-year law students for membership. This selection occurs through the Law School's writing competition and students' academic performance. During the spring semester, first- and second-year students interested in joining the Law Review submit a 20 page note, which is graded by editors. Of the group that submitted notes, the review then selects its members from those who have the highest combined grade point average

Grade (education)

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 and writing competition score.

Symposia

The Catholic University Law Review hosts a yearly symposium on a select area of law. The 2009 Catholic University Law Review symposium, entitled "The Future of Election Law: The Changing Roles of Campaign Finance and Lobbyist Contributions" focused on the role of campaign finance in election law. The Law Reviews 2010 symposium was entitled "Immigration and National Security: Material Support and the War on Terror."

Abstracting and indexing

The review is abstracted and indexed in:

• AgeLine
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• Arts and Humanities Citation Index
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• The Catholic Periodical and Literature Index
• Current Contents
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• Current Law Index
• Family Index
• Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
• LegalTrac
  InfoTrac
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• Peace Research Abstracts Journal
• Scopus
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• Social Sciences Citation Index
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