University of Pennsylvania Law Review
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The University of Pennsylvania Law Review (Bluebook
abbreviation: U. Pa. L. Rev.) is a law review
focusing on legal
issues, published by an organization of second and third year J.D.
students at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
. It is the oldest law journal in the United States, having been published continuously since 1852. Currently, six issues are published each year with the last issue traditionally featuring papers from symposia held by the review each year. It is one of the four law reviews responsible for publication of the Bluebook. It is one of five official scholarly journals at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
and the fifth most cited law journal in the world.
In addition to the print edition, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review also publishes PENNumbra, an online supplement, which publishes debates, essays, and responses to articles that appeared in the print edition.
and George Wharton Pepper
, it changed its name to the American Law Register and Review. In 1895, Lewis became the first full-time dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and had the Law School take over the journal. The 1896 volume was the first volume to be edited by law students. The journal changed its name in 1908 to the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register, and adopted its current name in 1945.
In addition to publishing numerous influential works of scholarship, the law review has famously published a series of humorous "asides." The most well known is The Common Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule (123 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1474, 1975).
, George Wharton Pepper, Philip Werner Amram
, Sadie Alexander
, Thomas K. Finletter
, Natalie Wexler
, Loftus Becker
, Owen Roberts, Alfred W. Putnam, Jr., Curtis Reitz
, Peter J. Liacouras
, Edward J. Normand
, Jerome B. Simandle
, Dolores Sloviter
, Marci Hamilton
, Arthur Raymond Randolph
, Mark G. Yudof
, Daniel Garodnick
, and Tom Ellis
.
Bluebook
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, a style guide, prescribes the most widely used legal citation system in the United States. The Bluebook is compiled by the Harvard Law Review Association, the Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal....
abbreviation: U. Pa. L. Rev.) is a 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...
focusing on legal
Law
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
issues, published by an organization of second and third year J.D.
Juris Doctor
Juris Doctor is a professional doctorate and first professional graduate degree in law.The degree was first awarded by Harvard University in the United States in the late 19th century and was created as a modern version of the old European doctor of law degree Juris Doctor (see etymology and...
students at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
University of Pennsylvania Law School
The University of Pennsylvania Law School, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania. A member of the Ivy League, it is among the oldest and most selective law schools in the nation. It is currently ranked 7th overall by U.S. News & World Report,...
. It is the oldest law journal in the United States, having been published continuously since 1852. Currently, six issues are published each year with the last issue traditionally featuring papers from symposia held by the review each year. It is one of the four law reviews responsible for publication of the Bluebook. It is one of five official scholarly journals at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
University of Pennsylvania Law School
The University of Pennsylvania Law School, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania. A member of the Ivy League, it is among the oldest and most selective law schools in the nation. It is currently ranked 7th overall by U.S. News & World Report,...
and the fifth most cited law journal in the world.
In addition to the print edition, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review also publishes PENNumbra, an online supplement, which publishes debates, essays, and responses to articles that appeared in the print edition.
History
The journal was founded as the American Law Register, and was originally written, edited, and published by practitioners, but soon expanded its pool of editors and contributors to also include judges and law professors. In 1892, under the leadership of William Draper LewisWilliam Draper Lewis
William Draper Lewis was the first full-time dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the founding director of the American Law Institute.-Personal life and education:...
and George Wharton Pepper
George W. Pepper
George Wharton Pepper was an American lawyer, law professor, and Republican politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
, it changed its name to the American Law Register and Review. In 1895, Lewis became the first full-time dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and had the Law School take over the journal. The 1896 volume was the first volume to be edited by law students. The journal changed its name in 1908 to the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register, and adopted its current name in 1945.
In addition to publishing numerous influential works of scholarship, the law review has famously published a series of humorous "asides." The most well known is The Common Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule (123 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1474, 1975).
Membership selection
Positions on the University of Pennsylvania Law Review are filled based in part on students' grades during first year of law school and in part on students' performance during a writing competition conducted at the end of each school year. The writing competition has two major parts: an editing portion and a writing portion. During the twenty-hour editing portion, contestants are required to correct a sample portion of a fake law review article prepared by the current board. Contestants have at their disposal a copy of the Bluebook and a packet of source materials provided by the review. During the writing portion, contestants are required to create a cohesive, thesis-driven essay using only the set of sources provided. The sources cover a variety of topics, and the essay does not need to be law-related. Each year the review takes approximately fifty-five new members from the rising second-year class, including transfer students. The University of Pennsylvania Law Review is managed by a board of twenty members chosen from the rising 3L class in February of each year.Notable alumni
Prominent alumni of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review include William Draper LewisWilliam Draper Lewis
William Draper Lewis was the first full-time dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the founding director of the American Law Institute.-Personal life and education:...
, George Wharton Pepper, Philip Werner Amram
Philip Werner Amram
Philip Werner Amram was a prominent lawyer and legal scholar. He received a B.A. in liberal arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 1920, a B.S. in agriculture from Pennsylvania State College in 1922...
, Sadie Alexander
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, born Sarah Tanner Mossell , was the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D...
, Thomas K. Finletter
Thomas K. Finletter
Thomas Knight Finletter , was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman.-Biography:Finletter was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Thomas Dickson Finletter and Helen Grill Finletter...
, Natalie Wexler
Natalie Wexler
Natalie Wexler is a novelist and historian. She is a graduate of the Bryn Mawr School, Radcliffe College , the University of Sussex , and the University of Pennsylvania Law School , where she served as editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review...
, Loftus Becker
Loftus Becker
Loftus E. Becker Jr. is a law professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he teaches criminal law, constitutional law, and a seminar on the Supreme Court. In 1965, he graduated from Harvard College, and in 1969 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he served as...
, Owen Roberts, Alfred W. Putnam, Jr., Curtis Reitz
Curtis R. Reitz
Curtis R. Reitz is the Algernon Sydney Biddle Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He received his A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1952, and his LL.B. in 1956...
, Peter J. Liacouras
Peter J. Liacouras
Peter James Liacouras is an American academic.-Career:Liacouras was the President of Temple University from 1981-2000. He is also a former Dean of the Temple University School of Law . He has been chancellor of Temple University since his retirement in 2000...
, Edward J. Normand
Edward J. Normand
Edward J. Normand is a prominent lawyer known for representing Lloyd's of London in the dispute over the extent that its insurance covered the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center. He grew up in Windham, New Hampshire and attended the Pinkerton Academy in Derry. In 1992, Normand...
, Jerome B. Simandle
Jerome B. Simandle
Jerome B. Simandle is a United States federal judge serving on the District of New Jersey. He was born in Binghamton, New York.-Education:*Princeton University, B.S.E., 1971*University of Stockholm, Sweden, Dipl...
, Dolores Sloviter
Dolores Sloviter
Dolores Korman Sloviter is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Born to a Jewish-American family in 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she attended Philadelphia High School for Girls. She graduated from Temple University in 1953 with an A.B. and received her J.D. in...
, Marci Hamilton
Marci Hamilton
Marci Hamilton is the Paul R. Verkuil Chair of Public Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and a widely-regarded scholar in constitutional law. She is an expert on and advocate for the U.S. Constitution's required separation of church and state....
, Arthur Raymond Randolph
Arthur Raymond Randolph
Arthur Raymond Randolph is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was appointed to the Court in 1990 and assumed senior status on November 1, 2008.-Biography:...
, Mark G. Yudof
Mark Yudof
Mark G. Yudof is an American law professor and academic administrator. He is president of the University of California , former chancellor of the University of Texas System , and former president of the University of Minnesota .In addition to his position as Chancellor at The University of Texas,...
, Daniel Garodnick
Daniel Garodnick
Daniel R. "Dan" Garodnick is a New York City Councilman representing Manhattan’s 4th District since 2006.-Biography:Prior to running for elected office, Garodnick was a litigation associate at the New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison...
, and Tom Ellis
Thomas J. Ellis
Thomas Jay "Tom" Ellis is a Pennsylvania public finance attorney. He served several terms as County Commissioner of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, one of the largest counties in Pennsylvania, before being dropped from the ticket during an intra-party feud...
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Notable articles
- James T. Ringgold, Sunday Laws in the United States, 40 Am. L. Reg. 723 (1892)
- William J. Marbury, The Proposed Woman Suffrage Amendment and the Amending Power, 65 U. Pa. L. Rev. 403 (1917)
- Francis H. Bohlen, The Duty of a Landowner Toward Those Entering His Premises of Their Own Right, 69 U. Pa. L. Rev. 237 (1921)
- Margaret Center Klinglesmith, Amending the Constitution of the United States, 73 U. Pa. L. Rev. 48 (1925)
- Robert von Moschzisker, Equity Jurisdiction in the Federal Courts, 75 U. Pa. L. Rev. 287 (1927)
- Ernest G. Black, Torture Under English Law, 75 U. Pa. L. Rev. 344 (1927)
- Alpheus Thomas Mason, Politics and the Supreme Court: President Roosevelt's Proposal, 85 Pa. L. Rev. 659 (1937)
- Charles Cheney Hyde, International Co-operation for Neutrality, 85 Pa. L. Rev. 344 (1937)
- Anthony G. Amsterdam, Note, The Void-For-Vagueness Doctrine in the Supreme Court, 109 U. Pa. L. Rev. 67 (1960)
- Arthur Allen LeffArthur Allen LeffArthur Allen Leff was a professor of law at Yale Law School who is best known for a series of articles examining whether there is such a thing as a normative law or morality...
, Unconscionability and the Code-The Emperor's New Clause, 115 U. Pa. L. Rev. 485 (1967) - Herbert M. Silverberg, Law School Legal Aid Clinics: A Sample Plan; Their Legal Status, 117 U. Pa. L. Rev. 970 (1969)
- Harold LeventhalHarold LeventhalHarold Leventhal was an American music manager. He died in 2005 at the age of 86. His career began as a song plugger for Irving Berlin...
, Environmental Decisionmaking and the Role of the Courts, 122 U. Pa. L. Rev. 509 (1974) - Marvin E. FrankelMarvin E. FrankelMarvin E. Frankel was a litigator, a United States federal judge on the Southern District of New York, a professor at Columbia Law School, and a legal scholar whose views helped to establish sentencing guidelines for the federal courts.-Biography:Born in New York, New York, Frankel was in the...
, The Search for Truth: An Umpireal View, 123 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1031 (1975) - Henry FriendlyHenry FriendlyHenry Jacob Friendly was a prominent judge in the United States, who sat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1959 through 1974 and in senior status until his death by suicide in 1986.- Before the bench :Judge Friendly graduated from...
, "Some Kind of Hearing", 123 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1267 (1975) - Aside, The Common Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule, 123 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1474 (1975) (Will Stevens authored the piece anonymously)
- Michael J. Perry, The Disproportionate Impact Theory of Racial Discrimination, 125 U. Pa. L. Rev. 540 (1970)
- David D. ColeDavid D. ColeDavid D. Cole is an American law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. He has published in various legal fields including civil rights, criminal justice, constitutional law and law and literature...
, Playing by Pornography's Rules: The Regulation of Sexual Expression, 143 U. Pa. L. Rev. 111 (1994) - David NimmerDavid NimmerDavid Nimmer is an American lawyer, law professor, renowned as an expert in United States copyright law. He received an A.B. with distinction and honors in 1977 from Stanford University and his J.D. in 1980 from Yale Law School, where he served as editor of the Yale Law Journal. David Nimmer is of...
, A Riff on Fair Use in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 148 U. Pa. L. Rev. 673 (2000) - Elizabeth S. Anderson & Richard PildesRichard PildesRichard H. Pildes is a law professor at the New York University School of Law and a leading expert on election law. He is one of the nation's leading scholars of public law and a specialist in legal issues affecting democracy....
, Expressive Theories of Law: A General Restatement, 148 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1503 (2000) - Cass SunsteinCass SunsteinCass R. Sunstein is an American legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and law and behavioral economics, who currently is the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration...
, Beyond the Precautionary Principle 151 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1003 (2003)