Columbia Law Review

The Columbia Law Review is a law review edited and published by students at Columbia Law School. The journal publishes scholarly articles, essays, and student notes.

Columbia Law Review

Discipline	Jurisprudence
Language	English
Edited by	Margaret Hassel^[1]
Publication details
History	1901–present
Publisher	Columbia Law Review Association, Inc.^[2] (United States)
Frequency	8/year
Impact factor	2.224 (2018)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
Bluebook	Colum. L. Rev.
ISO 4	Columbia Law Rev.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	COLRAO
ISSN	0010-1958
LCCN	29-10105
JSTOR	00101958
OCLC no.	01564231
Links
Journal homepage

It was established in 1901 by Joseph E. Corrigan and John M. Woolsey, who served as the review's first editor-in-chief and secretary.^[3] The Columbia Law Review is one of four law reviews that publishes the Bluebook.

History

The Columbia Law Review represents the school's third attempt at a student-run law periodical. In 1885, the Columbia Jurist was founded by a group of six students but ceased publication in 1887.^[4] Despite its short run, the Jurist is credited with partially inspiring the creation of the Harvard Law Review, which began publication a short time later.^[5]

The second journal, the Columbia Law Times was founded in 1887 and closed down in 1893 due to lack of revenue.^[6]

Publication of the current Columbia Law Review began in 1901,^[7] making it the fifth oldest surviving law review in the US. Dean William Keener took an active involvement during its founding to help ensure its longevity.^[8]

Impact

The Columbia Law Review was the top-cited law journal during the 2018 Supreme Court term.^[9]

According to the Journal Citation Reports the Columbia Law Review had a 2009 impact factor of 3.610, ranking it third out of 116 journals in the category "Law".^[10] In 2007 the Columbia Law Review ranked second for submissions and citations within the legal academic community, after Harvard Law Review.^[11]

Notable alumni

Notable alumni of the Columbia Law Review include:

• U.S. Supreme Court Justices
  • William O. Douglas
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• U.S. Courts of Appeals Judges
  • Wilfred Feinberg
  • Harold Leventhal
  • Paul R. Hays
  • Harold Medina
  • Jerre Stockton Williams
  • James Alger Fee
  • Daniel M. Friedman
  • Joseph Frank Bianco
  • Barbara Lagoa
• U.S. District Courts Judges
  • Jack Weinstein
  • Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum
  • Denise Cote
  • Alvin Hellerstein
  • William Bernard Herlands
  • John S. Martin Jr.
  • Edmund Louis Palmieri
  • Alexander Holtzoff
  • Dickinson Richards Debevoise
  • Richard F. Boulware
  • James Edward Doyle
  • Margaret Garnett
• U.S. Solicitors General
  • Charles Fried
  • Donald Verrilli Jr.
• Chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission Mary Jo White
• Director of the CIA William Colby
• U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara
• Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Director of the National Economic Council Stephen Friedman (PFIAB)
• Columbia University president Lee C. Bollinger
• Columbia Law School deans
  • Young B. Smith
  • Michael I. Sovern
  • Barbara Aronstein Black
• Columbia Law School professors
  • Herbert Wechsler
  • Oscar Schachter
  • Walter Gellhorn
  • Harvey Goldschmid
  • R. Kent Greenawalt
  • Gillian E. Metzger
  • E. Allan Farnsworth
• University of Pennsylvania Law School professors
  • Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
  • Howard Lesnick (Editor-in-Chief)
  • Amy Wax
• Yale Law School professors
  • Felix S. Cohen
  • Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
• Duke University School of Law professor George C. Christie
• Michigan Law School professor Mark D. West
• New York University Law School professor Samuel Estreicher
• Berkeley professor and criminal law scholar Sanford Kadish
• New York Governor George Pataki
• Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax
• Two-time SEC General Counsel David M. Becker
• NBA Commissioner David Stern
• New York Supreme Court Justice Aron Steuer
• Prominent attorneys
  • George Davidson
  • Arthur Garfield Hays
  • Gary P. Naftalis
  • Charles Rembar
  • Louis S. Weiss
• Authors
  • Brad Meltzer

Past Editors-in-Chief

Past Review Editors-in-Chief (1990–2021) ^[12]

Year	Name
2020–2021	Oluwatumise Asebiomo^[13]
2019–2020	Mary Marshall
2018–2019	Tomi O. Williams^[14]
2017–2018	Kelsey A. Ruescher ^[15]
2016–2017	Daniela Dekhtyar ^[16]
2015–2016	Krystina L. Ho ^[17]
2014–2015	Dennis Fan ^[18]
2013–2014	Angela A. Sun ^[19]
2012–2013	Liliana Zaragoza ^[20]
2011–2012	Maren Hulden ^[21]
2010–2011	Farhang Heydari ^[22]
2009–2010	Devi M. Rao ^[23]
2008–2009	Z. W. Julius Chen ^[24]
2007–2008	Karin S. Portlock ^[25]
2006–2007	Grant R. Mainland ^[26]
2005–2006	Young K. Lee ^[27]
2004–2005	Richard A. Kaplan ^[28]
2003–2004	Elizabeth M. Evenson ^[29]
2002–2003	Pankaj Venugopal ^[30]
2001–2002	Margaret L. Taylor ^[31]
2000–2001	Joellen R. Valentine ^[32]
1999–2000	Bryan R. Diederich ^[33]
1998–1999	Lawrence Wu ^[34]
1997–1998	Joshua Waldman ^[35]
1996–1997	William Savitt ^[36]
1995–1996	Geoffrey B. Goldman ^[37]
1994–1995	Susan Stayn ^[38]
1993–1994	Joseph P. Liu ^[39]
1992–1993	Elizabeth L. Earle ^[40]
1991–1992	Daniel P. Penn ^[41]
1990–1991	Nancy L. Sanborn ^[42]

Notable articles

^{[according to whom?]}

• Cohen, Felix S. (1935). "Transcendental Nonsense and the Functional Approach". Columbia Law Review. 35 (6): 809–849. doi:10.2307/1116300. JSTOR 1116300.
• Fuller, Lon L. (1941). "Consideration and Form". Columbia Law Review. 41 (5): 799–824. doi:10.2307/1117840. JSTOR 1117840.
• Frankfurter, Felix (1947). "Some Reflections on the Reading of Statutes". Columbia Law Review. 47 (4): 527–546. doi:10.2307/1118049. JSTOR 1118049. S2CID 158802030.
• Hart, Henry M. (1954). "The Relations Between State and Federal Law". Columbia Law Review. 54 (4): 489–542. doi:10.2307/1119546. JSTOR 1119546.
• Wechsler, Herbert (1954). "The Political Safeguards of Federalism: The Role of the States in the Composition and Selection of the National Government". Columbia Law Review. 54 (4): 543–560. doi:10.2307/1119547. JSTOR 1119547.

References

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External links

• Official website