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Founded in 1915, the Cornell Law Review is a student-run and student-edited journal that strives to publish novel scholarship that will have an immediate and lasting impact on the legal community. The Cornell Law Review publishes seven issues annually consisting of articles, essays, book reviews, and student notes.
The Cornell Law Review/Law Quarterly has regularly published contributions from the nation’s leading scholars in legal education. Justices of the Supreme Court have also taken to the pages of the journal to express their views—whether it was Robert Jackson, John Harlan, William Douglas, or Felix Frankfurter in the pages of the Cornell Law Quarterly, or Ruth Bader Ginsburg more recently in the Cornell Law Review. The journal has also drawn on the strength and excellence of the Cornell Law School faculty—publishing contributions by Professor Kevin Clermont on jurisdictional questions, Professor Theodore Eisenberg’s empirical work, Professor James Henderson (co-Reporter on the Third Restatement of Torts) on products liability, and Professor Steven Shiffrin on the religion clauses of the First Amendment. The journal has also featured the work of some new additions to the Cornell faculty—Professors Mitchel Lasser, Nelson Tebbe, and Bradley Wendel in recent volumes.
As it enters its second century of publishing, the Cornell Law Review strives to uphold the vision articulated for this journal ninety years ago—a vision for publishing useful and challenging legal scholarship—a vision that remains new to each generation of students that inherit it.