Drake Law Review

Overview

The Drake Law Review is published quarterly by students of Drake University Law School. This site provides general information, along with a sampling of the articles, notes, and lectures published in the pages of the Review. Click here for the contents of our current issue. This year, the Review will be publishing its fourth annual collaboration issue with the American Judicature Society. The topic for this symposium issue is The Intersection of Personal Convictions and Federal Judicial Selection. For more information regarding this upcoming AJS issue, please click here.

Background

The Drake Law Review attempts to provide a diverse collection of scholarship in each volume. A conscious attempt is made to provide articles, notes, and lectures that are practical in application, yet forward in thought and purpose. The Law Review has enjoyed much success over the years. For instance, Drake Law Review ranks among the nation's top law journals, recently being named the 25th most-cited legal periodical by courts from 1997-2004. In the past three years, the Drake Law Review has published articles by legal scholars such as Erwin Chemerinsky, Cass Sunstein, Randy Barnett, Cheryl Harris, Paul Brest, Stephen Carter, and Michael Gerhardt. In 2003, the United States Supreme Court once again cited the Drake Law Review. Justice Stevens's dissenting opinion in United States v. Am. Library Ass'n, Inc., 539 U.S. 194 (2003) extensively quoted Gregory K. Laughlin's article entitled "Sex, Lies, and Library Cards: The First Amendment Implications of the Use of Software Filters to Control Access to Internet Pornography in Public Libraries," 51 DRAKE L. REV. 213 (2003). Visitors can provide feedback, subscribe, or order single issues online by clicking here.