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 ninth annual collaboration issue with the American Judicature Society. The topic for this symposium issue is Lawyers, Judges, and Money:  Evolving Legal Issues Surrounding Spending on Judicial Elections.

The fourth issue of Volume 60--published in the summer of 2012--will mark another year of the ongoing relationship between the Drake Law Review and Drake's Constitutional Law Center.  Issue 60:4 will contain articles from presenters at the 2012 Constitutional Law Symposium. Click here for details on the 2012 Symposium titled "Constitutionalism and the Poor."

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 ranking among the 30 most-cited legal periodicals by courts from 1997-2008.

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). 

Article Submissions

Interested in writing an article for our journal?  If you would like to contribute to our continued success by submitting an article for possible publication, you may do so by clicking here or by clicking on the Subscriptions & Submissions tab.  Visitors can provide feedback, subscribe, or order single issues online by clicking here.