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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 sixth annual collaboration issue with the
American Judicature Society. The topic for this symposium issue is
Assessing the Values of Punishment: The State of Sentencing in the United States Criminal Justice System.
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). Visitors can provide feedback, subscribe, or order single issues online by clicking
here.
