Overview

The Drake Law Review is published quarterly by students of Drake University Law School. This site provides a sampling of the recent articles, notes, and lectures published in the pages of the Review.  The site also hosts Discourse, an entirely online journal formed in 2012 by the Review.  More information on the Discourse can be found here.  Along with hosting the online journal, this site provides 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 tenth annual collaboration issue with the American Judicature Society. The topic for this symposium issue is Access to Justice: Where is the Boundary for Due Process?

The fourth issue of Volume 61--published in the summer of 2013--will mark another year of the ongoing relationship between the Drake Law Review and Drake's Constitutional Law Center.  Issue 61:4 will contain articles from presenters at the 2013 Constitutional Law Symposium. Click here for details on the 2013 Symposium titled "The U.S. Constitution and Political Dysfunction: Is There a Connection?"

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 Drake 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 45 most-cited legal periodicals by courts from 2004-2011. The Drake Law Review strives to provide exemplary articles that are academically and practically relevant for practitioners and scholars.  Published articles are highly informative, thoroughly researched and address topics of law in Iowa, the United States, and across the globe.  The Drake Law Review editorial board is dedicated to a high level of performance to publish top quality, well-informed articles in every issue.    

The Drake Law Review has published articles by legal scholars such as Frank Michelman, Peter Edelman, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Cady, 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).