Duke Law Journal
| Discipline | Legal studies |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Jeffrey Chemerinsky (as of 2008) |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1951 to present |
| Publisher | Duke University School of Law (United States) |
| Frequency | Monthly (eight times a year from October through May) |
| 1.42 (2007) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | DLJ |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0012-7086 |
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The Duke Law Journal is a student-run journal of legal scholarship published at Duke University School of Law. The Journal publishes general-interest articles and student notes in eight issues each year.
Overview
The Duke Law Journal publishes monthly, eight times per year, from October through May. The journal is among the most heavily cited law reviews in the country. It is currently ranked as the 19th most cited law review, according to Washington and Lee University School of Law's rankings.[1]
History
The first issue of what was to become the Duke Law Journal was published in March 1951 as the Duke Bar Journal. Created to provide a medium for student expression, the Duke Bar Journal consisted entirely of student-written and student-edited work until 1953, when it began publishing faculty contributions. To reflect the inclusion of faculty scholarship, the Duke Bar Journal became the Duke Law Journal in 1957. In 1969, the Journal published its inaugural Administrative Law Symposium issue, a tradition that continues today.[2]
Volume 1 of the Duke Bar Journal spanned two issues and 259 pages. In 1959, the Journal grew to four issues and 649 pages, growing again in 1970 to six issues and 1263 pages. The journal's most recent volume, Volume 57, had 2176 pages.[3]
Today, the Duke Law Journal publishes eight issues per volume. Its staff of law students is committed to the purpose set forth in the Duke Law Journal constitution: to publish legal writing of superior quality.
Selection for Publication
The Journal invites the submission of unsolicited articles, essays, and comments, and the Journal's editors review every submission that is received.[4]
Electronic submissions made through ExpressO are preferred. Paper submissions are also accepted. The Journal has a strong preference for Articles of fewer than 35,000 words (or roughly 70 law review pages), including footnotes; longer articles will only be published in exceptional circumstances. Shorter essays are welcomed.[5]
The Journal also publishes a number of student Notes written by members of the Journal. These Notes are chosen by the Note Selection Committee.
Staff and Selection of Membership
The Journal selects approximately 40 rising second-year law students for membership. This selection occurs through Duke Law's casenote competition. At the end of the first-year, students interested in joining the Journal submit a 14 page note which is graded. Of the group that submitted notes, the Duke Law Journal then selects 1/3 of its members from those who have the highest first-year grade point average, one-third whose GPA and note score were highest, and the final one-third based on the remaining highest note scores. Students who wish to join the Journal after this point can write a note of publishable quality and submit it through the "note-on" process. Each year, the Journal accepts one or two students in this manner.[6]
Symposium
The Duke Law Journal hosts a yearly symposium on administrative law.
The 2009 Duke Law Journal symposium, to be held on March 20, 2009, will focus on administrative law under the George W. Bush administration and the future of administrative law. The symposium will look retrospectively at the characteristics and accomplishments of the administrative state under the Bush Administration and prospectively at the direction the next President will or should take the administrative state. The symposium expects to include general articles about the larger themes and trends in administrative law as well as articles focusing on specific administrative law fields. Particapants will include: Judge Harry Edwards, Professors Cynthia Farina, Catherine Fisk, Lisa Heinzerling, Deborah Malamud, Daniel Richman, Catherine Sharkey, Cass Sunstein, Adrian Vermeule, and John Yoo.