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The Iowa Law Review is a student-run journal of legal scholarship affiliated with the University of Iowa College of Law. Since its inception in 1915 as the Iowa Law Bulletin, the Iowa Law Review has served as a scholarly legal journal, noting and analyzing developments in the law and suggesting future paths for the law to follow.^[1] It is the most cited and highest ranked journal out of the four journals at the University of Iowa College of Law, and is ranked 22nd among law journals nationally.^[2] Since 1935, students have edited and have managed the Law Review, which is published five times annually. The Law Review ranks high among the top "high impact" legal periodicals in the country, and its subscribers include legal practitioners and law libraries throughout the world.^[1]

History

The Iowa Law Review has its origins in the Iowa Law Bulletin.^[1] The original Bulletin series was published from 1891-1900 by faculty.^[3] The Bulletin was reinstated in 1915, only it was edited by both faculty members and students of the University of Iowa College of Law.^[4] The Bulletin noted the previous version in the introduction of its first issue:

While the old series of the Bulletin was published by the faculty of the College of Law, the new series is edited by the faculty and students. The student board is made up of men of high rank chosen from the Juniors and Seniors of the Law College. the Notes and Recent Cases which appear in this number are due to their efforts. Members of the faculty assist with criticisms and suggestions, but the work is that of the student board.^[5]

The Bulletin became the Iowa Law Review in 1925.^[6] The Iowa Law Review stressed with its official name change that the journal's focus would be on Iowa legal issues, but "occasionally an article of general scope [would] appear."^[7] Though the Iowa Law Review intended to maintain a narrow Iowa focus, it has published on a much broader basis, and has included many topics of national and international law.^[8] Though this broader focus has been subject to criticism by Iowa lawyers, it has also contributed to the Iowa Law Review's "ever-increasing national presence and reputation of the Iowa College of Law."^[9]

For a complete history of the Iowa Law Review, see Willard Boyd & Randall P. Bezanson, Ninety Years of the Iowa Law Review, 91 IOWA L. REV. 1 (2005).

Iowa Law Review Projects

In 1933, the Iowa Law Review presented its first symposium, which focused on administrative law.^[10] Since its first symposium, the Iowa Law Review has continued to hold symposia on issues of national importance.^[11] The next symposium is planned for the 2010-2011 school year. The symposium, entitled “The Future of Legal Education,” will include professors, practitioners, and judges, and they will critique the prevalent methods of teaching legal education, address proposed reforms, and debate what steps law schools should take to best prepare students for the practice of law .^[1]

In 1968, the Iowa Law Review began the "Contemporary Studies Project."^[12] These projects were large-scale, usually empirically-based, and often lasted for more than one year.^[13] Some of the projects have received national recognition and/or have affected legislation and judicial reforms in Iowa and around the country.^[14] "For example, the Contemporary Studies Project, published in April of 1970, Facts and Fallacies About Iowa Civil Commitment, 55 Iowa L. Rev. 895 (1970), lead to the wholesale revision, in 1975, of Iowa's civil commitment laws. Two studies, A Comparison of Iowans' Dispositive Preferences with Selected Provisions of the Iowa and Uniform Probate Codes, 63 Iowa L. Rev. 1041 (1978), and The Iowa Small Claims Court: an Empirical Analysis, 75 Iowa L. Rev. 433 (1990), have been widely cited and relied upon in law review articles and by courts throughout the country. ^[15]

Recognition

The Iowa Law Review has been widely cited for its legal research, theory, and analysis. Most recently, the Iowa Supreme Court cited a student note^[16] in its landmark decision Varnum v. Brien concerning gay marriage.^[17]

Iowa Law Review Today

The current Iowa Law Review has sixteen members on its Editorial Board, sixteen Contributing Editors, and forty-one student writers. A current masthead can be viewed at http://www.uiowa.edu/~ilr/masthead/masthead95.pdf.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d About Us, Iowa Law Review, http://www.uiowa.edu/~ilr/about.htm Cite error: The named reference "law.uiowa.edu" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
^ Washington and Lee University School of Law, Law Journals: Submissions and Rankings, http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/index.aspx (ranking the Iowa Law Review No. 22)
^ Willard Boyd & Randall P. Bezanson, Ninety Years of the Iowa Law Review, 91 IOWA L. REV. 1, 2-3 (2005), available at http://www.uiowa.edu/~ilr/about.htm
^ Id.
^ Id.
^ Id. at 4
^ Id. at 2-3 (2005)
^ Willard Boyd & Randall P. Bezanson, Ninety Years of the Iowa Law Review, 91 IOWA L. REV. 1, 4 (2005), available at http://www.uiowa.edu/~ilr/about.htm
^ Id. at 4.
^ Id.
^ Id.
^ Willard Boyd & Randall P. Bezanson, Ninety Years of the Iowa Law Review, 91 IOWA L. REV. 1, 4 (2005), available at http://www.uiowa.edu/~ilr/historic/Ninety%20Years%20of%20the%20Iowa%20Law%20Review.pdf.
^ Id. at 5.
^ Id.
^ Id. at n.11.
^ Steven P. Wieland, Gambling, Greyhounds, and Gay Marriage: How the Iowa Supreme Court Can Use the Rational-Basis Test to Address Varnum v. Brien, 94 Iowa L. Rev. 413, available at http://www.law.uiowa.edu/journals/ilr/Issue%20PDFs/ILR_94-1_Wieland.pdf
^ Varnum v. Brien, 763 N.W.2d 862 (Iowa 2009), available at http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_documents/iowa040309.pdf

[law.uiowa.edu-1] About Us, Iowa Law Review, http://www.uiowa.edu/~ilr/about.htm Cite error: The named reference "law.uiowa.edu" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).

[2] Washington and Lee University School of Law, Law Journals: Submissions and Rankings, http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/index.aspx (ranking the Iowa Law Review No. 22)

[3] Willard Boyd & Randall P. Bezanson, Ninety Years of the Iowa Law Review, 91 IOWA L. REV. 1, 2-3 (2005), available at http://www.uiowa.edu/~ilr/about.htm

[4] Id.

[5] Id.

[6] Id. at 4

[7] Id. at 2-3 (2005)

[8] Willard Boyd & Randall P. Bezanson, Ninety Years of the Iowa Law Review, 91 IOWA L. REV. 1, 4 (2005), available at http://www.uiowa.edu/~ilr/about.htm

[9] Id. at 4.

[10] Id.

[11] Id.

[12] Willard Boyd & Randall P. Bezanson, Ninety Years of the Iowa Law Review, 91 IOWA L. REV. 1, 4 (2005), available at http://www.uiowa.edu/~ilr/historic/Ninety%20Years%20of%20the%20Iowa%20Law%20Review.pdf.

[13] Id. at 5.

[14] Id.

[15] Id. at n.11.

[16] Steven P. Wieland, Gambling, Greyhounds, and Gay Marriage: How the Iowa Supreme Court Can Use the Rational-Basis Test to Address Varnum v. Brien, 94 Iowa L. Rev. 413, available at http://www.law.uiowa.edu/journals/ilr/Issue%20PDFs/ILR_94-1_Wieland.pdf

[17] Varnum v. Brien, 763 N.W.2d 862 (Iowa 2009), available at http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_documents/iowa040309.pdf

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