The ''Washington and Lee Law Review'' is a
law review
A law review or law journal is a scholarly journal or publication that focuses on legal issues. A law review is a type of legal periodical. Law reviews are a source of research, imbedded with analyzed and referenced legal topics; they also pr ...
published four times each year by the
Washington and Lee University School of Law
The Washington and Lee University School of Law (W&L Law) is the professional graduate law school of Washington and Lee University. It is a private American Bar Association-accredited law school located in Lexington in the Shenandoah Valley regi ...
and founded in 1939. It presents lead
articles contributed by leading
scholar
A scholar is a person who pursues academic and intellectual activities, particularly academics who apply their intellectualism into expertise in an area of study. A scholar can also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher, or researc ...
s,
judges, and
lawyers, as well as student notes. Student writers are chosen during the summer after their first year of
law school based upon grades and the results of a
writing
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Writing systems do not themselves constitute h ...
competition.
Each staff writer develops a topic for original
legal research Legal research is "the process of identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision-making. In its broadest sense, legal research includes each step of a course of action that begins with an analysis of the facts of a prob ...
, and writes over the course of the second year under the supervision of a
faculty advisor and student
editor. Selected writers continue as editors in the third year of law school.
References
External links
Official website
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American law journals
Quarterly journals
Washington and Lee University