New York University Law Review

*New York University Law Review*
Discipline	Legal studies
Language	English
Publication details
Former name(s)	Annual Review of the Law School of New York University; New York University Law Quarterly Review
History	1924–present
Publisher	New York University School of Law (United States)
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	2.427 (2021)
Standard abbreviations;
Bluebook	N.Y.U. L. Rev.
ISO 4	N. Y. Univ. Law Rev.
Indexing;
ISSN	0028-7881 ;
LCCN	31004260
OCLC no.	46988231
Links
	Journal homepage ;

Last updated November 19, 2024

Selection

Each year, the journal selects 52 new members from a class of approximately 450. Members are selected using a competitive process, which takes into account an applicant's first-year grades, performance in a writing competition, and potential to contribute to diversity on the journal.^[4]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

Current Contents/Business Collection^[5]
Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences^[5]
EBSCO databases ^[6]
HeinOnline ^[6]
International Bibliography of Periodical Literature ^[6]
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences ^[6]
Modern Language Association Database ^[6]
ProQuest databases ^[6]
Scopus ^[7]
Social Sciences Citation Index ^[5]

According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 2.427.^[8]

Lawsuit over discrimination against white males

On October 6, 2018, a group called "Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences" filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against the review over discrimination against white males in selecting staff editors and articles to publish.^[9] The challengers lost at trial^[10] and again on appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.^[11] The Supreme Court of the United States declined to review the case.^[12]

Alumni

Prominent alumni of the New York University Law Review include:

Hakeem Jeffries, Minority Leader of the 118th Congress^[13]
Breon Peace, United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York.^[14]
Phil Weiser, 39th Attorney General of Colorado ^[15]
Rudy Giuliani, 107th Mayor of New York City
Evan Chesler, former chairman of Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Martin Lipton, co-founder of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz,^[16]
Leonard Rosen, co-founder of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz ^[16]
Herbert Wachtell, co-founder of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz ^[16]
George Katz, co-founder of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz ^[16]

Notable articles

The journal has published the following notable articles:^[17]

Karl N. Llewellyn, Through Title to Contract and a Bit Beyond, 15 N.Y.U. L.Q. Rev. 159 (1938)
Hugo L. Black, The Bill of Rights, 35 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 865 (1960)
Earl Warren, The Bill of Rights and the Military, 37 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 181 (1962)
Clyde W. Summers, Individual Rights in Collective Agreements and Arbitration, 37 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 362 (1962)
Henry J. Friendly, In Praise of Erie--And of the New Federal Common Law, 39 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 383 (1964)
Robert A. Leflar, Choice-Influencing Considerations in Conflict Law, 41 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 267 (1966)
Anthony G. Amsterdam, The Supreme Court and the Rights of Suspects in Criminal Cases, 45 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 785 (1970)
Ronald Dworkin, The Forum of Principle, 56 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 469 (1981)
William J. Brennan, Jr., The Bill of Rights and the States: The Revival of State Constitutions as Guardians of Individual Rights, 61 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 535 (1986)
Richard L. Revesz, Rehabilitating Interstate Competition: Rethinking the 'Race-to-the-Bottom' Rationale for Federal Environmental Regulation, 67 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1210 (1992)
Russell G. Pearce, The Professionalism Paradigm Shift: Why Discarding Professional Ideology Will Improve the Conduct and Reputation of the Bar, 70 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1229 (1995)
Yochai Benkler, Free as the Air to Common Use: First Amendment Constraints on Enclosure of the Public Domain, 74 L. Rev. 354 (1999)
Jon D. Hanson & Douglas A. Kysar, Taking Behavioralism Seriously: The Problem of Market Manipulation, 74 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 630 (1999)
Jody Freeman, The Private Role in Public Governance, 75 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 543 (2000)
Stephen Breyer, Our Democratic Constitution, 77 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 245 (2002)
Lisa Schultz Bressman, Beyond Accountability: Arbitrariness and Legitimacy in the Administrative State, 78 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 461 (2003)
Jack M. Balkin, Digital Speech and Democratic Culture: A Theory of Freedom of Expression for the Information Society, 79 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1 (2004)
Richard A. Nagareda, Class Certification in the Age of Aggregate Proof, 84 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 97 (2009)
Arthur R. Miller, Simplified Pleading, Meaningful Days in Court, and Trials on the Merits: Reflections on the Deformation of Federal Procedure, 88 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 286 (2013)

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[1] 1 N. Y. U. L. Rev. 1.

[2] E.g., id.

[3] E.g., 10 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1.

[4] "NYU Law Review, Membership Selection" . Retrieved 31 March 2023.

[ISI-5] 1 2 3 "Web of Science Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate . Retrieved 2022-12-02.

[MIAR-6] 1 2 3 4 5 6 "New York University Law Review". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals. University of Barcelona . Retrieved 2022-12-02.

[Scopus-7] "Source details: New York University Law Review". Scopus Preview. Elsevier . Retrieved 2022-12-02.

[WoS-8] "New York University Law Review". 2021 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science OR Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate. 2022.

[9] Binkley, Collin (October 9, 2018). "Harvard, NYU law reviews sued over alleged discrimination". The Washington Post .

[10] "NYU Law Review wins dismissal of suit challenging its racial and gender preferences". ABA Journal.

[11] "TaxProf Blog: 2nd Circuit Backs NYU Law Review In Challenge To Diversity Policy". taxprof.typepad.com.

[12] "Search - Supreme Court of the United States". www.supremecourt.gov.

[13] Masthead NYU Law Review

[14] [https://www.linkedin.com/in/breon-peace-3432687/

[15] "Philip Weiser '94 named dean of the University of Colorado Law School". NYU Law School News. May 31, 2011. Retrieved December 11, 2022.

[auto-16] 1 2 3 4 Steinberger, Erica H.; Lipton, Martin (1978). Takeovers and Freezeouts. Law Journal Press. ISBN 9781588520050 . Retrieved August 15, 2014.

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