Suffolk University Law Review

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A representative volume of the Suffolk University Law Review

The Suffolk University Law Review is a law review published at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts by an independent student group.

Contents

Overview

The law review's membership consists entirely of second and third year law students at Suffolk University Law School. These students are selected from an annual writing competition, and eligibility to compete is based on exceptional first-year grades. Suffolk University Law Review was established in 1967 [1] and publishes all of its articles in both print form and online. [2]

Donahue Lecture Series

The Suffolk University Law Review sponsors the Donahue Lecture Series, which annually attracts lecturers from among the nation's top legal scholars and jurists. Each Donahue Lecturer is an exceptionally prominent legal scholar who delivers a lecture at Suffolk University Law School that forms the basis for a Lead Article to be published in the Law Review shortly thereafter.

The Law Review instituted this lecture series in 1980 to commemorate the Honorable Frank J. Donahue, former faculty member, trustee, and treasurer of Suffolk University. Judge Donahue graduated from Suffolk University Law School in 1921, and served as an Associate Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts for forty-two yearsthe longest term in that court's history. As Chairman of the Law School Committee of the Board of Trustees, Judge Donahue played an active role in the expansion of the faculty, library, and other facilities at the law school. For many years, he served as president of the Law School Alumni Association, and in that capacity personally raised thousands of dollars of scholarship funds to promote, encourage, and reward the pursuit of scholastic excellence.

Over the years, the Donahue Lecture Series has featured a number of outstanding legal scholars and jurists, including: Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Associate Justices Antonin Scalia, Stephen Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor, Judge Richard Posner, former United States Attorney General Edwin Meese, and consumer protection activist Ralph Nader. [3]

The Following is a Representative, but Currently Incomplete List of Prior Donahue Lecturers

SpeakerTitle
Bernard Schwartz Webb Professor of Law, New York University Law School
Peter L. Strauss Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law
A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Philip B. Kurland William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Law School
Theodore J. St. Antoine James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
G. Edward White Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
Grant Gilmore Professor of Law, Vermont Law School
Lawrence M. Friedman Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Antonin Scalia Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
John E. NowakProfessor of Law, University of Illinois School of Law
Edward D. Re Chief Judge of the United States Court of International Trade
Derrick A. Bell, Jr.Dean, University of Oregon School of Law
Paul R. Verkuil Dean of the Law School, Tulane University School of Law
Raoel BergerCharles Warren Senior Fellow, Harvard University Law School
Jerold S. AuerbachProfessor and Chairman of the History Department, Wellesley College
Dorothy W. Nelson United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jerome A. BarronDean of the George Washington University National Law Center
Richard A. Posner United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
William H. Rehnquist Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Ronald D. RotundaProfessor of Law, University of Illinois
Ralph NaderLawyer and Consumer Protection Activist
Irving YoungerMarvin J. Sonosky Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
Constance Baker Motley United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
L. Kinvin WrothDean of the University of Maine School of Law
Lino A. GragliaRex G. Baker and Edna Heflin Baker Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Texas School of Law
Charles E. RiceProfessor of Law, University of Notre Dame Law School
Jules B. GerardProfessor of Law, Washington University School of Law
Bernard H. SieganDistinguished Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law
Edwin Meese III Former United States Attorney General
Sarah WeddingtonLawyer and Lecturer, University of Texas and Texas Women's University
Stephen Breyer United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, now Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Stanley Sporkin United States District Judge for the District of Columbia
Louis FisherSenior Specialist in Separation of Powers Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress
Jack GreenbergDean of Columbia University
Patricia McGowan Wald United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Cass R. SunsteinKarl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago Law School
Owen M. FissAlexander M. Bickel Professor of Public Law, Yale University Law School
Rodney A. SmollaArthur B. Hanson Professor of Law and Director, Institute of Bill of Rights Law, College of William and Mary, Marshall-Whythe School of Law
Douglas J. WhaleyJames W. Shocknessy Professor of Law, Ohio State University College of Law
Shirley S. Abrahamson Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
A.E. Dick Howard White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs, University of Virginia
E. Allan Farnsworth Alfred McCormack Professor of Law, Columbia University
Michael J. PerryHoward J. Trienens Professor of Law, Northwestern University Law School
A. Kim Cambell Former Canadian Prime Minister
George P. FletcherCardozo Professor of Jurisprudence, Columbia University School of Law
Emma Coleman JordanProfessor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Paul B. Stephan, IIIPercy Brown, Jr. Professor of Law and the Hunton & Williams, Research Professor, University of Virginia
Bruce M. Selya United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Sonia Sotomayor United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, now Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Daniel R. CoquilletteFormer Dean and Professor of Law, Boston College Law School
Akhil Reed Amar Southmayd Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Charles Fried Associate Justice for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Patti B. Saris United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Richard J. Leon Partner, Baker & Hostetler, now District Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Alex Kozinski United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Edward D. Re Chief Judge Emeritus for the United States Court of International Trade and Distinguished Professor of Law, St. John's University School of Law
Nancy Gertner United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Loren A. Smith Chief Judge of the United States Court of Claims
Erwin Chemerinsky Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Southern California Law Center
Joyce London AlexanderUnited States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Dean Alice Gresham BullockDean and Professor, Howard University School of Law
Sandra L. Lynch United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Charles H. WhitebreadGeorge T. Pfleger Professor of Law, The Law School, University of Southern California
Gerald E. RosenUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Laurie L. LevinsonProfessor of Law, William M. Rains Fellow, Loyola Law School
Professor David D. ColeProfessor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Last Update: February 22, 2013

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References

  1. "Law Review Homepage" . Retrieved 2013-02-22.
  2. "Online availability" . Retrieved 2013-02-22.
  3. Suffolk University Law School : Law Review : Donahue Lectures