Tag:legal scholarship

It's that time again — we're ready to look back at trending topics in legal scholarship throughout the year. This blog post highlights the 25 most-used keywords for articles accepted via Scholastica in 2023 (January 1st to present) and some notable new and forthcoming related pieces.

In this blog post, we round up some top tips and resources for the aspects of law review submission season that are most critical to editors and authors to help foster a shared understanding of article selection and a more successful law review submission cycle for all.

Wondering what topics legal scholars have been focusing on this year? In this blog post, we highlight the 25 most-used keywords for articles accepted via Scholastica from January 1st, 2022, to present and some notable pieces related to those topics.

Wondering what topics legal scholars have been focusing on this year? In this blog post, we highlight 25 of the keywords most used during the 2021 law review submission season that stuck out as particularly timely and noteworthy.

Why has the rate of Black law student admissions remained so low? And what steps can law schools take to better support the needs of aspiring Black lawyers? Mitch Crusto, Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, has been focused on unpacking the many layers of these questions and identifying ways law schools can improve current diversity initiatives.

Harold McDougall, professor of law at Howard University, discusses his research on policing and recommendations for holistic police reforms directed at the community level, including the development of a Civilian Community Service Corps.

In this interview, Editor in Chief of the Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy, Jared Jevons, shares the details of the journal's upcoming special issue on race relations and how they are working to create a forum for public policy solutions to address systemic racism.

In this interview, members of Washington Law Review discuss their experience transitioning to a blind article selection process and steps they're taking to make implicit bias education part of new editor training.

In this interview, Mitch Crusto, Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola University New Orleans, discusses the many obstacles to police reform in the US legal system and the transformational change he believes is needed to both save lives and foster community policing.

In this free webinar on demand, we cover top article selection and online publishing best practices. If you're new to law review, tune in to learn how to make the most of your e-board tenure!