The Michigan State Law Review has been ranked 56th by Washington and Lee University among more than 200 American flagship journals.
In recent years, the journal has attracted the work of world-renowned scholars, among them are former Yale Law School Dean Robert C. Post; former NYU School of Law Dean Richard Revesz; and Cornell Law School Dean Jens David Olin.
Additionally, the journal has featured the work of Akhil Amar, Mark Lemley, Matthew Stephenson, and Edward McCaffery as well as forthcoming pieces by Kenneth Abraham and Eric Posner.
“Michigan State Law Review is one of the College of Law's crown jewels,” said faculty advisor, Associate Pro.r and Associate Dean David Blankfein-Tabachnick. “It has a long history of publishing some of the most important and highly regarded legal scholars on the planet and giving our student editors world-class experience.”
MSLR publishes up to five print issues per academic year as well as a monthly online edition. Some 66 students run the journal, doing everything from selecting articles for publication, fact-checking citations, conducting up to five rounds of edits, and maintaining regular communications with the author.
“The skills you get from the law review you can’t get elsewhere in the same amount of time,” said Anna Maxwell, ’25, MSLR editor-in-chief. “The attention to detail, the ability to research quickly, knowing where to go to find the source material – this is all incredibly valuable experience.
“I think it’s so meaningful to have this kind of direct impact on scholarship,” she said. “This is where the legal world goes for answers. Think about it, Supreme Court justices turn to law review articles before deciding cases. And it all starts with students.”
Maxwell is one of the three current MSLR staffers to have received federal clerkships. The others are Nicholas Langenberg and Thomas Gliniecki. They all credit their law review experience.
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