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Michigan State Law Review

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{{Infobox journal

| title = Michigan State Law Review

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| editor = Diana Ramos

| discipline = Law

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| abbreviation = Mich. State Law Rev.

| bluebook = Mich. St. L. Rev.

| publisher = Michigan State University College of Law

| country = United States

| frequency = 5 issues per year

| history = 1931–present

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| website = https://www.michiganstatelawreview.org/

| link1-name = https://digitalcommons.law.msu.edu/lr/

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| OCLC = 423706799

| LCCN = 2004250071

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| ISSN = 1087-5468

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The Michigan State Law Review is an American law review published by students at Michigan State University College of Law. In the 2024, Washington & Lee School of Law ranking of law reviews, the Michigan State Law Review was ranked 56th among “flagship” print American law journals with a score of 18.11 out of 100, 39th for “impact,” and per W&L Law, the journal is ranked 68th among all student-edited, print, English law journals,{{cite web |title=W&L Law Journal Rankings 2024 |url=https://managementtools4.wlu.edu/LawJournals/ |access-date=November 23, 2024 |website=managementtools4.wlu.edu |publisher=Washington and Lee University School of Law}} a dramatic increase from its ranking of 332nd in 2003.{{cite web |title=W&L Law Journal Rankings - 2003 |url=https://managementtools4.wlu.edu/LawJournals/ |publisher=Washington and Lee University School of Law |access-date=May 19, 2019}} The journal hosts an annual academic conference of global legal experts with past events covering issues such as autonomous vehicles, quantitative legal analysis, civil rights, and intellectual property.{{cite web |title=Past Symposia |url=https://www.michiganstatelawreview.org/past-symposia-1 |publisher=Michigan State Law Review |access-date=August 25, 2020}} Professor David Blankfein-Tabachnick has served as Faculty Advisor of the journal since his appointment in 2016.{{cite web | url=https://www.law.msu.edu/faculty_staff/profile.php?prof=924 | title=David Blankfein-Tabachnick: Faculty Profile: Michigan State University College of Law }} In 2018, the journal began publishing an annual "Visionary Article Series," which features the work of one prominent legal scholar per year.{{cite web |title=Visionary Article Series |url=https://www.michiganstatelawreview.org/new-page |website=Michigan State Law Review |access-date=August 22, 2020}}

Michigan State Law Review has published the works of numerous legal scholars, such as Robert Post, a legal scholar and former dean of Yale Law School,{{cite journal |last1=Post |first1=Robert |title=The Incomparable Chief Justiceship of William Howard Taft |journal=Michigan State Law Review |date=2019 |issue=Visionary Article Series |pages=1–187}} Mark Lemley, a professor at Stanford Law School and renowned intellectual property scholar,{{Cite web |last=School |first=Stanford Law |title=Mark A. Lemley |url=https://law.stanford.edu/directory/mark-a-lemley/ |access-date=September 19, 2020 |website=Stanford Law School |language=en}} Scott L. Kafker, a justice on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts,{{cite news |last1=Spencer |first1=Buffy |title=Gov. Charlie Baker to nominate Scott Kafker to Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court |url=https://www.masslive.com/news/2017/06/gov_charlie_baker_to_nominate.html |access-date=May 19, 2019 |work=The Republican |publisher=MassLive |date=June 26, 2017}} and Nathalie Martin, professor of consumer and bankruptcy law at University of New Mexico School of Law.{{cite news |last1=Malito |first1=Alessandra |title=What Trump's proposed birthright citizenship order could do to the children of immigrants |url=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-trumps-proposed-birthright-citizenship-order-could-do-to-the-children-of-immigrants-2018-10-31 |access-date=May 19, 2019 |work=MarketWatch |date=November 1, 2018}} The journal has also published the scholarship of Dennis Archer, a former Michigan Supreme Court justice and an alumnus of the school.{{cite journal |last1=Archer |first1=Dennis |title=Prepaid Legal Services . . . An Idea Whose Time Has Come |journal=Detroit College of Law Review |date=1983 |issue=4 |page=1029}}{{cite journal |last1=Archer |first1=Dennis |title=The Importance of Law Reviews to the Judiciary and the Bar |journal=Detroit College of Law Review |date=1991 |issue=1 |page=229}}

History

Prior to the founding of the Michigan State Law Review, the school published a periodical known as The Brief Case. Although this was met with approval, potential authors who were unaffiliated with the school requested to be published. In response, a law review was established. The Michigan State Law Review, then known as the Detroit Law Review, released its first publication in June 1931. At the time, the school was known as the Detroit College of Law. After seven years, the Detroit Law Review ceased publication in 1938, but was brought back for three issues during the 1947–48 academic year. Following another hiatus, the journal was revived in 1975.{{cite web |title=About Michigan State Law Review |url=https://www.michiganstatelawreview.org/history |publisher=Michigan State Law Review |access-date=September 1, 2019}}

In conjunction with the school's integration into Michigan State University, the journal went through a series of name changes: Detroit College of Law Review (1975-1995), Detroit College of Law at Michigan State University Law Review (1995-1999), The Law Review of Michigan State University, Detroit College of Law (1999-2003), Michigan State DCL Law Review (2003-2003), and Michigan State Law Review (2003–present).

== Publications ==

The Michigan State Law Review publishes five issues per year, one of which is a symposium that focuses on a particular legal topic.{{cite web |title=Publisher: Michigan State University College of Law |url=https://home.heinonline.org/titles/Law-Journal-Library/Michigan-State-Law-Review/ |website=Hein Online |access-date=August 22, 2020}} Additionally, the journal publishes an annual "Visionary Article Series" article.

= Symposia =

Each year, one of the Michigan State Law Review{{'s}} issues is a symposium, a legal academic conference that focuses on a particular area of law. In the 2018–2019 academic year, the Michigan State Law Review transitioned to a book symposium format, where authors visit the College of Law and workshop their pieces for the symposium in front of journal members and law school faculty.{{Cite web|title=2018-2019: Distribution, Public Values, and Private Law "Spring Symposium: Connected-Vehicle Techonology and the Law"|url=https://www.michiganstatelawreview.org/past-symposia/2019/11/5/2018-2019-distribution-public-values-and-private-law|access-date=September 19, 2020 |website=Michigan State Law Review|date=5 November 2019 |language=en-US}} In recent years, the annual symposia topics have been as follows:

  • 2013 (Fall): Whether the United States should become a party to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
  • 2014 (Spring): Reflections on Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in conjunction with the Michigan State University College of Education and the University of Missouri–Kansas City
  • 2014 (Fall): Public Domain(s): Law, Generating Knowledge, and Furthering Innovation in the Information Economy
  • 2015 (Spring): Civil rights and persuasive arguments in issues such as same-sex rights, abortion law, racial conflicts, voting rights, and animal rights
  • 2015 (Fall): Quantitative analysis in law
  • 2016 (Spring): Autonomous vehicle technology and the law
  • 2017 (Spring): The emerging legal analytics industry and empirical legal studies
  • 2018 (Spring): Truth and Reconciliation in Post-Ferguson America
  • 2018-2019: The intersection of private values and public law
  • 2019-2020: The intersection of law, language, and technology
  • 2020-2021: Property Ownership and Entitlement: Gender, Religion, & Culture
  • 2021-2022: The Evolving Realm of Soft IP: Copyrights, Trademarks, Trade Secrets, and Publicity Rights
  • 2022-2023: Safe Harbors in the Shadows: Extending 10b5-1 Plans to Cover Shadow Trading

= Visionary Article Series =

In 2018, Michigan State Law Review began publishing a "Visionary Article Series" that aims to "honor a single legal scholar who has had a profound impact on a field of law by publishing a work of his or hers with a special designation." In the inaugural year, the journal published an article on administrative regulation by Richard Revesz, director of the American Law Institute and professor and former dean at the New York University School of Law. In 2019, the series continued with an article by Yale Law School professor and former dean Robert Post that analyzed the chief justiceship of William Howard Taft. In 2020, the journal published an article by the Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School, professor Daniel Markovits. Currently, Michigan State Law Review is in the process of publishing the 2021 Visionary Scholar Article by Eduardo Peñalver, professor and dean of Cornell Law School, which will precede a planned 2022 article by Akhil Amar, professor of law at Yale Law School.

Notable Authors Published

File:Mayor of Detroit Dennis Archer Portrait.jpg (pictured) published multiple articles in the journal when it was known as the Detroit College of Law Review.]]

Michigan State Law Review has published the works of many prominent legal scholars, including:

  • Akhil Amar, professor at Yale Law School who the Supreme Court of the United States has cited to on 45 occasions{{Cite web |title=Akhil Reed Amar - Yale Law School |url=https://law.yale.edu/akhil-reed-amar |access-date=2022-08-21 |website=law.yale.edu}}
  • Dennis Archer, former Michigan Supreme Court justice and former mayor of Detroit, Michigan
  • Anita Bernstein, legal scholar and Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School{{cite journal |last1=Bernstein |first1=Anita |title=Toward More Parsimony and Transparency in the Essentials of Marriage |journal=Michigan State Law Review |date=2011 |issue=1 |pages=83–140}}
  • Anya Bernstein, researcher and professor at the University of Buffalo School of Law{{Cite web |title=2019-2020 Symposium: Law, Language, and Technology |url=https://www.michiganstatelawreview.org/2019-symposium |access-date=September 19, 2020 |website=Michigan State Law Review |language=en-US}}
  • Jim Chen, constitutional law scholar and former dean of the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law{{cite journal |last1=Chen |first1=James |title=Legal Quanta: A Mathematical Romance of Many Dimensions |journal=Michigan State Law Review |date=2016 |issue=2 |pages=313–324}}
  • Deborah Denno, legal scholar and professor at the Fordham University School of Law{{cite journal |last1=Denno |first1=Deborah |title=Courts' Increasing Consideration of Behavioral Genetics Evidence in Criminal Cases: Results of a Longitudinal Study |journal=Michigan State Law Review |date=2011 |pages=967–1047}}
  • Seymour Drescher, historian and professor at the University of Pittsburgh{{cite journal |last1=Drescher |first1=Seymour |last2=Finkelman |first2=Paul |title=The Eternal Problem of Slavery in International Law: Killing the Vampire of Human Culture |journal=Michigan State Law Review |date=2007 |issue=4 |pages=755–804}}
  • Paul Finkelman, legal historian and president of Gratz College
  • Clayton Gillette, professor at NYU School of Law{{Cite web|title=Clayton Gillette - Overview {{!}} NYU School of Law|url=https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.overview&personid=19945|access-date=September 19, 2020 |website=its.law.nyu.edu}}
  • Scott L. Kafker, Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts{{cite journal |last1=Kafker |first1=Scott |title=The Eye of a Constitutional Storm: Pre-Election Review by the State Judiciary of Initiative Amendments to State Constitutions |journal=Michigan State Law Review |date=2012 |issue=4 |pages=1279–1330}}
  • Edmund Kitch, professor at the University of Virginia School of Law{{Cite web|date=July 22, 2016 |title=Edmund W. Kitch|url=https://www.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/ewk/1180712|access-date=September 19, 2020 |website=University of Virginia School of Law|language=en}}
  • Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, associate professor at Stanford Law School{{Cite web|title=Lisa Larrimore Ouellette|url=https://law.stanford.edu/directory/lisa-larrimore-ouellette/|access-date=September 19, 2020 |website=Stanford Law School|language=en}}
  • Mark Lemley, professor of law at Stanford Law School and the Director of the Stanford Law School Program in Law, Science & Technology, as well as a founding partner of the law firm of Durie Tangri LLP
  • Michael A. Livermore, professor at University of Virginia School of Law
  • Julia Mahoney, professor at the University of Virginia School of Law{{Cite web|date=July 22, 2016 |title=Julia D. Mahoney|url=https://www.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/jdm8t/1186864|access-date=September 19, 2020 |website=University of Virginia School of Law|language=en}}
  • Nathalie Martin, legal researcher and professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law{{cite journal |last1=Martin |first1=Nathalie |title=Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due: What We Can Learn from the Banking and Credit Habits of Undocumented Immigrants |journal=Michigan State Law Review |date=2015 |issue=3 |pages=989–1042}}
  • Linda McClain, professor at the Boston University School of Law and former professor at Hofstra Law School{{cite journal |last1=McClain |first1=Linda |title=Federal Family Policy and Family Values From Clinton to Obama, 1992-2012 and Beyond |journal=Michigan State Law Review |date=2013 |issue=5 |pages=1621–1718}}
  • Robert Merges, professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law{{Cite web|title=Robert Merges|url=https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/robert-merges/|access-date=September 19, 2020 |website=Berkeley Law|language=en-US}}
  • Frank Partnoy, legal scholar and professor of the University of California Berkeley School of Law{{cite journal |last1=Partnoy |first1=Frank |title=The Match King, Chapter 9: The Author's Cut |journal=Michigan State Law Review |date=2009 |issue=4 |pages=1207–1238}}
  • Richard J. Pierce, legal scholar and professor at the George Washington University School of Law{{cite journal |last1=Pierce |first1=Richard J. |title=What Factors Can an Agency Consider in Making a Decision |journal=Michigan State Law Review |date=2009 |issue=1 |pages=67–88}}
  • Robert Post, legal scholar and former dean of Yale Law School
  • Richard Revesz, director of the American Law Institute and professor at the New York University School of Law{{cite journal |last1=Revesz |first1=Richard |title=Congress and the Executive: Challenging the Anti-Regulatory Narrative |journal=Michigan State Law Review |date=2018 |issue=Visionary Article Series |pages=795–819}}
  • Duane Rudolph, former visiting assistant professor of law at Peking University School of Transnational Law{{Cite web|title=Duane Rudolph|url=https://stl.pku.edu.cn/faculty/duane-rudolph/|access-date=September 19, 2020 |website=Peking University – School of Transnational Law|language=en-US}}
  • Loren A. Smith, Senior Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Loren A. |title=The End of the Constitution |journal=Detroit College of Law Review |date=1986 |issue=4 |page=1147}}
  • Matthew Stephenson, professor at Harvard Law School{{Cite web|last=School|first=Harvard Law|title=Matthew C. Stephenson {{!}} Harvard Law School|url=https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10845/Stephenson|access-date=September 19, 2020 |language=en}}
  • Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, professor at Fordham University School of Law{{cite journal |last1=Yanisky-Ravid |first1=Shlomit |title=Generating Rembrandt: Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, and Accountability in the 3A Era: The Human-like Authors Are Already Here: A New Model |journal=Michigan State Law Review |date=2017 |issue=4 |pages=659–726}}
  • Edward J. McCaffery, professor at USC Gould School of Law{{cite web | url=https://gould.usc.edu/faculty/?id=237 | title=Edward McCaffery | USC Gould School of Law }}
  • Jens David Ohlin, Dean of Cornell Law School{{cite web | url=https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/jens-ohlin/ | title=Jens David Ohlin }}

Editors-in-Chief

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  • 2011-2012: Amanda Josephine-Hicks Frank{{Cite web|date=2012|title=Amicus Michigan State University College of Law|url=http://www.law.msu.edu/spartan-lawyer/AmicusFall_2012_final.pdf}}
  • 2012-2013: Lisa Colomba Ferro Hackett{{Cite journal|last=Terry|first=Laurel|date=2012|title=Preserving the Rule of Law in the 21st Century: The Importance of Infrastructure and the Need to Create a Global Lawyer Regulatory Umbrella Organization |url=https://ideas.dickinsonlaw.psu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1178&context=fac-works|journal=Michigan State Law Review|volume=2012}}
  • 2013-2014: Rachael Roseman{{Cite web|title=Rachael M. Roseman {{!}} Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge|url=http://www.shrr.com/our-people/rachael-m-roseman/#:~:text=While%20in%20law%20school,%20Rachael,including%20the%20Student%20Bar%20Association.|access-date=September 19, 2020 |website=www.shrr.com}}
  • 2014-2015: Leah Jurss{{Cite web|title=Leah Jurss|url=https://hogenadams.com/team/leah-jurss/|access-date=September 19, 2020 |language=en-US}}
  • 2015-2016: Jennifer Muse{{Cite web|title=Jennifer L. Muse|url=https://www.honigman.com/attorneys-jennifer-l-muse.html|access-date=September 18, 2020 |website=www.honigman.com}}
  • 2016-2017: Christopher Kozak{{Cite web|title=Christopher E. Kozak|url=https://www.psrb.com/professional/christopher-e-kozak/|access-date=September 19, 2020 |website=Plews Shadley Racher & Braun|language=en-US}}
  • 2017-2018: Andrew Newton{{Cite web|title=Andrew Newton|url=https://www.michiganstatelawreview.org/andrew-newton|access-date=September 19, 2020 |website=Michigan State Law Review|language=en-US}}
  • 2018-2019: Celia Kaechele{{Cite web|title=Celia Kaechele|url=https://www.michiganstatelawreview.org/celia-kaechele|access-date=September 18, 2020 |website=Michigan State Law Review|language=en-US}}
  • 2019-2020: Emily Sosolik{{Cite web|title=Emily Sosolik|url=https://www.michiganstatelawreview.org/emily-sosolik|access-date=September 18, 2020 |website=Michigan State Law Review|language=en-US}}
  • 2020-2021: Kylee Nemetz{{Cite web|title=Masthead|url=https://www.michiganstatelawreview.org/masthead|access-date=September 18, 2020 |website=Michigan State Law Review|language=en-US}}
  • 2021-2022: Brandon Paul Cross{{Cite web |title=Masthead Volume 2021 |url=https://www.michiganstatelawreview.org/masthead-vol2021 |access-date=2022-03-01 |website=Michigan State Law Review |language=en-US}}
  • 2022-2023: Hugh J. Theut{{cite web | url=https://www.law.msu.edu/news/2022/hugh-theut-law-review.html | title=Hugh Theut Appointed Incoming Editor-in-Chief of Michigan State Law Review: Michigan State University College of Law }}
  • 2023-2024: Katrin Kelley
  • 2024-2025: Anna Marie Maxwell
  • 2025-2026: Diana Ramos

References

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External links

  • [https://www.michiganstatelawreview.org/ Official website]
  • [https://digitalcommons.law.msu.edu/lr/ Archive of published issues] at Digital Commons

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