Published Issues

You will find below an archive of recently published New York Law School Law Review issues. Volume 53 (complete volume forthcoming), Volumes 52-48, and Volume 46 are available directly through our website below. The rest of the Law Review archive, Volume 47 and Volumes 45-1, is available by clicking the following link. Volumes 47-1 Downloadable Index

Volume 54 (2009-2010)
Volume 53 (2008-2009)
Volume 52 (2007-2008)
Volume 51 (2006-2007)
Volume 50 (2005-2006)
Volume 49 (2004-2005)
Volume 48 (2003-2004)
Volume 46 (2002-2003)
Volumes 47-1 (1955-2002)
 

Volume 54 (2009-2010)
New York Law School Law Journal Alumni Issue, 54:1
This issue presents the scholarship of New York Law School alumni who specialize in a wide array of practice areas. The papers, first presented at a Symposium held at the school in the fall of 2008, discuss issues of international, comparative, constitutional, and corporate law, as well the challenges faced by modern day legal practitioners.

Submissions Issue, 54:2
This issue features scholarship submitted to the New York Law School Law Review by various authors. Articles feature discussions of a variety of topics including brownfield redevelopment, negotiating an author-publisher contract, and recognition of same-sex marriage in New York. This issue also includes a speech by Senior United States District Judge Jack B. Weinstein given at the Fifth Sidney Shainwald Lecture, delivered at New York Law School on April 29, 2009.

Fear, Fraud, and the Future of Financial Regulation, 54:3
This issue features articles from leading corporate law scholars presenting their ideas for what the long-term implications of the 2007-08 financial crisis are, and what steps should be taken to both ameliorate its effects and prevent future crises of the same magnitude.

Locating the School-to-Prison Pipeline, 54:4
This issue will feature scholarship from the participants of a symposium to be held at New York Law School in March 2009. Panelists will address the problematic trend in New York City public schools of overly harsh disciplinary policies that push students out of the classroom and into the juvenile justice system. This issue will include scholarship from current civil rights lawyers as well as education policy experts.
 

Volume 53 (2008-2009)
The Perspectives on Mental Disability Law, 53:1
The Perspectives on Mental Disability Law issue features the scholarship of participants in the International Academy of Law and Mental Health’s 30th Annual Congress which took place in Padua, Italy. Authors include legal practitioners, academics, mental health care advocates, and professionals, discussing a wide array of topics such as the role of counsel in the Protection and Advocacy system, the "framing" of sex offenders in statutes like Megan’s Law, and the ramifications of involuntary commitment on the rights of patients.

The Community Reinvestment Act: Still Relevant at 30?, 53:2
The Community Reinvestment Act: Still Relevant at 30? issue features scholarship from the participants of a symposium held at New York Law School in October 2007. Symposium panelists examined whether the Community Reinvestment Act is a relic of a bygone era or whether its protections can (and should) be extended to continue the democratization of capital into the twenty-first century. Among the papers is an article calling on Congress to enact the CRA Modernization Act of 2007 as well as a student-written article arguing for courts not to limit the use of FOIA requests to obtain information regarding a bank's lending and investment practices.

Corporation Counsel: A History of the New York City Law Department, 53:3
The Corporation Counsel: A History of the New York CIty Law Department issue features selected papers and remarks from the symposium on the New York City Law Department held at New York Law School in February 2008. The symposium celebrated the history and accomplishments of the Law Department. Among the papers is number of reflective pieces from nearly every living Corporation Counsel, as well as adapted remarks from Symposium's keynote speaker, former New York City mayor, Edward Koch.

Faculty Presentation Day Issue, 53:4
The Faculty Presentation Day issue showcases works in progress and scholarly interests of many members of the New York Law School faculty. Every two years, members of faculty give brief presentations and participate in panel discussions regarding research in their areas of interest. This volume covers a wide range of topics including developments in legal education, the regulation of emerging technologies, First Amendment questions regarding indecent speech, and the subprime mortgage crisis.

Volume 52 (2007-2008)
Submissions Issue, 52:1
Submissions Issue is comprised of various works submitted to the New York Law School Law Review. It features an article by The Honorable Harold Baer, Jr. with Arminda Bepko entitled A Necessary and Proper Role for Federal Courts in Prison Reform: The Benjamin v. Malcom Consent Decrees. The issue also includes selected student-written notes and case comments.

The LeGaL Foundation LGBT Law Conference, 52:2
The LeGaL Foundation LGBT Law Conference issue features papers from presenters at the LeGal Law Conference held at New York Law School in Novemeber 2006. The conference featured New York/New Jersey practitioners and professors who specialize in all areas of law impacting the LGBT community, including: property, estates, health, employment discrimination and civil rights litigation. The conference was co-sponsored by the LeGal Foundation and the New York Law School Stonewall Students' Association. 

Legal Scholarship, 52:3 
The Legal Scholarship issue is comprised of selected papers, student-written pieces, and remarks adapted from the symposium held at New York Law School in February 2007. Among the papers is an article on the difficulty of writing about the law for the layperson as well as an essay in defense of  law reviews. This issue also includes adapted remarks of the Symposium's keynote speaker, John Osborn, author of The Paper Chase. 

Corporate Governance Five Years After Sarbanes-Oxley: Is There Real Change?, 52:4
The Corporate Governance Five Years After Sarbanes-Oxley: Is There Real Change? issue features scholarship from the participants of a symposium held in April 2007 at New York Law School, which examined the implications of Sarbanes-Oxley five years after its enactment. The scholarship examines topics such as social defense for Sarbanes-Oxley, executive compensation, federal versus state corporate governance and CEO succession.
    
Volume 51 (2006-2007)
Seeking Review: Immigration Law and Federal Court Jurisdiction 51:1
This symposia issue examined the effects of the limitations placed on judicial review of immigration decisions since the passage of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, and the regulations of the Board of Immigration Appeals which were streamlined in 2002. It is comprised of selected papers presented by government leaders, scholars, activists, members of the judiciary, and other leaders in the field of immigration law and policy at a live symposium held at New York Law School in September 2005. The symposium, organized by the Justice Action Center of New York Law School, also explored legislative reform of administrative and judicial review of removals.

Plaintiffs' Bar 51:2
Plaintiffs' Bar is comprised of selected papers from a symposium that was held in March 2006 at New York Law School addressing a variety of issues facing members of the plaintiffs' bar, including: attacks on the plaintiffs' bar, litigation, and lawyers generally; formation and development of a distinctive plaintiffs' bar; engaging defense counsel; lawyering on behalf of plaintiffs in diverse practice areas, and more.  This symposium was sponsored by the Center of Professional Values and Practice at New York Law School. 

Perspectives on Post-Conflict Constitutionalism, 51:3 
Perspectives on Post-Conflict Constitutionalism explores globalism, conflict and the rule of law from a comparative and interdisciplinary law and politics perspective. In this issue, the authors examine and discuss the potential for constitutionalism and constitution-building advancing the rule of law in post-conflict situations. In particular, the authors in this issue explore the potential of the constitutional projects launched in Afghanistan and Iraq through the diverse lenses of their particular interdisciplinary perspectives and expertise.

Faculty Presentation Day, 51:4
Faculty Presentation Day celebrates a New York Law School tradition where faculty members share their knowledge through presentations and panel discussions with other faculty members and students. The faculty essays in this volume address a wide range of issues from legal education, to international law, to law and technology, literature and history, to legal questions in fields as diverse as tax, finance, family law, criminal law, and telecommunications.
 

Volume 50 (2005-2006)
International and Comparative Perspectives on Defamation, Free Speech, and Privacy 50:1
This issue explores defamation law in the United States, Canada, the European Union, and elsewhere. Topics include the origins of the Public Figure Doctrine in First Amendment defamation law, reforming the crime of libel, and the relationship among defamation, free speech, and democratic governance.   The articles were originally presented at a symposium that was held at New York Law School on December 4, 2004, and organized by Russell L. Weaver.  It also features a compelling article describing the drafting of Iraq’s Transitional Administrative Law, by His Excellency Feisal Al-Istrabadi, Iraq’s Alternate Permanent Representative to the United Nations.  View articles.   

Next Wave Organizing Symposium 50:2
This issue examines how workers organize in the twenty-first century and how new tools and techniques can be harnessed to improve labor organizing. It features articles presented at a live symposium that took place at New York Law School in January 2005, as well as the stories of several labor organizations that are using innovative techniques to serve the legal needs of various constituencies. The symposium was organized by New York Law School’s Justice Action Center, Institute for Information Law and Policy, and Labor and Employment Law Program.  View articles.

Federal Courts from Warren to Rehnquist and Beyond: Federalism as Theory, Doctrine, Practice, and Instrument 50:3
This issue features articles reflecting on federalism under the Warren and Rehnquist Courts, written by prominent legal scholars, including Edward A. Purcell, Jr., (New York Law School), Lynn Baker (Texas), Erwin Chemerinsky (Duke), Jesse Choper (Berkeley), and Mary Anne Case (Chicago).  These articles were presented as papers at the 2005 conference of the AALS’s Federal Courts section, of which New York Law School’s Professor Edward A. Purcell, Jr., is the chair.

Llewellyn's Dueling Canons and A Corporate Analysis of Public Authority Administration 50:4
This issue features two articles.  One is a critique of Karl N. Llewellyn's famous canons of construction, in which he paired canons that appeared to lead to opposite and directly conflicting interpretations.  New York Law School Professor Michael Sinclair embarked on an ambitious project to examine each of Llewellyn's twenty-eight pairs to either determine the validity of Llewellyn's position or refute it by reconciling the canons in a given pair.  This article examines the first seven pairs.  In the other article, Jonathan Rosenbloom examines the growth of public authorities, assesses their performance against a set of private corporate criteria, and proposes a new way of thinking about the distribution and performance of public services.

Volume 49 (2004-2005)
State of Play 49:1
This is the first collected exploration of law and virtual worlds for the wider legal and scholarly community.  This special symposium issue grows out of the first annual State of Play conference held at New York Law School on November 13-15, 2003.  The conference brought together leading scholars and practitioners with game designers and software industry professionals to explore the new frontier of cyberspace: the virtual world.  View articles.

Faculty Presentation Day II 2004 49:2
This issue is a compilation of original articles presented by New York Law School Faculty at the law school’s second annual Faculty Presentation Day, addressing issues in areas such as legal education, law and the humanities, tax, commerce, segregation, criminal law, sexuality, legal writing, and even fiction.  View articles.

Evidence, Institutional Reform Litigation, Commuters and the Dormant Commerce Clause 49:3
Articles include a comprehensive survey of standards of evidence in administrative proceedings, a look at implications of the Supreme Court’s institutional reform litigation jurisprudence, and whether a commuter’s choice of residence implicates the Dormant Commerce Clause.  View articles.  

Brown is Dead?  Long Live Brown! 49:4 
This symposium issue examines the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education on the occasion of the decision’s 50th anniversary, including articles by Gary Orfield, Derrick A. Bell, Jr., Dennis Parker, Denise Morgan, and others.  View articles.  

Volume 48 (2003-2004)
Criminal Defense in the Age of Terrorism 48:1 & 48:2
The New York Law School Center for Professional Values and Practice sponsored this symposium devoted to criminal defense in the age of terrorism.  No lawyers are under greater pressure than criminal defense attorneys charged with representing accused terrorists. The federal government is a formidable foe in run-of-the-mill criminal cases; it is a truly awesome opponent in terrorism prosecutions because of the fervor, ingenuity, and resources it brings to these cases. This issue examined the vital role played by defense lawyers representing accused terrorists who face deep hostility from a public whose foremost priority is winning the war on terrorism.

In Memoriam, W. Bernard Richland (1909-2003) 48:3
This issue featured articles which highlight the life and career of W. Bernard Richland.  Among the articles are speeches and tributes written by Ross Sandler, the Honorable Jose A. Cabranes, the Honorable Jack B. Weinstein, and the Honorable Nina Gershon.  This issue also includes the address of W. Bernard Richland before the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers and World Conference on Law at Washington, D.C.

VOLUME 48, NUMBER 4
This issue features an article by Kris Franklin pointing out the effects of the decision in Lawrence v. Texas and an article by Barry Crown which examines the proposed new legal consultation document on civil partnership in England and Wales.  This issue also contains the keynote speeches of Seth D. Harris, the Honorable Tony Coelho, and Sydney M. Cone, III.

Volume 46 (2002-2003)
Judge Jon. O. Newman: A Symposium Celebrating his Thirty Years on the Federal Bench 46:1 & 46:2
This issue honored Judge Jon O. Newman's service to the United States Federal Court.  This special issue is a compilation of the proceedings of the 2002 Law Review Symposium, with additional scholarly contributions. The Symposium was organized by the New York Law School Law Review, and directed by Professor Paul R. Dubinsky and other former and current law clerks of Judge Newman.  This issue also reflected on the future of copyright, federal jurisdiction, and international law.

Reflecting on the Legal Issues of our Times: New York Law School Faculty Presentation Day 46:3 & 46:4
The issue is a compilation of scholarly contributions originating from New York Law School's Faculty Presentation Day on April 3, 2002, and is a memorialization of the collaborative and scholarly discussion of that day.  Some of the articles include topics such as Changes in the Law Since 9/11, Portraits of Grief: Reflecting on The New York Times 9/11 Obituaries Through a Legal Lens, Economic Justice, and Dispute Resolution.