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The University of Pittsburgh Law Review was founded in 1934 with a staff of nine and published Volume 1 in March of 1935. The journal quickly flourished. In the 1935-36 academic year, the Law Review staff doubled and the journal instituted its current quarterly format. Interestingly, the Law Review suspended its operations between 1941 to 1947, during the Second World War. Publication has remained uninterrupted since 1947.
The Law Review is a student-run journal of legal scholarship that publishes quarterly. Our goal is to contribute to the legal community by featuring pertinent articles that highlight current legal issues and changes in the law. The Law Review publishes articles, comments, book reviews, and notes on a wide variety of topics, including constitutional law, securities regulation, criminal procedure, family law, international law, and jurisprudence.
The Law Review has also hosted several symposia, bringing scholars into one setting for lively debate and discussion of key legal topics. Most recently, the Law Review and the SEC Historical Society hosted business leaders, corporate & securities law scholars, and SEC Commissioner Troy Paredes as keynote speaker at its symposium examining the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the Securities & Exchange Commission. Scholarly work from this symposium will be published in Volume 71. Volume 69 centered on a symposium entitled “Lawyers and Disability,” which featured articles by some of the most recognized scholars in the field of disability law. In Volume 66, we featured a symposium in honor of the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education.
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