Virginia Law & Business Review
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The Virginia Law & Business Review is a premier journal
Law review
A law review is a scholarly journal focusing on legal issues, normally published by an organization of students at a law school or through a bar association...

 of business law scholarship that is published three times per year by students of the University of Virginia School of Law
University of Virginia School of Law
The University of Virginia School of Law was founded in Charlottesville in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson as one of the original subjects taught at his "academical village," the University of Virginia. The law school maintains an enrollment of approximately 1,100 students in its initial degree program...

. The student-editors are members of the Virginia Law & Business Review Association, a not-for-profit corporation chartered in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Content

The Virginia Law & Business Review publishes articles, essays, comments, and book reviews from business law professors, practitioners, judges, and law clerks on business law subjects. In addition, the journal publishes student notes from University of Virginia students. Articles address antitrust, bankruptcy, commercial law, corporations, corporate governance, employment law, mergers & acquisitions, securities regulation, secured transactions, takeover litigation, venture capital, and other corporate law subjects.

Prominent authors that have published in the journal include: William W. Bratton (Georgetown University Law Center), Howell E. Jackson (Harvard Law School), Jonathan R. Macey
Jonathan R. Macey
Jonathan R. Macey is Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance and Securities Law at Yale Law School.-Biography:Professor Macey earned his B.A. from Harvard University in 1977, and his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1982, where he was Article and Book Review editor of the Yale Law...

 (Yale Law School), Larry E. Ribstein (University of Illinois College of Law), Lynn A. Stout (UCLA School of Law), Myron T. Steele (Chief Justice, Delaware Supreme Court), E. Norman Veasey (former Chief Justice, Delaware Supreme Court), John W. Warner (former U.S. Senator), and Mark R. Warner (U.S. Senator), among others.

Circulation

The Virginia Law & Business Review consistently ranks among the premier journals of business law scholarship, and its current hard-copy circulation exceeds 1,000 copies per issue. In addition, the journal is accessible on its website and on electronic databases such as LexisNexis
LexisNexis
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 and Westlaw
Westlaw
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. The journal's official legal periodical abbreviation is Va. L. & Bus. Rev.

Symposia

Each spring, the Virginia Law & Business Review sponsors an academic symposium held at the University of Virginia School of Law. Topics of recent symposia have included: the impact of institutional investors on capital markets, U.S. competitiveness in the world economy, and the global credit crisis of 2009.

Notable speakers at recent symposia have included: William W. Bratton (Georgetown University Law Center), Robert F. Bruner (University of Virginia Darden School of Business), Donald C. Langevoort (Georgetown University Law Center), Paul G. Mahoney (University of Virginia School of Law), and Randall S. Thomas (Vanderbilt University Law School), among others.

Membership

The Virginia Law & Business Review selects its members based on the results of a legal writing competition held each spring and fall at the University of Virginia School of Law. The competition consists of an editing exercise and a writing exercise to test each applicant’s knowledge of English grammar and legal citation rules and conventions. There is not a fixed number of new members accepted each year; recent classes have ranged from about 30 to 40 new student-editors per year.

Founding

The Virginia Law & Business Review was founded by John B. Esterhay of University of Virginia Law School Class of 2006 and the student-editors of the journal’s inaugural managing board. The journal was formed in 2005. It was approved by the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Law in 2005. Its first issue was published in 2006.

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