Yale Law & Policy Review
Encyclopedia
The Yale Law & Policy Review is a biannual student-run law review
at the Yale Law School
covering the intersection of law and policy. Its Bluebook
abbreviation is Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. It is the highest ranked specialized law journal at Yale and the seventh highest ranked secondary journal in the country.
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...
at the Yale Law School
Yale Law School
Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...
covering the intersection of law and policy. Its Bluebook
Bluebook
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, a style guide, prescribes the most widely used legal citation system in the United States. The Bluebook is compiled by the Harvard Law Review Association, the Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal....
abbreviation is Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. It is the highest ranked specialized law journal at Yale and the seventh highest ranked secondary journal in the country.
Notable articles
Some of the most cited articles published by the Yale Law & Policy Review include:Notable alumni
- Emily BazelonEmily BazelonEmily Bazelon is an American journalist, senior editor for online magazine Slate, and a senior research fellow at Yale Law School. Her work as a writer focuses on law, abortion, and family issues.-Journalism career:...
, journalist at SlateSlate (magazine)Slate is a US-based English language online current affairs and culture magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft as part of MSN. On 21 December 2004 it was purchased by the Washington Post Company...
. (Appears in Vol. 16:1.) - Steven CollotonSteven CollotonSteven Michael Colloton is a federal judge who has served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit since 2003.- Family :...
, federal judge on the 8th Circuit. (Appears in Vol. 4:2.) - Dawn JohnsenDawn JohnsenDawn Elizabeth Johnsen is an American lawyer and professor of Constitutional law, who is currently on the faculty at Maurer School of Law at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana...
, famous former Office of Legal CounselOffice of Legal CounselThe Office of Legal Counsel is an office in the United States Department of Justice that assists the Attorney General in his function as legal adviser to the President and all executive branch agencies.-History:...
employee, professor at Indiana University School of Law. (Appears in Vol. 2:1.) - David LatDavid LatDavid B. Lat is an American blogger and a former federal prosecutor. He is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law, a blog about law firms and the legal profession....
, founder and managing editor of Above the Law (blog)Above the Law (blog)AboveTheLaw.com is a law gossip blog which circulates rumors primarily about large commercial law firms . Above the Law publishes the rumored salaries and bonuses at many of these large firms...
. - Adam LiptakAdam LiptakAdam Liptak is an American journalist, lawyer and instructor in journalism. He is currently the Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times. In July 2008, Liptak was assigned to take over coverage of the U.S...
, current Supreme CourtSupreme courtA supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of many legal jurisdictions. Other descriptions for such courts include court of last resort, instance court, judgment court, high court, or apex court...
correspondent for the New York Times. (Appears in Vol. 4:2.) - Goodwin LiuGoodwin LiuGoodwin Hon Liu is an American lawyer and educator who currently serves as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California. Before his appointment by California Governor Jerry Brown, Liu was Associate Dean and Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law...
, Justice of the Supreme Court of California, former Berkeley Law professor and nominee to the 9th Circuit. (Appears in Vol. 13:2.) - Reva SiegelReva SiegelReva Siegel is the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Professor Siegel’s writing draws on legal history to explore questions of law and inequality, and to analyze how courts interact with representative government and popular movements in interpreting the Constitution...
, Yale Law SchoolYale Law SchoolYale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...
professor. - Gene SperlingGene SperlingGene B. Sperling is an American lawyer and political figure, currently serving as a Counselor to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. He is also on the staff of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he serves as Senior Fellow for Economic Policy and Director of the Center on Universal Education. He...
, current counselor to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, former economic advisor to Hillary Clinton. (Appears in Vol. 1:2.)
External links
- Inter Alia, the journal's "Online Companion"