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Welcome to Oregon Law Review
Since its inception in 1921 as the first law review in the Northwest, Oregon Law Review continues to share the lead in the nation's legal discourse. OLR has been consistently ranked among the nation's top 50 most-cited general-interest legal journals.1
As the second oldest continuously published law review in the West, OLR has published more than 300 separate issues covering topics of state, national and international significance. Our mission includes contributing to contemporary scholarship by publishing articles from recognized scholars, and providing extraordinary member students with a national stage for their legal writings.
OLR has a long tradition of addressing important social questions. In its first volume, OLR's editor-in-chief criticized the legal profession for failing to measure up to the needs of the poor and advocated the establishment of organized legal aid to remedy the problem.2 OLR articles, moreover, remain as important scholarship; the Oregon Supreme Court recently cited another article in OLR's first volume.3
OLR also has a national reputation for timely publishing of leading experts' work on important and controversial issues. Last year, OLR published scholarly work addressing constitutional questions accompanying the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and the fortieth anniversary of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. This year, OLR will publish articles based on our symposium on the topic of Law and Religion in America entitled "Disentangling Church and State: Have the Courts Done Enough" held in the spring of 2006.
OLR invites an open exchange of ideas and accepts submissions representing a diverse body of topics and theoretical approaches. If you are interested in having your work published in OLR, please contact our Articles Editors by clicking on the Submissions link.
1 See Washington & Lee Law School, Most-Cited Legal Periodicals, at http://law.wlu.edu/library/research/lawrevs/mostcited.asp. Rankings based on the number of citations to journal volumes published in the preceding eight years. See id., at http://law.wlu.edu/library/mostcited/method.asp#methodology. From the options at the top of the page, select "Journals 2004", de-select "Specialized" and click on the "Submit" button. Rank in prior years can be determined by selecting other journal years. Impact Ranking can be found by clicking on the "Impact 1997-2004" column.
2 Thomas A. Larremore, Portland and Legal Aid, 1 Or. L. Rev. 1, 2 (1921).
3 Yancy v. Shatzer, 97 P.3d 1161, 1166 n.3 (Or. 2004) (citing Lawrence T. Harris, History of the Oregon Code (pts. 1 & 2), 1 Or. L. Rev. 129, 1 Or. L. Rev. 184 (1922)).
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