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. The National Jurist recently ranked OLR 69th out of more than 1,100 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. In recent years, OLR has published articles based on such topics as the Law and Religion in America and constitutional questions accompanying the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and the fortieth anniversary of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. In 2009, OLR will publish a special symposium issue to honor the sesquicentennial of Oregon’s Constitution.
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 Karen Dybis, 100 Best Law Reviews, NAT’L JURIST, Feb. 2008, at 22, 24, available at http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/cypress/nationaljurist0208/index.php?startid=22.
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)).