| Discipline | Jurisprudence |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Alexandria (Alexa) Iraheta Sousa[1] |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1901–present |
| Publisher | Columbia Law Review Association, Inc.[2] (United States) |
| Frequency | 8/year |
| Yes | |
| 2.224 (2018) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| Bluebook | Colum. L. Rev. |
| ISO 4 | Columbia Law Rev. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| CODEN | COLRAO |
| ISSN | 0010-1958 (print) 1945-2268 (web) |
| LCCN | 29-10105 |
| JSTOR | 00101958 |
| OCLC no. | 01564231 |
| Links | |
TheColumbia Law Review is alaw review edited and published by students atColumbia Law School. The journal publishes scholarly articles,essays, and student notes.
It was established in 1901 by Joseph E. Corrigan, who served as the review's first editor-in-chief, andJohn M. Woolsey, who served as its first secretary.[3] TheColumbia Law Review is one of four law reviews that publishes theBluebook.
TheColumbia Law Review represents the school's third attempt at a student-run law periodical. In 1885, theColumbia Jurist was founded by a group of six students but ceased publication in 1887.[4] Despite its short run, theJurist is credited with partially inspiring the creation of theHarvard Law Review, which began publication a short time later.[5]
The second journal, theColumbia Law Times was founded in 1887 and closed down in 1893 due to lack of revenue.[6]
Publication of the currentColumbia Law Review began in 1901,[7] making it the fifth oldest surviving law review in the US. DeanWilliam Keener took an active involvement during its founding to help ensure its longevity.[8]
In June 2024, the journal published an article byRabea Eghbariah, a Palestinian human rights lawyer, titled "Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept", which criticizes the "brutally sophisticated regime of oppression" ofPalestinians "[a]crossIsrael,the West Bank,the Gaza Strip,Jerusalem, andrefugee camps" by theIsraeli government. The article aims at creating an international legal framework for theNakba similar togenocide andapartheid.[9][10] The article also refers to the Arabic term "al-Nakba," which "is often used ... to refer to the ruinous establishment of Israel in Palestine."[11]
The same day that the article was published, theReview's board of directors shut down theReview's website and replaced it with a message stating that the site was "under maintenance". Later that day, theReview's student editors published the article on a publicly accessible web site, as a free PDF file.[12] Two days after the website was shut down, the editors voted to go on strike. The next day, the board of directors restored theReview's website, including Eghbariah's article, but added a statement explaining that the website was shut-down due to the "secretive" nature of the editorial process.[13] The editorial board disagreed with that assertion and stated that the editorial process was comparable to that used for all other articles.[14][15]
Among United States law journals as of 2025, Columbia Law Review is ranked #1 byWashington and Lee University Law School[16] and as of 2023, #4 by a professor at theUniversity of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.[17]
TheColumbia Law Review was the top-cited law journal during the 2018Supreme Court term.[18]
According to theJournal Citation Reports theColumbia Law Review had a 2009impact factor of 3.610, ranking it third out of 116 journals in the category "Law".[19][needs update] In 2007, theColumbia Law Review ranked second for submissions and citations within the legal academic community, afterHarvard Law Review.[20][needs update]
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Notable alumni of theColumbia Law Review include:
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