| Discipline | Law |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1948–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | 6 issues, January to June |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| Bluebook | Stan. L. Rev. |
| ISO 4 | Stanf. Law Rev. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 0038-9765 (print) 1939-8581 (web) |
| LCCN | 52004133 |
| JSTOR | 00389765 |
| OCLC no. | 42821730 |
| Links | |
TheStanford Law Review (SLR) is alegal journal produced independently byStanford Law School students. The journal was established in 1948 with futureU.S. Secretary of StateWarren Christopher as its first president. The review produces six issues yearly between January and June and regularly publishes short-form content on theStanford Law Review Online.[1]
TheStanford Law Review selects members based on a competitive exercise that tests candidates on their editing skills and legal writing ability. There is not a firm number of accepted candidates each year; recent classes of new editors have ranged from about 40 to 45. The candidate exercise is distributed to candidates late in their first year at the law school. Transfer students are also eligible for admission through the same process.
Among United States law journals, Stanford Law Review is ranked third byWashington and Lee University Law School[2] and third by a professor at theUniversity of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.[3]
The review'seditorial board has a president, who is effectively theeditor-in-chief of the publication. Notable past Presidents includeWarren Christopher (1949),[4]Brooksley Born (1964),Raymond C. Fisher (1966),David F. Levi (1980),Paul G. Cassell (1984),[5] andTony West (1990).[6] Other notable alumni areWilliam Rehnquist,[7]Sandra Day O'Connor,[8]Shirley Hufstedler,[9]Joshua Bolten,Carlos Watson,Geoffrey Berman,[10]Steven Menashi, andPeter Thiel.[11]
Two of the most notable alumni members of theStanford Law Review, former Supreme Court JusticesSandra Day O'Connor andWilliam Rehnquist, attendedStanford Law School at the same time and graduated together with the class of 1952.[12] The two future Supreme Court Justices became very close friends and even dated for a short time. In 2019, author Evan Thomas publishedA Biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, in which he presented information that he obtained from Justice O'Connor's personal documents, kept closed at theLibrary of Congress, that in the spring of 1952, Rehnquist wrote a letter to O'Connor asking her to marry him. O'Connor turned down Rehnquist's proposal because she was then dating her future husband, John O'Connor.[13] The two had publicly stated that they dated for a short time during law school but Rehnquist's marriage proposal to O'Connor had been kept a secret.[14] The two served on the Supreme Court together from 1981 until Rehnquist's death in 2005.[15]
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