History of the Dickinson Law Review

The Dickinson Law Review is a student-run journal that serves the legal community by publishing articles and commentary on timely legal topics. Each year, our three print issues contain articles by professors, judges, and practitioners, reviews of important recent books from recognized experts, and student-authored comments.

The Dickinson Law Review is steeped in tradition. One of its traditions is innovation. The journal is credited with being the first law review in the nation to have a woman editor, Julia Radle, an 1899 graduate of the Dickinson School of Law.

Editors select, edit, and publish articles and comments at the forefront of legal scholarship. Each editor is trained to evaluate submissions critically and comprehensively. Through our team-editing process, editors work closely with authors to address each piece’s analysis, writing style, research, organization, and citation accuracy. 

Each year, the Dickinson Law Review symposium brings stakeholders in the legal community, including practitioners, academics, jurists, and law students, together for scholarly dialogue about forthcoming and recently published articles.

The Dickinson Law Review also affords its editors two valuable educational experiences: It assists each member in preparing an original work of scholarship suitable for professional publication and provides training in the performance of all the editorial and administrative tasks associated with publishing a professional legal journal. 

Since the Dickinson Law Review’s founding, more than 127 editorial boards have continued the journal’s long-standing tradition of excellence and mission to disseminate high-quality legal scholarship to the world.