Founded in 1952, the American University Law Review is the oldest and largest student-run publication at the Washington College of Law and publishes six issues each year. The Law Review is consistently ranked among the top fifty law journals in the nation and is the most-cited journal at WCL, according to the Washington and Lee University Law Library.
The Law Review receives approximately 2,500 submissions annually and publishes a wide range of legal scholarship from professors, judges, practicing lawyers, and renowned legal thinkers. The Law Review has published articles or commentary by Supreme Court Chief Justices Warren Burger, William Rehnquist, and Earl Warren, as well as Associate Justices Hugo Black, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Arthur Goldberg. The Law Review has also published articles or commentary by prominent legal figures such as Stephen Bright, Paul Butler, Erwin Chemerinsky, Tom Goldstein, Paul Kamenar, Judge Paul Michel, Judge Stephen Reinhardt, Nadine Strossen, and Laurence Tribe.
The Law Review is the only journal in the nation to publish an annual issue dedicated to decisions of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit regarding patent law, international trade, government contracts, veterans affairs, and trademark law. A member of the National Conference of International Law Journals, the Law Review is also indexed in LexisNexis, Westlaw, HeinOnline, the Index to Legal Periodicals, and the Resource Index/Current Law Index. Each edition of the Law Review is distributed nationally and abroad to law school libraries, private law firms, public legal organizations, and individual subscribers.
Current Issue: Volume 70, Issue 4 (2025)
Remarks
A New Chapter in Veterans Law
The Honorable Margaret Bartley
Articles
The Trade Secrecy Standard for Patent Prior Art
Camilla A. Hrdy and Sharon K. Sandeen
What is "Likely to be Confusing": About Trademark Law: Reconsidering the Disparity Between Registration and Use
Lorelei D. Ritchie
Area Summaries
Review of Veterans Law Decisions of the Federal Circuit, 2020 Edition
Angela K. Drake, Yelena Duterte, and Stacey-Rae Simcox
Year in Review: The Federal Circuit's 2020 Government Contract Law Decisions
The Honorable Jeri Kaylene Somers, Jedidiah Blake II, Matthew Gurr, and Benjamin Phillips III