First published in 1906, the Northwestern University Law Review is a student-operated journal that publishes six issues of high-quality, general legal scholarship each year. Student editors make the editorial and organizational decisions and select articles submitted by professors, judges, and practitioners, as well as student pieces.
Current Issue: Volume 112, Issue 6
"A Fear of Too Much Justice"?: Equal Protection and the Social Sciences Thirty Years After McCleskey v. Kemp Symposium
Essays
Equal Protection and the Social Sciences Thirty Years After McCleskey v. Kemp
Destiny Peery and Osagie K. Obasogie
What Can Brown Do for You?: Addressing McCleskey v. Kemp as a Flawed Standard for Measuring the Constitutionally Significant Risk of Race Bias
Mario L. Barnes and Erwin Chemerinsky
Combating Discrimination Against the Formerly Incarcerated in the Labor Market
Ifeoma Ajunwa and Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Challenging the Rhetorical Gag and TRAP: Reproductive Capacities, Rights, and the Helms Amendment
Michele Goodwin
Equal Protection and White Supremacy
Paul Butler
The Futile Fourth Amendment: Understanding Police Excessive Force Doctrine Through an Empirical Assessment of Graham v. Connor
Osagie K. Obasogie and Zachary Newman
"Our Taxes Are Too Damn High": Institutional Racism, Property Tax Assessment, and the Fair Housing Act
Bernadette Atuahene
"Playing It Safe" with Empirical Evidence: Selective Use of Social Science in Supreme Court Cases About Racial Justice and Marriage Equality
Russell K. Robinson and David M. Frost
Diversity Entitlement: Does Diversity-Benefits Ideology Undermine Inclusion?
Kyneshawau Hurd and Victoria C. Plaut
McCleskey v. Kemp: Field Notes from 1977-1991
John Charles Boger
Online Essay
Eyes Wide Open: What Social Science Can Tell Us About the Supreme Court's Use of Social Science
Jonathan P. Feingold and Evelyn R. Carter