New York University Law Review

Each year, the journal selects 52 new members from a class of approximately 450. Members are selected using a competitive process, which takes into account an applicant's first-year grades, performance in a writing competition, and potential to contribute to diversity on the journal.[5]

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 2.427.[9]

On October 6, 2018, a group called "Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences" filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against the review over discrimination against white males in selecting staff editors and articles to publish.[10] The challengers lost at trial [11] and again on appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.[12] The Supreme Court of the United States declined to review the case.[13]

Prominent alumni of the New York University Law Review include:

• Hakeem Jeffries, Minority Leader of the 118th Congress[14]
• Phil Weiser, 39th Attorney General of Colorado[15]
• Rudy Giuliani, 107th Mayor of New York City
• Evan Chesler, former chairman of Cravath, Swaine & Moore
• Martin Lipton, co-founder of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz,[16]
• Leonard Rosen, co-founder of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz[16]
• Herbert Wachtell, co-founder of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz[16]
• George Katz, co-founder of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz[16]

The journal has published the following notable articles:[17]

• Karl N. Llewellyn, Through Title to Contract and a Bit Beyond, 15 N.Y.U. L.Q. Rev. 159 (1938)
• Hugo L. Black, The Bill of Rights, 35 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 865 (1960)
• Earl Warren, The Bill of Rights and the Military, 37 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 181 (1962)
• Clyde W. Summers, Individual Rights in Collective Agreements and Arbitration, 37 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 362 (1962)
• Henry J. Friendly, In Praise of Erie--And of the New Federal Common Law, 39 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 383 (1964)
• Robert A. Leflar, Choice-Influencing Considerations in Conflict Law, 41 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 267 (1966)
• Anthony G. Amsterdam, The Supreme Court and the Rights of Suspects in Criminal Cases, 45 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 785 (1970)
• Ronald Dworkin, The Forum of Principle, 56 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 469 (1981)
• William J. Brennan, Jr., The Bill of Rights and the States: The Revival of State Constitutions as Guardians of Individual Rights, 61 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 535 (1986)
• Richard L. Revesz, Rehabilitating Interstate Competition: Rethinking the 'Race-to-the-Bottom' Rationale for Federal Environmental Regulation, 67 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1210 (1992)
• Russell G. Pearce, The Professionalism Paradigm Shift: Why Discarding Professional Ideology Will Improve the Conduct and Reputation of the Bar, 70 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1229 (1995)
• Yochai Benkler, Free as the Air to Common Use: First Amendment Constraints on Enclosure of the Public Domain, 74 L. Rev. 354 (1999)
• Jon D. Hanson & Douglas A. Kysar, Taking Behavioralism Seriously: The Problem of Market Manipulation, 74 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 630 (1999)
• Jody Freeman, The Private Role in Public Governance, 75 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 543 (2000)
• Stephen Breyer, Our Democratic Constitution, 77 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 245 (2002)
• Lisa Schultz Bressman, Beyond Accountability: Arbitrariness and Legitimacy in the Administrative State, 78 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 461 (2003)
• Jack M. Balkin, Digital Speech and Democratic Culture: A Theory of Freedom of Expression for the Information Society, 79 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1 (2004)
• Richard A. Nagareda, Class Certification in the Age of Aggregate Proof, 84 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 97 (2009)
• Arthur R. Miller, Simplified Pleading, Meaningful Days in Court, and Trials on the Merits: Reflections on the Deformation of Federal Procedure, 88 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 286 (2013)

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