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'''The Yale Law Journal''' is a student-run journal of legal scholarship affiliated to the Yale Law School. Published continuously since 1891, it is the oldest and most widely known of the eight law reviews published by students at Yale Law School. The ''Journal'' is one of the most cited legal publications in the nation and usually generates the highest number of citations per published article.^[1]
The ''Journal'', which is published eight times per year, contains articles, essays, and book reviews by professional legal scholars as well as student-written notes and comments. It is edited entirely by students. The ''Journal'' also publishes an online companion, ''The Pocket Part'', which features op-ed length versions of ''Journal'' articles and responses from leading practitioners, policymakers, and scholars, and also serves as a forum for the ''Journal's readers and authors to discuss legal scholarship.
The ''Journal'', in conjunction with the ''Harvard Law Review'', the ''Columbia Law Review'', and the ''University of Pennsylvania Law Review'', publishes ''The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation'', the most widely followed authority for legal citation formats in the United States.

Contents

Notable Alumni

Admissions

Selected articles published in YLJ

Notes

External links

Notable Alumni

Past editors of the ''Journal'' include prominent law professors (Akhil Amar, Ian Ayres, Stephen L. Carter, John Hart Ely, Randall Kennedy, Martha Minow, Joseph Goldstein, Tomiko Brown-Nagin[1]) , political figures (journalist Michael Barone, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, Senator Arlen Specter), Supreme Court justices (Abe Fortas, Samuel Alito), and other judges (Guido Calabresi, Robert Katzmann, and Sonia Sotomayor).

Admissions

The ''Journal'' holds a two-part admissions competition each spring, consisting of a 4-5 hour "bluebooking exam," followed by a traditional writing competition. Unlike journals at most law schools, grades are never a factor in admissions to the Yale Law Journal or the selection of journal officers. Although the ''Journal'' identifies a target maximum number of members to accept each year, it is not a firm number. Students may also join the staff if they publish a note in the ''Journal.'' Due to the less selective admissions process and the relatively small size of Yale Law School, a higher percentage of the student body is a member of the ''Journal'' than at other top-tier law schools.

Selected articles published in YLJ

Some of the most cited articles published by the ''Journal'' include:

★ Charles A. Reich, ''The New Property'', 73 YALE L.J. 733 (1964).

★ William L. Prosser, ''The Assault upon the Citadel (Strict Liability to the Consumer)'', 69 YALE L.J. 1099 (1960).

★ John Hart Ely, ''The Wages of Crying Wolf: A Comment on Roe v. Wade'', 82 YALE L.J. 920 (1973).

★ Thomas I. Emerson, ''Toward a General Theory of the First Amendment'', 72 YALE L.J. 877 (1963).

★ Robert H. Mnookin & Lewis Kornhauser, ''Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: The Case of Divorce'', 88 YALE L.J. 950 (1979).

★ Bruce A. Ackerman, ''The Storrs Lectures: Discovering the Constitution'', 93 YALE L.J. 1013 (1984).

★ Frank R. Easterbrook & Daniel R. Fischel, ''Corporate Control Transactions'', 91 YALE L.J. 698 (1982).

★ Joseph William Singer, ''The Player and the Cards: Nihilism and Legal Theory'', 94 YALE L.J. 1 (1984).

Notes

1. Law journals' ranking, Washington & Lee Law School.

External links

★ The Yale Law Journal

★ The Pocket Part

★ Fred R. Shapiro, ''The Most-Cited Articles from The Yale Law Journal'', 100 Yale L.J. 1449 (1991)