Law Review About-Face;U-Va. Journal Tries to Attract 1st Black

From: The Washington Post | Date: February 11, 1987| Author: | Copyright information

In its 74 years of publishing scholarly legal articles, the prestigious Virginia Law Review at the University of Virginia Law School here has not had a single black member.

Last week, the membership of the student-run journal-the only major law review in the country never to have offered a position to a black student-adopted an affirmative action plan designed to change that situation.

The 52-to-13 vote followed three years of vigorous debate over why blacks have not made law review under the current system of anonymous selection and over the propriety of giving minorities special ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

The University of Pennsylvania Law Review: 150 years of history.
Magazine article from: University of Pennsylvania Law Review ; The University of Pennsylvania Law Review (1) is one of the nation's oldest law...2) The predecessor publication of the Law Review, the American Law Register, was published...Bar beginning in 1852. (3) As the Penn Law Review marks its 150th anniversary, this Essay...
No Need to Reorganize GMU Law Review
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ; ...reorganization of the student-edited law review into two faculty-edited journals: the Supreme Court Economic review and a law review comprising solely student papers. This...cites three reasons for reorganizing the law review: (1) student editorship over articles...
George Mason Dean Bucks Another Tradition With Law Review Plan
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ; ...to do away with the traditional student-edited law review. He plans to replace it with two new journals...1887, when Harvard started its student-edited law review. Ever since, law review membership has been an academic plum. It is the...
RACE AND GENDER IN THE LAW REVIEW
Magazine article from: Northwestern University Law Review ; ...the perspectives of people of color. Law review literature followed a similar pattern...symposium, the contents of Northwestern's law review reflect a territory inhabited only by...pages of the Northwestern University Law Review ("the Law Review"). It is not a story...
News and Views; The First Black President of the Harvard Law Review
Magazine article from: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education ; The law review editors at the nation's most prestigious...of the country's law school students. Law review editors claim the best positions as associates...of the century, almost no blacks made law review at the nation's prestigious law schools...
4 from Harvard charge bias at law review
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe ; ...four black women editors of the Harvard Law Review have accused the prestigious journal...students, are considering resigning from the law review and may take their case to the school...accusations made against the editor of the law review, Emily R. Schulman, also a third-year...
A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE LAW REVIEW
Magazine article from: Northwestern University Law Review ; ...co-editors-in-chief of the Northwestern University Law Review in 1947 when the journal was known by a different name: the Illinois Law Review. I am sure that most students who...before Art and I even knew what a law review was, but Northwestern retained the...
Reflections on law review, legal education, law practice, and my alma mater.(University of Michigan Law School)
Magazine article from: Michigan Law Review ; ...the 100th anniversary of the Michigan Law Review. I have many fond memories of my time...was invited to serve on the Michigan Law Review. I remember it like it was yesterday...days, an invitation to try out for the Law Review was based solely on grades--if you were...
Law review 29: Reprint: I am being recalled. What about my civilian job?
Magazine article from: The Officer ; ...Guard call-up in 2003, we are reprinting Law Review 29, which answers questions about employment...Reservists and Guard members to the relevant Law Review columns. Q: I have been notified that...that you are leaving for that purpose. (Law Review 5.) * Your cumulative period of ...
The law review article selection process: results from a national study.
Magazine article from: Albany Law Review ; ...INTRODUCTION In the mid-1990s, the topic of the student-edited law review was very much on the minds of legal scholars and law review editors. In 1994, the University of Chicago Law Review published a series of essays addressing the role of students...

Find more facts and information related to the article "Law Review About-Face;U-Va. Journal Tries to ..."