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44 Denv. L.J. 426 (1967)
The Law Review - Is It Meeting the Needs of the Legal Community

handle is hein.journals/denlr44 and id is 438 raw text is: THE LAW REVIEW- Is IT MEETING THE NEEDS OF THE LEGAL COMMUNITY?* INTRODUCTION O VER 35 years ago, Mr. Justice Cardozo observed that leadership in legal thought had passed from the benches of the courts to the chairs of the universities, thus stimulating a willingness to cite more law review essays in briefs and opinions in order to buttress a conclusion. He noted that the advance in prestige of university life had been accompanied with a corresponding advance in the prestige of their law reviews.' The law review occupies a unique position in the legal system today. Most law reviews are largely student-run institutions, publish- ing a variety of articles authored by professors, practitioners and students, and covering many facets of the law. Indeed, it might be said that the law review has the unique quality of allowing both master and apprentice to express their views. In few, if any, other professional periodicals does the student author have the opportunity to have his research and conclusions published for distribution to the profession. If one accepts the proposition that the law review is somewhat analogous to the judicial opinion or the attorney's brief as an expres- sion of the law, that is, the legal opinion of the academician, and if one accepts Mr. Justice Cardozo's observation concerning the rise in prestige of the university in legal thought, then the position of the law review is indeed an enviable one. The law review as an institution is not new. The oldest con- tinuously published American law journal today is the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.2 To date there are approximately 102 student-run periodicals listed in the Index to Legal Periodicals. *This article represents the culmination of a one-year survey of the content of law reviews and their evaluation by the legal profession, conducted by the Denver Law Journal. The initial results were presented at the Thirteenth National Conference of Law Reviews in San Francisco, California, in March, 1967. The authors wish to express their appreciation to the staff for its participation in the collection of initial data and to the Administration of Justice Program of the University of Denver College of Law for its assistance in data compilation. 'Cardozo, Introduction, in SELECTED READINGS ON THE LAW OF CONTRACTS ix (Ass'n. Am. L. Schools ed. 1931). 'Douglas, Law Reviews and Full Disclosure, 40 WASH. L. REv. 227, 228 (1965). 426

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