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10 UCLA L. Rev. 1 (1962-1963)
Upon the Tenth Anniversary of the UCLA Law Review

handle is hein.journals/uclalr10 and id is 13 raw text is: UPON THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UCLA LAW REVIEW Earl Warren* Nine years ago you honored me by inviting me to write a few words for the first issue of the then new UCLA Law Review. This I was happy to do because no law school can rightly consider itself among the best until it has a successful law review. In the inter- vening years, you have made a remarkable record on both scores. My interest in the new UCLA Law Review was more than a passing one, because I had played a part in the establishment of the Law School itself. As you enter your tenth year of publication and increase the annual number of issues, you invite me to dedicate the November Issue of Volume 10. You call attention to my statement in your Volume 1: The American Law Review properly has been called the most remarkable institution of the law school world, and you ask how have your views modified during your years as Chief Justice? It is normal and almost inevitable for the views of individuals to be modified as they view life and legal problems from a different vantage point. Sometimes they change their views. At other times, their earlier views are strengthened. And so it is with me. So far as law reviews are concerned, my views are strengthened. If it were not for their critical examination, we would have a great void in the legal world. Courts would have few guidelines for appraising the thinking of scholars and students or of the bar itself. It is largely through them that we are able to see ourselves as others see us. In these days of emotion-packed issues which reach our courts, it is highly important that we have discussion and enlightened criticism of their decisions and opinions. The courts are not plagued by lack of criticism, but they do suffer from an abundance of criticism based on animosity to the result without objective scrutiny of the facts, legal principles and precedents involved. The latter kind of criticism cannot be attributed to the law reviews. While they are our greatest critics, and properly so, they match precedent with precedent, principle with principle, and reason with reason. So conducted, criticism becomes of inestimable assistance to the courts and cannot do other than raise the standards of justice throughout the land. Very often a law review article concerning a current court * The Chief Justice of the United States.

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