{"page_header":"Widener Law Review","top_image":"{staticroot}files\/pages\/wl_012615_016-8.jpg","page_intro":"<h1>For more information on the <em>Widener Law Review<\/em>, please visit<a href=\"http:\/\/widenerlawreview.org\/\"> widenerlawreview.org<\/a>.<\/h1>\r\n<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/widenerlawreview.org\/\"> <em>Widener Law Review<\/em><\/a> (<em>Law Review<\/em>) is the only general interest law review on the Delaware Law campus. <em>Law Review<\/em> membership allows students to hone and sharpen their legal research, writing, and editing skills. Skills mastered as a staff member can be crucial to your future career.<\/p>","page_content":"<p>Many employers specifically recruit staff members of a law review because of the skills they cultivate through their work on the publication. Moreover, being a staff member can help shape your future by providing you with access to a nationwide network of successful practitioners: the prestige of being a general law review staff member is recognized no matter where you choose to practice.<\/p>\r\n<p>Your <em>Law Review<\/em> colleagues invariably will become your professional colleagues, and <em>Law Review<\/em> alumni are at work throughout the public sector, in nationally-recognized law firms, and as federal and state judicial clerks.<\/p>\r\n<h3>Purpose and Process<\/h3>\r\n<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.widenerlawreview.org\/\"> <em>Widener Law Review<\/em><\/a> is dedicated to the publication of scholarship pertaining to a wide range of current legal topics, including civil and criminal law, constitutional law, environmental law, public interest law, professional ethics, health law, and corporate law. These legal topics and others are explored through annual symposia organized and hosted by the <em>Law Review<\/em>. Unsolicited articles authored by professors, judges, practitioners as well as articles solicited from symposia speakers, form the core of the publication. Student-authored notes, comments, essays, book reviews, and other appropriate pieces provide additional material.<\/p>\r\n<p>All submissions undergo the <em>Law Review&rsquo;s<\/em> rigorous editorial process to improve upon the overall quality of authors&rsquo; works. Membership on the <em>Law Review<\/em> provides students the opportunity to enhance the legal education they receive in the classroom through the practice of honing legal writing through reviewing and editing. Staff members also have the opportunity to produce a student-authored note considered for publication in the <em>Law Review<\/em>. Notes may be written on a wide range of legal topics.<\/p>\r\n<h3>History<\/h3>\r\n<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.widenerlawreview.org\/\"> <em>Widener Law Review<\/em><\/a> (formerly known as the <em>Widener Law Symposium Journal<\/em>) is one of three law journals published by Delaware Law. Publication of the <em>Law Review <\/em>is the result of several years of student, faculty, and administration&rsquo;s efforts to increase opportunity for and diversity of scholarly legal publication at the Law School. A faculty committee developed the general framework for the <em>Law Review<\/em> and selected the first editorial board in 1993. The board began organizational efforts in the spring of 1994. The first symposium was March 1995, and publication of the inaugural issue was May 1996. Since that issue, the <em>Widener Law Review<\/em> has been cited in publications such as the <em>Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Harvard Journal on Legislation, Yale Journal of Policy, Law, and Ethics, Duke Law Review, <\/em>and <em>Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, <\/em>among others.<\/p>","callouts":[]}