AUSTIN, Texas — A new study conducted by Washington & Lee University School of Law of citation frequency to legal publications has found that the Texas Law Review (TLR) is the 8th most frequently cited publication by both state and federal courts, and by scholars writing in law reviews. TLR is one of just seven law reviews to make the top ten on both lists (the others are the law reviews at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Chicago, Michigan, and Georgetown).
Citation frequency is the standard measure in most disciplines of the impact and influence of publications.
"This is welcome objective confirmation of the preeminent role the Texas Law Review plays in American law," said Dean Bill Powers, adding that, "a great law school must have a great law review, and thanks to the exemplary work by TLR's gifted student editors, past and present, we have one of the very best."
The Texas Law Review was founded in 1922, largely through the efforts of the legal giant Leon Green, J.D.'15, then a professor at UT Law. Former members of the Texas Law Review include numerous UT Law professors, Dean W. Page Keeton, Hon. James A. Baker III, former U.S. Secretary of State and White House Chief of Staff, and Hon. Edith Hollan Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
The Law Review is edited by second- and third-year students selected on the basis of academic performance and a writing competition. In addition to publishing seven issues of the Texas Law Review each year, the Law Review publishes the Texas Rules of Form and the Texas Law Review Manual on Usage, Style, and Editing.
The full details of the Washington & Lee study are available at http://law.wlu.edu/library/research/lawrevs/mostcited.htm
Related links:
Texas Law Review: http://www.utexas.edu/law/journals/tlr/