| Texas Law Review | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviated title(s) | TLR |
| Discipline | Law review |
| Language | English |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher | The Texas Law Review Association ( USA) |
| Publication history | 1922 to present |
| Frequency | Seven times a year, November through June |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0040-4411 |
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Texas Law Review (TLR) is the student-produced law review of the University of Texas School of Law at the University of Texas at Austin. It publishes seven issues per year and includes articles by law professors, jurists, and practicing attorneys as well as book reviews, essays, commentaries, and notes.
Texas Law Review was first published in December 1922. It was founded by Professors Leon A. Green and Ira P. Hildebrand and Judge Ireland Graves.
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History
The idea of a law review at the University of Texas was first seriously proposed by Professors Ira Polk Hildebrand and Charles Shirley Potts in the spring of 1915. Though students and faculty discussed the idea for the next three years, a lack of viable funding options as well as the outbreak of World War I in 1918 prevented the University from instituting anything permanent.
However, in the fall of 1920, the return of Professor Leon Green from private practice restarted the movement with a new idea for permanent funding--the “Leon Green Plan” of endowment. Under the Green plan, The Texas Law Review was to be created as a Texas non-profit corporation “for the purpose of maintaining and publishing a literary and scientific publication.” The Review would be initially capitalized with $25,000 divided into 500 shares sold to Texas lawyers at $50 each. In the spirit of patriotism and in honor of the returning U.S. veterans to the University, the Subscription Agreement stipulated that the initial capital would remain invested in U.S. Liberty Bonds until their maturity. In preparing to “sell” the idea to Texas lawyers and judges, Professor Green outlined his “Points of Argument” for establishment of the Review:
1. To furnish a medium of expression for the Texas Bar.
2. To provide a means of preserving the results of research done by members of the Bar.
3. To afford a means of recording the achievements of Texas lawyers.
4. To record the progress being made in the development of jurisprudence.
5. To furnish a means whereby the research and writing work of students, so essential to good legal training, could be published as incentive to the students.
6. To establish a channel of communication between the Law School and the Bar, mutually beneficial to both.
All subscribers to the plan (for the price of $50 per share) would be considered charter members and would realize a return on investment in the form of one copy of each issue per share for the duration of ownership.
The Green plan was enthusiastically endorsed by then-Dean Townes with the support and cooperation of University President Robert E. Vinson. At the first faculty meeting of the 1920 fall term, Dean Townes outlined the plan of organization and spoke at length on the educational and professional opportunities that a first-class law review could render. According to Dean Townes, the publication would benefit faculty, students, practicing members of the bar, and the University itself. The faculty strongly endorsed the plan and quickly appointed a “Founding Board of Trustees” and initial Board of Directors consisting of highly respected members of the Texas State Bar. Among the founding board members were: Judge F.A. Williams (Galveston), Judge Nelson Phillips (Austin), Judge Dillard (Sherman), Judge Etheridge (Dallas), and Judge Kimbrough (Amarillo).
In the meantime, students in the law school class of 1921--W.B. Jack Ball, Roy C. Ledbetter, Hobert Price, John S. Redditt, and perhaps others--had independently been attempting to organize a student-run journal. Upon implementation of the “Green Plan,” these students volunteered their services to the committee in hopes that their vision of a Texas Law Review would be realized before their graduation in 1921. The faculty then choose a first Board of Student Editors as a “provisional board” which included: W.B. Jack Ball (Editor in Chief), John S. Redditt (Associated Editor in Chief), John Robert Anthony, Harry Dow, Willie Zac Ledbetter, Irene Elizabeth Lohman, Hobert Price, and Lawrence Herndon Rhea. Though this staff immediately organized and began research on case notes and comments, their work would turn out to be mere practice as the actual date of the first publication was yet another year away.
By July of 1922, Professor Green’s tireless efforts had resulted in 458 of the initial 500 shares being sold. Eager to launch the review without further delay, the then-existing subscribers agreed to underwrite the final 42 shares necessary for endowment and the Corporation Charter was signed and acknowledged on November 6, 1922 by the three incorporators: Judge Ireland Graves, Professor Ira P. Hildebrand, and Professor Leon Green. Professor Potts was elected Chairman of the Board of Editors and planned for fourteen articles to be published in Volume One--ten to be prepared by faculty members and four by Texas lawyers. The student staff, led by Editor in Chief A.W. Walker, Jr. had complete responsibility for the “Case notes” Section and it was hoped they would soon take over the “Comments” as well.
In December of 1922, Texas Law Review, Volume I, Issue 1 was published. The first article, Is a Re-statement of the Law as to Liability Arising from Dangerous Premises Desirable and Practicable?, was written by Dean John C. Townes. With this, one of the nation’s most respected law journals was born.
Notable Texas Law Review Alumni
- David Anderson, Professor at the University of Texas School of Law, Fred & Emily Marshall Wulff Centennial Chair in Law
- James Baker, Former United States Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury & White House Chief of Staff
- David Brooks, Texas District Judge
- J. Curtiss Brown, Former Chief Judge, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District
- William Curtis Bryson, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Jerry Buchmeyer, United States District Judge, Northern District of Texas
- Carlos Cadena, Former Judge, Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District
- John Chapoton, Former Deputy Assistant United States Secretary of the Treasury
- O. Don Chapoton, Former Assistant United States Secretary of the Treasury
- Gregory Coleman, Former Texas Solicitor General
- Lynn Coleman, Former United States Under-Secretary of Energy & General Counsel
- Ben Clarkson Connally, Former Chief Judge, United States District Court, Southern District of Texas
- Finis E. Cowan, Former United States District Judge, Southern District of Texas
- Lloyd Doggett, United States Congressman, Former Justice of the Texas Supreme Court
- Sarah Duncan, Former Judge, Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District
- John Dzienkowski, Professor at the University of Texas School of Law, John S. Redditt Professor in State and Local Government
- Frank Elliott, Jr., Professor at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law; Texas Tech Law School, Former Dean; Assistant Attorney General, State of Texas
- Walter Raleigh Ely, Jr., Former Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- David Frederick, successful appellate attorney; has argued over 21 cases before the United States Supreme Court
- W. Royal Furgeson, Jr., United States District Judge
- Bryan A. Garner, Best-selling author of legal writing guides and Editor in Chief of Black's Law Dictionary
- William Garwood, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Thomas Gibbs Gee, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- H. Lee Godfrey, Susman Godfrey, LLP
- Joe R. Greenhill, Former Justice & Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court
- James Greenwood III, Former Houston City Council Member
- Darrel Hester, Jr., Texas State District Judge
- Harry Lee Hudspeth, Chief United States District Judge, Western District of Texas
- Edith Jones, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- George P. Kazen, United States District Judge, Southern District of Massachusetts
- W. Page Keeton, Former Dean of The University of Texas School of Law and author of Prosser & Keeton on Torts
- Robert Keeton, United States District Judge, District of Massachusetts
- Baine Kerr, Former President, Pennzoil, Inc.
- Simeon Lake, III, United States District Judge, Southern District of Texas
- Robert Lanier, Former Mayor of Houston
- Tex Lezar, Founder of Texas Public Policy Foundation
- Pete Lowry, Texas District Judge
- Ronald Mann, Professor at Columbia Law School
- Raymond Marshall, Former United States Secretary of Labor
- F. Scott McCown, Former Texas State District Court Judge
- Thomas O. McGarity, Professor at the University of Texas School of Law, W. James Kronzer Chair in Trial and Appellate Advocacy
- Charles Meyers, Former Dean, Stanford University School of Law
- David Peeples, Texas Court of Appeals Judge, 4th District
- Thomas Phillips, Former President of the State Bar of Texas
- Ben Powell, Former United States District Judge
- Harry Reasoner, Former Managing Partner, Vinson & Elkins, LLP
- Rueben Senterfitt, Jr., Former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives
- Max Sherman, Former Texas State Senator; Former Dean, Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs
- Bea Ann Smith, Former Judge of the Texas Court of Appeals, 3d District
- E. Ashley Smith, Former Texas State Representative
- Ross Sterling, Former United States District Court Judge, Southern District of Texas
- Stephen Susman, Susman Godfrey, LLP
- John Sutton, Jr., Former Dean, The University of Texas School of Law
- Larry Temple, Special Counsel to President Lyndon Baines Johnson
- Ruel Carlile Walker, Former Justice of the Texas Supreme Court
- Ewing Welein, Jr., United States District Judge, Southern District of Texas
- Jay Westbrook, Professor at the University of Texas School of Law, Benno C. Schmidt Chair of Business Law
- William White, Former United States Deputy Secretary of Energy; Former Chairman of the Texas Democratic Party; Mayor of Houston
- Diane Wood, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- Zeke Zbranek, Texas State District Judge
Other Interesting Facts
The Texas Law Review also publishes the Texas Law Review Manual on Usage & Style (MoUS) and the Texas Rules of Form (TRoF).
The Texas Law Review office is relatively large but lacks any windows.
Each year, one member of the Texas Law Review secretly writes and distributes a satirical pamphlet titled "The Review Review" under the pseudonym "Shadow Editor in Chief." The Rev Rev mocks the law review and its members.
The Texas Law Review receives well over 3,000 article submissions each year.
Each article published in the Texas Law Review is read and edited in its entirety at least 24 times before being published.
Although the Texas Law Review publishes under the umbrella of UT publications, it is independent from the university and has been so since its founding. It has always been an incorporated entity organized under the laws of Texas.
Members are selected for the Texas Law Review based on an examination of student-applicants' grades and legal-writing ability.
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