Northwestern University Law Review
Published by University of Illinois Press (Journal Finder)
ISSN : 0029-3571
Abbreviation : Northwest. Univ. Law Rev.
Aims & Scope
The Northwestern University Law Review is a student-operated journal that publishes six issues of high-quality, general legal scholarship each year.
Student editors make the editorial and organizational decisions and select articles submitted by professors, judges, and practitioners, as well as student pieces.
In addition to individual contributions, the Law Review has a proud history of special symposium issues on a broad range of important topics.
Recent symposium issues have included: Throwing Away the Key: Social and Legal Responses to Child Molesters (1997); Free Speech and Economic Power (1998); Empirical Legal Realism (2003); Constitutional Law and the Internet (2004); our Centennial Symposium Issue (2005); Censorship and Institutional Review Boards (2006); Ordering State-Federal Relations Through Preemption Doctrine (2007); The Legacy of Justice Stevens (2011); Festschrift in Honor of Professor Martin H.
Redish (2012); 100 Years Under the Income Tax (2013); Institutional Design and General Welfare (2014); Institutional Design (2014); Free Speech Foundations (2015); The Law-Stem Alliance and Next Generation Innovation (2016); Democratizing Criminal Law (2016); McCleskey v.
Kemp (2017); and Originalism (2018).
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Impact Factor
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.5 |
| 2024 | 2.00 |
SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.082 |
Quartile
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Q1 |
h-index
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 54 |
Impact Factor Trend
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Subjects & Keywords
Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.
