The DePaul Law Review is a student-edited national law journal, established by the DePaul University College of Law in 1951. The Law Review is intended to serve the DePaul community and the legal profession by providing an instrument for the development of scholarly jurisprudence. As the Honorable William J. Bauer, a member of our first editorial board and judge on the United State Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, described in his foreword to the 50th Anniversary issue, "A law review is, pretty much, the only vehicle available to our profession for practitioners, students, and even judges and professors to express themselves on subjects of deep interest to the writers and such of their readers who may have an interest in the problem under discussion. The contributors, and particularly the students, have no monetary axes to grind, no cause to which they owe the duty of client relationship to advance or defend, and no motive except pure intellectual and legal research and development. The cause is pure; the work, properly presented, has the potential of somehow, somewhere, advancing legal thought and even affecting the cause of justice."

In the spirit of fostering pure intellectual and legal research, the DePaul Law Review has three main goals. First, the Law Review serves as a research aid to practicing lawyers and academic scholars through the timely publication of topical and original articles, including scholarly legal analysis, surveys and empirical studies of local and national significance. Second, the Law Review provides an opportunity for its members to develop vital legal skills in research, writing, and analysis to help further the intellectual development and expression of students at DePaul University College of Law in a manner that benefits the entire legal community. Finally, the Law Review strives to establish a national identity and reputation of professional excellence for the Law Review and DePaul University College of Law.

The Law Review publishes four issues a year. One of these issues is devoted to publication of papers presented at the Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy, sponsored annually by DePaul Law Review alumnus Robert Clifford. A second issue is devoted to the publication of papers presented at a symposium sponsored by the Law Review. Recent topics for this symposium have included: 

• Ties That Bind: Family Relationships, Biology, and the Law (2006)
• Precious Commodities: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts (2005) 
• Privacy & Identity: Constructing, Maintaining and Protecting Personhood (2004)
• Race as Proxy in Law and Society: Emerging Issues in Race and the Law (2003)
• Beyond Belonging: Challenging the Boundaries of Nationality (2002)
• The End of Adolescence (2001)
• Statutory Rape Realities: Scholarship and Practice (2000)

Information about this year's upcoming symposium can be found under Current News. The remaining two issues are devoted to publishing original articles on a variety of timely legal topics submitted to the Law Review by practitioners and academics. We welcome submissions of articles for publication. At least one student note or comment is published in each of the four issues.

The DePaul Law Review is a member of the National Conference of Law Reviews (NCLR).