ÍæÅ¼½ã½ãLaw Review Forum

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    The ÍæÅ¼½ã½ãLaw Review Forum is the online counterpart to ÍæÅ¼½ã½ãLaw Review, the flagship journal at ÍæÅ¼½ã½ãDedman School of Law. The Forum specializes in short-form, timely articles that are reviewed and published on an ongoing basis and with an accelerated schedule. 

    The ÍæÅ¼½ã½ãLaw Review Forum started seventy-two years after ÍæÅ¼½ã½ãLaw Review’s first publication in 1947 and serves as a new format for authors to engage in timely debate on important legal issues. As ÍæÅ¼½ã½ãLaw Review’s online counterpart, the Forum provides another platform for professors, practitioners, judges, legal scholars, and students to explore the implications of recent legal decisions, events, and trends. The Forum strives to publish contemporary scholarship and elevate the work of diverse individuals whose identities, viewpoints, and ideas have often been underrepresented in the legal field. 

    All editing is done by student members of the board of editors and the staff of the ÍæÅ¼½ã½ãLaw Review Association. The Association also publishes the ÍæÅ¼½ã½ãLaw Review, the Journal of Air Law and Commerce, and the ÍæÅ¼½ã½ãAnnual Texas Survey.

Recent Articles in Volume 78 (2025)

By Sam Williams – One of the most controversial elements of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris was a drag show during the opening ceremony that allegedly parodied Christianity by recreating Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper. A legal meme emerged showing both images side by side, labeling da Vinci’s painting “Westlaw” and the drag show “Lexis.” In this article, I explain why this meme is funny by showing how the differences between Westlaw and Lexis+, and legal minds’ attitudes towards those differences, offer fascinating parallels to this controversy. [] 


By Jeffrey A. Parness – This Article advocates law review reforms that would enhance the impact of the ideas within various journals’ published works. Opportunities, yet not often seized, chiefly arise from the new technologically based mechanisms for delivering information. Impact enhancement can be achieved with major, yet low effort, reforms to the solicitation, editing, and distribution stages of journal publication. []

Contact

Journal Coordinator
Lisa Ponce
ponce@smu.edu

President
Barrett Kerr

Forum Editor-in-Chief
Ethan Sullivan

smulraforum@smu.edu

Forum Assistant Executive Editor
Jacob Davis

Submissions

Submission Instructions

Related links 

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

ÍæÅ¼½ã½ãAnnual Texas Survey

ÍæÅ¼½ã½ãLaw Review

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