Lewis & Clark Law Review

The Lewis & Clark Law Review (LCLR) is a general-purpose law review publishing original scholarship from across the legal academy.

First founded as the Journal of Small and Emerging Business Law in 1996, LCLR was rededicated with a broader mission in Spring 2004. In the latest Washington & Lee citation rankings, LCLR ranked in the top 5% of U.S. published law journals.  

Recent Print Volume Releases:

The third issue of Volume 29 is available online, featuring articles by Michelle Browning Coughlin, Tyler Dougherty, and Hannah R. Weiser & Elizabeth Brown. This issue also features Notes & Comments by Serene Mistkawi and Patrick W. Schrader: Volume 29, Issue 3

The second issue of Volume 29 is available online, featuring an article by Matt Bender, and an essay by Joseph Scott Miller. This issue also features Notes & Comments by Davis C. Hayter and Josepheen Strauss: Volume 29, Issue 2

The first issue of Volume 29 is available online, featuring articles by Terrence Neal, William O’Donohue & Sneha Gupta, and Lauren R. Roth. This issue also features Notes & Comments by Natalie Lerner and Katelyn M. Sundstrom: Volume 29, Issue 1

The fourth issue of Volume 28 is available online, featuring articles by Elizabeth Elia, Steven Ferrey, and Michael L. Smith. This issue also features Notes & Comments by Joseph Arzt and Audre L. Sylvester: Volume 28, Issue 4

The third issue of Volume 28 is available online, featuring articles by Daniel F. Bousquet and Mark Cebert & Aliza B. Kaplan. This issue also features Notes & Comments by Sun Kim, Heather Spencer, and Amy Subach: Volume 28, Issue 3

The second issue of Volume 28 is available online, featuring articles by Tabrez Y. Ebrahim, Madiha Zahrah Choksi & James Grimmelmann and Michael J. Madison. This issue also features Notes & Comments by Loren Naldoza, Elisabeth Sethi, Talia O. Thuet and Paige M. Walker: Volume 28, Issue 2

The first issue of Volume 28 is available online, featuring articles by Ava Ayers, Kip M. Hustace and Molly J. Walker Wilson. This issue also features Notes & Comments by Michaela A. Giuggio and James Plunkett: Volume 28, Issue 1

The fourth issue of Volume 27 is available online, featuring a symposium introduction by David Schraub, keynotes by Steven M. Freeman and Eric K. Ward, and articles by Felice Batlan, J. Richard Broughton, Diane Kemker, Lili Levi, Kenneth L. Marcus and Dalia T. Mitchell. This issue also features Notes & Comments by Shawn Stevenson: Volume 27, Issue 4

The third issue of Volume 27 is available online, featuring articles by Adam Crepelle, David H. Gans and Nora Coon. This issue also features Notes & Comments by Sydney Chong Ju Padgett, Catherine Mattecheck and Kristine Quint: Volume 27, Issue 3

The second issue of Volume 27 is available online, featuring a lecture by Judge D. Brooks Smith and articles by Josh Gupta-Kagan, Christopher Church, Melissa Carter, Vivek Sankaran & Andrew Barclay, Dylan R. Hedden-Nicely, Paul Diller, Kaitlin Ainsworth Caruso and David R. Katner. This issue also features Notes & Comments by Emily Potucek and Ember DeVaul: Volume 27, Issue 2

The first issue of Volume 27 is available online, featuring articles by Mark Strasser, Vida B. Johnson, Matthew J. Lindsay, Tali Gal, Ruthy Lowenstein Lazar, John T. Parry, and Jenna Prochaska. This issue also features Notes & Comments by Matt Heldt, and Hailey Stauffer-Person: Volume 27, Issue 1

The fourth issue of Volume 26 is available online, featuring articles by Nancy J. Knauer, Christine Cimini, Doug Smith, Joy Y. Xiang, and Matthew P. Bergman. This issue also features an Essay by Kathryn Tucker, Holly Martinez & Ebony Morris, and Notes & Comments by Sadie Wolff, and Aime Lee Ohlmann: Volume 26, Issue 4

The third issue of Volume 26 is available online, featuring articles by Jyoti Nanda, Emily Torstveit Ngara, Itai Fiegenbaum, and Rachel Kunjummen Paulose. This issue also features an Essay by Maytal Gilboa & Yotam Kaplan, and Notes & Comments by Rebecca K. Tucker, Hannah C. DeLoach, and Michael Loy: Volume 26, Issue 3

The second issue of Volume 26 is available online, featuring a foreword by Erwin Chemerinsky, articles by David M. Driesen, Edward B. Foley, Joshua A. Douglas, Mark Bohnhorst, Reed Hunt, Kate E. Morrow, Aviam Soifer, Michael Vitiello, and Nora V. Demleitner. This issue also features Notes & Comments by Annamarie White Carty, Colin Reynolds, and Ivy-Rose Kramer: Volume 26, Issue 2

The first issue of Volume 26 is available online, featuring articles by Jessica K. Heldman, Mattias Karlsson Dinnetz and Michael S. Mireles, Christine Abely, and Michael J. Cole. This issue also features Essays by Tonya M. Evans and Stephen E. Smith, as well as Notes & Comments by Victoria Bejarano Hurst Muirhead, Rohan Koosha Hiatt, and James E.A. Rehwaldt: Volume 26, Issue 1

Join the Staff: 2025 Law Review Recruitment

The 2025 recruitment period is opening soon! Please reach out to lclr@lclark.edu if you have any questions.

 

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The views expressed by authors in the Lewis & Clark Law Review do not necessarily reflect those of the review’s Editorial Board.