Law Reviews and Journals

Founded in 1897 as The Forum, the Dickinson Law Review is a student-run journal and the fifth-oldest legal journal in the nation. The Dickinson Law Review contains articles by professors, judges, and practitioners, reviews of important recent books from recognized experts, and student-authored comments. Student editors select, edit, and publish articles and comments, and each editor is trained to evaluate submissions critically and comprehensively. Through a team-editing process, editors address each piece’s analysis, writing style, research, organization, and accuracy and work closely with authors to improve their work.

Additionally, the Dickinson Law Review hosts an annual symposium that brings stakeholders in the legal community, including practitioners, academics, jurists, and law students, together for scholarly dialogue about forthcoming and recently published articles.

The Penn State Law Review is a general-interest, student-run journal that publishes in the broad range of legal scholarship and does not limit submissions by any specific topic. Generally, each issue includes several legal articles and comments. The articles are written by legal scholars and practitioners, and the comments are written by Penn State Dickinson Law students. Every year, as part of a stringent selection process, the journal evaluates a host of submissions.

The Penn State Law Review has also organized symposia and hosted scholarly dialogues for authors with forthcoming or recently published articles to discuss their contributions. It maintains the Penn Statim, an online companion to the print issue, as well as the Forum Blog.

In publication since 2009, the Penn State Arbitration Law Review is unique in that it is currently the only scholarly legal journal dedicated to covering both U.S. domestic and international developments in arbitration and other dispute resolution procedures. It publishes scholarly articles resulting from an annual symposium, as well as student pieces on recent case law, legislative enactments, arbitral decisions, and reviews of current dispute resolution literature. The Arbitration Law Review also maintains a blog that publishes additional professional and student pieces examining developments in the law of arbitration.

The Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (JLIA) is a student-edited, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, jointly published since 2012 by Penn State Dickinson Law and the School of International Affairs. JLIA publishes scholarly articles and student comments focusing on developments of international law and current issues.

JLIA promotes academic and public discourse at the intersection of law and international affairs, featuring contributions in the areas of public and private international law, international relations, comparative law and politics, geography, economics, history, and policy issues in the various sciences. It covers a range of timely topics including but not limited to: global economy, international crimes, human rights, counter-terrorism, international trade, intellectual property, sports and entertainment law.