SMU Law Review Forum

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    The SMU Law Review Forum is the online counterpart to SMU Law Review, the flagship journal at SMU Dedman 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 SMU Law Review Forum started seventy-two years after SMU Law Review’s first publication in 1947 and serves as a new format for authors to engage in timely debate on important legal issues. As SMU Law 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 SMU Law Review Association. The Association also publishes the SMU Law Review, the Journal of Air Law and Commerce, and the SMU Annual Texas Survey.

Recent Articles in Volume 78 (2025)

Enhancing Law Review Impact

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. [...]

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Contact

Journal Coordinator
Lisa Ponce
ponce@smu.edu

President
Mikey Sanders
mikey@smu.edu

Forum Executive Editor
Bradley Kucera
bkucera@smu.edu
smulraforum@smu.edu

Forum Assistant Executive Editor
Madelyn Gerrald
mgerrald@smu.edu

Submissions

Submission Instructions

Related links 

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

SMU Annual Texas Survey

SMU Law Review

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