The Suffolk University Law Review is a law review published at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts by an independent student group.
Overview The law review's membership consists entirely of second and third year law students at Suffolk University Law School. These students are selected from an annual writing competition, and eligibility to compete is based on exceptional first-year grades. Suffolk University Law Review was established in 1967 and publishes all of its articles in both print form and online.
Donahue Lecture Series The Suffolk University Law Review sponsors the Donahue Lecture Series, which annually attracts lecturers from among the nation's top legal scholars and jurists. Each Donahue Lecturer is an exceptionally prominent legal scholar who delivers a lecture at Suffolk University Law School that forms the basis for a Lead Article to be published in the Law Review shortly thereafter.
The Law Review instituted this lecture series in 1980 to commemorate the Honorable Frank J. Donahue, former faculty member, trustee, and treasurer of Suffolk University. Judge Donahue graduated from Suffolk University Law School in 1921, and served as an Associate Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts for forty-two years—the longest term in that court's history. As Chairman of the Law School Committee of the Board of Trustees, Judge Donahue played an active role in the expansion of the faculty, library, and other facilities at the law school. For many years, he served as president of the Law School Alumni Association, and in that capacity personally raised thousands of dollars of scholarship funds to promote, encourage, and reward the pursuit of scholastic excellence.
Over the years, the Donahue Lecture Series has featured a number of outstanding legal scholars and jurists, including: Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Associate Justices Antonin Scalia, Stephen Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor, Judge Richard Posner, former United States Attorney General Edwin Meese, and consumer protection activist Ralph Nader.Suffolk University Law School : Law Review : Donahue Lectures
The Following is a Representative, but Currently Incomplete List of Prior Donahue Lecturers Speaker Title Bernard SchwartzWebb Professor of Law, New York University Law School Peter L. StraussProfessor of Law, Columbia University School of Law A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Philip B. KurlandWilliam R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Law School Theodore J. St. AntoineJames E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School G. Edward WhiteProfessor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law Grant GilmoreProfessor of Law, Vermont Law School Lawrence M. FriedmanMarion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law, Stanford Law School Antonin Scalia Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court John E. Nowak Professor of Law, University of Illinois School of Law Edward D. ReChief Judge of the United States Court of International Trade Derrick A. Bell, Jr.Dean, University of Oregon School of Law Paul R. VerkuilDean of the Law School, Tulane University School of Law Raoel BergerCharles Warren Senior Fellow, Harvard University Law School Jerold S. AuerbachProfessor and Chairman of the History Department, Wellesley College Dorothy W. NelsonUnited States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Jerome A. BarronDean of the George Washington University National Law Center Richard A. PosnerUnited States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit William H. RehnquistAssociate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Ronald D. RotundaProfessor of Law, University of Illinois Ralph NaderLawyer and Consumer Protection Activist Irving YoungerMarvin J. Sonosky Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School Constance Baker MotleyUnited States District Court for the Southern District of New York L. Kinvin WrothDean of the University of Maine School of Law Lino A. GragliaRex G. Baker and Edna Heflin Baker Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Texas School of Law Charles E. RiceProfessor of Law, University of Notre Dame Law School Jules B. GerardProfessor of Law, Washington University School of Law Bernard H. SieganDistinguished Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law Edwin Meese IIIFormer United States Attorney General Sarah WeddingtonLawyer and Lecturer, University of Texas and Texas Women's University Stephen BreyerUnited States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, now Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Stanley SporkinUnited States District Judge for the District of Columbia Louis FisherSenior Specialist in Separation of Powers Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress Jack GreenbergDean of Columbia University Patricia McGowan WaldUnited States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Cass R. SunsteinKarl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago Law School Owen M. FissAlexander M. Bickel Professor of Public Law, Yale University Law School Rodney A. SmollaArthur B. Hanson Professor of Law and Director, Institute of Bill of Rights Law, College of William and Mary, Marshall-Whythe School of Law Douglas J. WhaleyJames W. Shocknessy Professor of Law, Ohio State University College of Law Shirley S. AbrahamsonJustice, Wisconsin Supreme Court A.E. Dick HowardWhite Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs, University of Virginia E. Allan FarnsworthAlfred McCormack Professor of Law, Columbia University Michael J. PerryHoward J. Trienens Professor of Law, Northwestern University Law School A. Kim CambellFormer Canadian Prime Minister George P. FletcherCardozo Professor of Jurisprudence, Columbia University School of Law Emma Coleman JordanProfessor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center Paul B. Stephan, IIIPercy Brown, Jr. Professor of Law and the Hunton & Williams, Research Professor, University of Virginia Bruce M. SelyaUnited States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Sonia SotomayorUnited States District Court for the Southern District of New York, now Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Daniel R. CoquilletteFormer Dean and Professor of Law, Boston College Law School Akhil Reed AmarSouthmayd Professor of Law, Yale Law School Charles FriedAssociate Justice for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Patti B. SarisUnited States District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts Richard J. LeonPartner, Baker & Hostetler, now District Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia Alex KozinskiUnited States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Edward D. ReChief Judge Emeritus for the United States Court of International Trade and Distinguished Professor of Law, St. John's University School of Law Nancy GertnerUnited States District Court for the District of Massachusetts Loren A. SmithChief Judge of the United States Court of Claims Erwin ChemerinskySydney M. Irmas Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Southern California Law Center Joyce London AlexanderUnited States District Court for the District of Massachusetts Dean Alice Gresham BullockDean and Professor, Howard University School of Law Sandra L. LynchUnited States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Charles H. WhitebreadGeorge T. Pfleger Professor of Law, The Law School, University of Southern California Gerald E. RosenUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Laurie L. LevinsonProfessor of Law, William M. Rains Fellow, Loyola Law School Professor David D. ColeProfessor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center Last Update: February 22, 2013
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