George Mason Law Review

The George Mason Law Review is a student run academic journal. [ [http://www.law.gmu.edu/gmulawreview/index.php The George Mason Law Review Homepage] ] Members edit and publish articles written by professors, practitioners, and students that contribute to the field of legal scholarship. Four issues are published each year.

History

The George Mason University School of Law ("GMUSL") was formerly the International School of Law, whose student-run publication, the International School of Law Law Review began in 1976. When the school became GMUSL in 1979, the publication became the George Mason University Law Review.

In 1992, GMUSL's Dean "Henry Manne" spearheaded an effort to bring the Law Review under faculty control, as he believed students were too unseasoned to edit legal scholarship. The Dean wished to focus efforts on the faculty-controlled "Supreme Court Economic Review". This was met with resistance from the student body. As a concession, the Dean allowed the students to continue to run the George Mason University Law Review as a publication solely for student articles and distribution within the school. In the interest of preserving the Law Review as a fully circulated journal, the Editor-in-Chief at the time, Arthur Schmalz, and Student Bar Association President Christian Curtis led the creation of another journal, the George Mason Independent Law Review. In 1995, the Dean again permitted a fully circulated student-run publication and the journal became known as the present-day George Mason Law Review. Before their dissolution in 1995, the George Mason Independent Law Review published six issues and the modified George Mason University Law Review published three issues.

Membership selection

Using a competitive process that takes into account first-year grades and performance on a writing exercise, the George Mason Law Review offers membership to somewhere between 10-12 percent of the first year law school class.

George Mason Law Review Annual Symposium on Antitrust

Each year, the Law Review holds a symposium on Antitrust Law, held in Washington, DC. [ [http://www.law.gmu.edu/gmulawreview/symposium/ George Mason Law Review Antitrust Symposium] ] The symposium consists of a keynote address by a leader in the field, and two panels discussing new aspects of antitrust law. Past speakers have included J. Thomas Rosch, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission, Thomas O. Barnett, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Competition, and others. The Law Review publishes an issue dedicated to the symposium.

Notable Articles

Notable and widely-cited articles published in the Review include:

*Hausman, J. A., and G. K. Leonard. “Economic Analysis of Differentiated Products Mergers Using Real World Data.” Geo. Mason L. Rev. 5 (1996): 321.
*Nelson, R. H. “Privatizing the Neighborhood: A Proposal to Replace Zoning with Private Collective Property Rights to Existing Neighborhoods.” Geo. Mason L. Rev. 7 (1998): 827.
*Shapiro, C. “Exclusivity in Network Industries.” Geo. Mason L. Rev. 7 (1998): 673.

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