SMU Law Review
Published four times each year, the SMU Law Review reaches law schools, attorneys, and judges throughout the United States and abroad. Each issue includes articles by prominent legal scholars and practitioners dealing with significant questions of local, national, and international law. In addition, articles by students analyze recent cases, statutes, and developments in the law. The SMU Law Review also sponsors the annual SMU Corporate Counsel Symposium on current developments in corporate law. The symposium attracts corporate practitioners from throughout the United States.
The SMU Law Review began in 1947 as Texas Law and Legislation. The journal then published under the name Southwestern Law Journal in 1948 and has been published as the SMU Law Review since 1992. 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 Journal of Air Law and Commerce and the SMU Annual Texas Survey.
Current Issue: Volume 78, Issue 4 (2025)
Front Matter
Articles
After Identity: Reverse Discrimination, Anti-Essentialism, and the Future of Title VIIMaayan Sudai and Lihi Yona881
Guilty Pleas Matter: Waivers and the Forgotten Solemnity of a Sacred ProcessJulian A. Cook III935
Improving Regulatory NoticeJoshua Ulan Galperin and E. Donald Elliott985
Agency Capture in Immigration LawShalini Bhargava Ray1045
Comments
Protect My Property, Not My Privacy!: How a Recent Circuit Split Illustrates the Need to Reinstate the Traditional Property-Based Fourth Amendment FrameworkMary Katherine Smith1097
You’ve Got Mail—Or Not? The Deepening, Decades-Long Circuit Split Surrounding the Tax Filing Mailbox RuleColton Franks1183
Crypto Chaos in the Courtroom: Navigating Bankruptcy’s Digital Gold RushGrayson Timmins1211
The Granny Flat Rebellion: Preempting Local ADU RestrictionsAndrew Welch1239
