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 71, Issue 4 (2018)
Front Matter
Articles
RICO Run AmokJohn K. Cornwell1017
Richard Posner: A Class of OneRobert C. Farrell1041
The Icarus Syndrome: How Credit Rating Agencies Lost Their Quasi ImmunityNorbert Gaillard and Michael Waibel1077
Policing NarrativeTal Kastner1117
Comments
“Heal Thyself.”—An Argument for Granting Asylum to Healthcare Workers Persecuted During the 2014 West African Ebola CrisisBethany Echols1153
A Texas Two-Step in the Right Direction—Looking Beyond Recent Legislation to Improve the Provision of Special Education Services in TexasTaylor Michals1181
Avoiding the Alien Tort Statute: A Call for Uniformity in State Court Human Rights LitigationAlicia Pitts1209
Saving Grace: The Role of Religious Organizations in Disaster Recovery and the Constitutionality of Federal Funding to Rebuild ThemCheslea Till1233