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 2 (2018)
Front Matter
Articles
Quarantine and the Federal Role in EpidemicsMichael R. Ulrich and Wendy K. Mariner391
Panel Effects in Administrative Law: A Study of Rules, Standards, and Judicial WhistleblowingMorgan Hazelton, Kristin E. Hickman, and Emerson Tiller445
The Enforceability of Consent-to-Assign Provisions in Texas Oil and Gas LeasesT. Ray Guy and Jason Wright477
Monitoring Behavior: Universities, Nonprofits, Patents, and LitigationTeo Firpo and Michael S. Mireles505
Case Notes
“You’re Not Gonna Reach My Telephone”— The Resurgence of the Fourth Amendment’s Particularity RequirementTammie Beassie Banko575
What’s in a Name?: Proving Actual Damages for Reputational Harm in Texas Defamation Cases Will Only Get HarderAustin Brakebill583
Second Amendment: D.C. Circuit Court Creates Split on the Constitutionality of Good-Reason LawsMadeleine Giese591
Extraterritoriality and the Alien Tort Statute— Narrow Application Preserves Crucial BoundariesAlicia Pitts607
Cancelled Credit Cards: Substantial Risk of Future Injury as a Basis for Standing in Data Breach CasesJennifer Wilt615