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 75, Issue 4 (2022)
Front Matter
Articles
The Flubs that Bind: Stare Decisis and the Problem of Indeliberate Doctrinal Misstatements in Appellate OpinionsRichard Luedeman725
Bostock: A Clean Cut into the Gordian Knot of CausationMelissa Essary769
AI, Equity, and the IP GapDaryl Lim815
Comments
Psychologically Bound: Why Expert Evidence Regarding Battered Woman Syndrome Should Be AdmissibleChrista Bunce861
The Law’s Role in Ending the Suicide Crisis: Liability for Suicide Under the State-Created Danger DoctrineBrittany White887
May I Use The Restroom? The Supreme Court’s Likely Opportunity to Define “Sex” in Title IX and End the Transgender Bathroom DebateKaleb Degler917
Working Toward Break Point: Professional Tennis and the Growing Problem with Employee and Independent Contractor MisclassificationsElizabeth Priest943
Boss Mom: Why Texas Should Revise Its Legislation to Allow Gestational Surrogacy Contract Enforcement for Social SurrogaciesKrista Thompson973