South Texas Law Review

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The South Texas Law Review is a student-edited journal of legal scholarship published at South Texas College of Law, a private, independent law school in downtown Houston, Texas. The Law Review began publication in 1954.

[edit] Scope of publication

The Law Review publishes four issues annually, typically in Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer. South Texas Law Review publishes scholarly works by law professors, judges and practicing attorneys as well as student-written comments and case notes.

Notably, South Texas Law Review has published articles written by five United States Supreme Court Justices: Justice Arthur Goldberg, Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Justice William H. Rehnquist, Justice John Paul Stevens, and Justice Clarence Thomas.

[edit] Symposium issues

South Texas Law Review has published 36 symposium issues in its history on a wide range of topics. Since 1994, the Law Review and the law school have hosted an annual ethics symposium each fall, which includes a conference where the papers are presented. The papers are then published by the Law Review in a subsequent volume.

The Law Review's annual ethics symposia have included the following topics:

• The Attorney-Client Relationship in a Regulated Society (1994)
• Ethics and the Multijurisdictional Practice of Law (1995)
• The Lawyer's Duties and Liabilities to Third Parties (1996)
• The Lawyer's Duties and Responsibilities in Dispute Resolution (1997)
• Ethical Obligations and Liabilities Arising from Lawyers' Professional Associations (1998)
• The Lawyer's Duty to Promote the Common Good (1999)
• Symposium on Judicial Ethics (2000)
• The Ethics of Law Professors (2001)
• The Ethics of Litigation (2002)
• The Ethics of Law Students (2003)
• Judge and Jury (2004)
• Prosecutorial Ethics (2005)
• Centennial Reflections on Roscoe Pound's 1906 Address to the American Bar Association (2006)

[edit] External links

• South Texas College of Law
• South Texas Law Review