Women's Rights Law Reporter
Abbreviated title (ISO 4) | WRLR |
|---|---|
| Discipline | Law review |
| Language | English |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher |
Women's Rights Law Reporter (United States) |
Publication history | 1970-present |
| Frequency | quarterly |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN |
1942-6755 |
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The Women's Rights Law Reporter is a journal of legal scholarship published by an independent student group at Rutgers School of Law—Newark. The journal provides a forum for exploring law and public policy relating to women’s rights and gender. The journal is published quarterly. The Editors in Chief for 2015-2016 are Chloe Gogo and Marny Hearn.
History and focus
The journal was founded in 1970 by Rutgers law students and now Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. On its founding advisory board were Margot Champagne, Mary Eastwood, Riane Eisler, Ann Freedman, Jo Ann Evans Gardner, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Janice Goodman, Renee Hanover, Arthur Kinoy, Pauli Murray, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Bernice Handler, Diane B. Schulder, Faith Seidenberg, and Nancy Stearns. The journal is the first legal periodical in the United States to focus exclusively on the field of women’s rights law.