Founded in 1901 by Joseph E. Corrigan, the first Editor-in-Chief, and John M. Woolsey, the Secretary, the Columbia Law Review is a leader in legal scholarship in the United States and around the world. The Review is an independent nonprofit corporation edited and published entirely by students at Columbia Law School. It is one of a handful of student-edited law journals in the nation that publish eight issues a year. The Review is the third most widely distributed and cited law review in the country. It receives about 1,500 submissions a year and selects approximately 25 manuscripts for publication. A recent ranking of law reviews based on author prominence concluded that the Columbia Law Review ranked first among all law reviews in the nation.
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