Established in 1967, the North Carolina Central Law Journal, changed its name to the North Carolina Central Law Review in the Spring of 2007. The Law Reviewis a legal periodical published twice a year, andcontains articles written by legal scholars, judges, practitioners and academics.? Past authors have included the Honorable Potter Stewart, United States Supreme Court Justice; Maynard Jackson, former mayor of the City of Atlanta; Harold R. Washington, former mayor of the City of Chicago; Daniel H. Pollitt, professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Edward Kennedy, United States Senator from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Rufus L. Edmisten, former Attorney General for the State of North Carolina; Charles E. Daye, professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Clark C. Havighurst, professor of law at Duke University.? The Law Review also contains notes and comments written by students of the North Carolina Central University School of Law.
The Law Review serves several functions.? First, the article and student pieces analyze new law and examine changes in old law, alerting the legal community to the current and future status of the law.? Second, the Law Review serves as a practical research tool for judges, lawyers and students.? Third, the members of the Law Review receive an intensified education as a result of the legal research and critical legal analysis that they perform.
The Law Review has primarily published works relating to new or evolving areas of the law facing our nation's minorities. In addition, the Law Review has broadened its scope by publishing works on topics which are of state interest. |
