History of the Connecticut Law Review

Connecticut Law Review is the oldest student-run organization at the University of Connecticut School of Law.  It began as the Board of Student Editors, which was established in 1947 to publish student-written material in the Connecticut Bar Journal.  The Board of Student Editors published its first section, entitled Comments on Recent Decisions, in Volume 21 of the Connecticut Bar Journal.  Later, the name of this section was changed to Comments: Recent Decisions and Statutes to reflect the expanded scope of the Board's work.  The Board of Student Editors became a member of the National Conference of Law Reviews in 1953.

In 1957, the section was renamed the Connecticut Law Review after Board members began publishing articles which commented on broad areas of law rather than on recent court decisions.  In total, the Board of Student Editors published 2,380 pages of student-written material in 83 issues of the Connecticut Bar Journal, spanning from Volume 21 through Volume 42.  As part of an effort to improve the national reputation of the University of Connecticut School of Law, Connecticut Law Review was established as a separate organization in 1968.  Although Connecticut Law Review originally published only two issues per year, that was later expanded to four, and currently Connecticut Law Review publishes five issues a year, including a symposium issue and a commentary issue.  This year marks the forty-second anniversary of Connecticut Law Review.