RWU Law Review Sets Ambitious Agenda
Top honors for a law student is the chance to work on the law review. Such student-edited academic journals have been around for more than a century, and they continue to be the place where most legal academics publish the fruits of their scholarly endeavors. (And the RWU Law faculty is very good at this, ranking #5 in New England in a recent survey.)
Volume 15 of the Roger Williams Law Review will have three issues.
Economy in Transition, a national-focus issue, is scheduled for an April publication. Contributing authors include Professor Dan Friedson from the University of Pittsburgh, Fidelma Fitzpatrick from the leading law firm of Motley-Rice, Professor Russell Engler from the New England School of Law, Elizabeth Alvarez from the Central Dallas Ministries Law Office, and Roger Williams’ own Professors William Delaney and George Nnona. The issue will address the legal and related social impacts of the recent, and in many regards, continuing economic crisis.
Scheduled for a May publication, Volume 15, No. 2 will focus on legal developments in Rhode Island. As done annually, the Rhode Island issue will present a compendium of surveys with commentary of recent RI Supreme Court decisions. Cognizant of national discourse, this year’s Rhode Island edition puts a special focus on health care. Article contributors include Rhode Island Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Roberts, Associate Judge Laureen A. D’Ambra of the RI Family Court, Patricia Sullivan from Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, Gerry Goulet from Hinkley Allen & Snyder, and RWU Adjunct Professor John Cogan, Counsel for the RI Health Insurance Commissioner.
Volume 15, No. 3 will report upon the upcoming symposium on Judicial Selection coordinated by Professor Michael Yelnosky. The edition will publish the four presenter articles (John Marion, the Executive Director of Common Cause of Rhode Island; Professor Rachel Caufield from Drake University; Empirical Research Associate Mirya Holman from Duke University School of Law; and Professor Yelnosky). In a first for the law review, transcribed and edited response commentaries to the symposium presenters will be included within the publication.
Finally, the law review is already at work preparing for publication of the first issue of Volume 16, which will provide coverage of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law, held at RWU in October and organized by RWU Professor Ed Eberle.
Here is a photo of the Executive Board of this year’s RWU Law Review.
Left to Right: Julie Moore (Articles Editor), Brian Fielding (Editor-in-Chief), Melissa McGow (Executive Notes and Comments Editor), Matt Watson (Executive Articles Editor), Kelly Noble (Rhode Island Editor), Dana Merkel
(Managing Editor), Derek Cournoyer (Articles Editor), Staci Buss (Notes and Comments Editor), Dan Morton-Bentley (Articles Editor), Jessica Schachter (Notes and Comments Editor)
