The Suffolk University Law Review is a law review published at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts by an independent student group.
The law review's membership consists entirely of second and third year law students at Suffolk University Law School. These students are selected from an annual writing competition, and eligibility to compete is based on exceptional first-year grades. Suffolk University Law Review was established in 1967[1] and publishes all of its articles in both print form and online.[2]
The Suffolk University Law Review sponsors the Donahue Lecture Series, which annually attracts lecturers from among the nation's top legal scholars and jurists. Each Donahue Lecturer is an exceptionally prominent legal scholar who delivers a lecture at Suffolk University Law School that forms the basis for a Lead Article to be published in the Law Review shortly thereafter.
The Law Review instituted this lecture series in 1980 to commemorate the Honorable Frank J. Donahue, former faculty member, trustee, and treasurer of Suffolk University. Judge Donahue graduated from Suffolk University Law School in 1921, and served as an Associate Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts for forty-two years - the longest term in that court's history. As Chairman of the Law School Committee of the Board of Trustees, Judge Donahue played an active role in the expansion of the faculty, library, and other facilities at the law school. For many years, he served as president of the Law School Alumni Association, and in that capacity personally raised thousands of dollars of scholarship funds to promote, encourage, and reward the pursuit of scholastic excellence.
Over the years, the Donahue Lecture Series has featured a number of outstanding legal scholars and jurists, including: Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Associate Justices Antonin Scalia, Stephen Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor, Judge Richard Posner, former United States Attorney General Edwin Meese, and consumer protection activist Ralph Nader.[3]
The Following is a Representative, but Currently Incomplete List of Prior Donahue Lecturers
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Bernard Schwartz | Webb Professor of Law, New York University Law School |
| Peter L. Strauss | Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law |
| A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. | United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit |
| Philip B. Kurland | William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Law School |
| Theodore J. St. Antoine | James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School |
| G. Edward White | Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law |
| Grant Gilmore | Professor of Law, Vermont Law School |
| Lawrence M. Friedman | Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law, Stanford Law School |
| Antonin Scalia | Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court |
| John E. Nowak | Professor of Law, University of Illinois School of Law |
| Edward D. Re | Chief Judge of the United States Court of International Trade |
| Derrick A. Bell, Jr. | Dean, University of Oregon School of Law |
| Paul R. Verkuil | Dean of the Law School, Tulane University School of Law |
| Raoel Berger | Charles Warren Senior Fellow, Harvard University Law School |
| Jerold S. Auerbach | Professor and Chairman of the History Department, Wellesley College |
| Dorothy W. Nelson | United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
| Jerome A. Barron | Dean of the George Washington University National Law Center |
| Richard A. Posner | United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit |
| William H. Rehnquist | Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court |
| Ronald D. Rotunda | Professor of Law, University of Illinois |
| Ralph Nader | Lawyer and Consumer Protection Activist |
| Irving Younger | Marvin J. Sonosky Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School |
| Constance Baker Motley | United States District Court for the Southern District of New York |
| L. Kinvin Wroth | Dean of the University of Maine School of Law |
| Lino A. Graglia | Rex G. Baker and Edna Heflin Baker Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Texas School of Law |
| Charles E. Rice | Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Law School |
| Jules B. Gerard | Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law |
| Bernard H. Siegan | Distinguished Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law |
| Edwin Meese III | Former United States Attorney General |
| Sarah Weddington | Lawyer and Lecturer, University of Texas and Texas Women's University |
| Stephen Breyer | United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, now Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court |
| Stanley Sporkin | United States District Judge for the District of Columbia |
| Louis Fisher | Senior Specialist in Separation of Powers Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress |
| Jack Greenberg | Dean of Columbia University |
| Patricia McGowan Wald | United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia |
| Cass R. Sunstein | Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago Law School |
| Owen M. Fiss | Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Public Law, Yale University Law School |
| Rodney A. Smolla | Arthur B. Hanson Professor of Law and Director, Institute of Bill of Rights Law, College of William and Mary, Marshall-Whythe School of Law |
| Douglas J. Whaley | James W. Shocknessy Professor of Law, Ohio State University College of Law |
| Shirley S. Abrahamson | Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court |
| A.E. Dick Howard | White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs, University of Virginia |
| E. Allan Farnsworth | Alfred McCormack Professor of Law, Columbia University |
| Michael J. Perry | Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law, Northwestern University Law School |
| A. Kim Cambell | Former Canadian Prime Minister |
| George P. Fletcher | Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence, Columbia University School of Law |
| Emma Coleman Jordan | Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center |
| Paul B. Stephan, III | Percy Brown, Jr. Professor of Law and the Hunton & Williams, Research Professor, University of Virginia |
| Bruce M. Selya | United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit |
| Sonia Sotomayor | United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, now Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court |
| Daniel R. Coquillette | Former Dean and Professor of Law, Boston College Law School |
| Akhil Reed Amar | Southmayd Professor of Law, Yale Law School |
| Charles Fried | Associate Justice for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court |
| Patti B. Saris | United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts |
| Richard J. Leon | Partner, Baker & Hostetler, now District Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
| Alex Kozinski | United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
| Edward D. Re | Chief Judge Emeritus for the United States Court of International Trade and Distinguished Professor of Law, St. John's University School of Law |
| Nancy Gertner | United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts |
| Loren A. Smith | Chief Judge of the United States Court of Claims |
| Erwin Chemerinsky | Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Southern California Law Center |
| Joyce London Alexander | United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts |
| Dean Alice Gresham Bullock | Dean and Professor, Howard University School of Law |
| Sandra L. Lynch | United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit |
| Charles H. Whitebread | George T. Pfleger Professor of Law, The Law School, University of Southern California |
| Gerald E. Rosen | United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan |
| Laurie L. Levinson | Professor of Law, William M. Rains Fellow, Loyola Law School |
| Professor David D. Cole | Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center |