The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law is a scholarly journal focusing on issues of constitutional law published via print and electronic media by an organization of second- and third-year J.D. students at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law provides a forum for the interdisciplinary study of and rigorous analysis of constitutional law. To that end, The Journal cultivates innovative scholarship, promotes critical perspectives, and reinvents the traditional study of constitutional law. The Journal publishes five issues each volume, including an issue or issues devoted to the Journal's symposium. The Journal also has a relationship with the National Constitution Center and has an interdisciplinary relationship with Penn’s Political Science Department, School of Social Work, the Medical School, and the Wharton School.

The Journal is one of five major scholarly journals at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and one of the top fifty law journals in the United States based on citations and impact.[1]

The Journal is published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, site of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and home of the Liberty Bell, which graces the cover of the Journal.

Volume 10 of the Journal was led by Editor-in-Chief Nabeel Yousef and Managing Editor Doron P. Kenter.

Volume 11 of the Journal was led by Jeremy Adler as Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor, Kimberly Yuhas.

Volume 12 of the Journal will be led by its new Editor-in-Chief, Jonathan Adams, and Managing Editor, Andrea Engel.

[edit] Symposia

Each winter the Journal of Constitutional Law hosts a symposium focusing on popular topics in constitutional scholarship and featuring scholars of the law and related fields.

• 2009: "Presidential Power in Historical Perspective: Reflections on Calabresi and Yoo's The Unitary Executive," February 6-7, 2009
• 2008: "Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Litigating Under the Eighth Amendment," February 15-16, 2008
• 2007: "Positive Approaches to Constitutional Law and Theory"[2]
• 2006: "The Future of Unenumerated Rights"[3]
• 2005: "Law and Religion"[4]
• 2004: "Race Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court: Where Do We Go from Here?"[5]

[edit] Notable Articles

• Sanford Levinson, Diversity, 2 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 573 (2000)
• David C. Baldus et al., The Use of Preemptory Challenges in Capital Murder Trials: A Legal and Empirical Analysis, 3 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 3 (2001)
• Sandra Day O'Connor, The Supreme Court and the Family, 3 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 573 (2001)
• Randy E. Barnett, The Original Meaning of the Necessary and Proper Clause, 6 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 183 (2003)[6]
• Adam Raviv, Unsafe Harbors: One Person, One Vote and Partisan Redistricting, 7 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1001 (2005)
• Louis H. Pollak, "Liberty": Enumerated Rights? Unenumerated Rights? Penumbral Rights? Other?, 8 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 905 (2006)
• Brian R. Decker, "The War of Information": The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, and the President's Warrantless-Wiretapping Program, 9 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 291 (2006)[7]
• Laurence H. Tribe, Reflections on Unenumerated Rights, 9 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 483 (2007)
• Benjamin P. O'Glasser, "Constitutional, Political, and Philosophical Struggle: Measure 37 and the Oregon Urban Growth Boundary Controversy", 9 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 595 (2007)

[edit] External links

• University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law
• Home of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law