HISTORY & MISSION
Kentucky Law Journal has been continuously published since 1913, five years after the founding of the University of Kentucky College of Law. At that time, books were released monthly. Early issues included book reviews, alumni notes, commentaries on recent cases, and articles by such prominent authors as abolitionist Cassius M. Clay and President William Howard Taft.
The Journal began its current practice of quarterly publication in 1919. Over the past century, the Journal has emphasized scholarly, legal analysis of issues of interest to students, practicing attorneys, professors, judges, and government officials. As stated by one Editorial Board: “It is hoped and believed that ensuing years will see the Kentucky Law Journal grow from strength to strength and that it will exert, as it has already begun to do, a helpful influence upon the bar and bench of this Commonwealth.”
Today, the Journal continues its commitment to serve the legal and academic community as a forum for vigorous debate about the law. But the Journal also serves as an indispensable element in the education of the best students at the College of Law. The Journal affords these students the finest form of training in legal research and writing, and, by publishing student works, the Journal also functions as an elegant forum for students’ activism.