About US

The SMU Law Review, formerly the Southwestern Law Journal, is published four times each year and reaches law schools, attorneys, and judges throughout the United States and abroad. Each issue includes articles by prominent legal scholars and practitioners dealing with significant questions of local, national, and international law. In addition, articles by students analyze recent cases, statutes, and developments in the law. Each year one issue of the SMU Law Review is devoted to an Annual Survey of Texas Law and contains articles by attorneys, law professors, and judges concerning current developments in the law of Texas. All editing is done by the board of editors, the members of whom receive academic credit for their work. The SMU Law Review also sponsors an annual symposium on current developments in corporate law. Selected papers from the symposium are published in one of its issues. The symposium attracts corporate practitioners from Texas and the southwestern United States.

Annual Survey of Texas Law

The Annual Survey of Texas Law provides an overview of recent Texas case law and legislation. This edition features articles on 31 specialized areas of law, written by practitioners and experts in each field. In addition to the practice areas traditionally covered by the Survey, this year's edition includes articles on attorney's fees, business torts, conflict of laws, energy regulation, family law: parent and child, real property, Texas securities law, wills and trusts, and zoning and land use.