Wisconsin law review

Wisconsin law review is published by University of Wisconsin Law School and is in Zone 4 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Legal Systems and Judicial Processes, American Constitutional Law and Politics and Judicial and Constitutional Studies, together about 38.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Law. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Wisconsin Law Review Journal The Wisconsin Law Review is a student-run journal of legal analysis and commentary that is used by professors, judges, practitioners, and others researching contemporary legal topics. The Wisconsin Law Review, which is published six times each year, includes professional and student articles, with content spanning local, state, national, and international topics. In addition to publishing the print journal, the Wisconsin Law Review publishes the Wisconsin Law Review Forward and sponsors an annual symposium at which leading scholars debate a significant issue in contemporary law. University of Wisconsin Law School students and faculty founded the Wisconsin Law Review in 1920. In 1935, students were designated as its sole editors. Hundreds of copies of the Wisconsin Law Review are distributed to subscribers worldwide. Each issue typically contains two or three professional articles and two or three student articles that address timely and relevant legal topics. The Wisconsin Law Review usually publishes one special issue each year. Recent special issues include our Symposium Issues: Beyond the Sentence: Collateral Consequences of Conviction (Volume 2015, Issue 2), Safety and Sustainability in the Era of Food Systems: Reaching a More Integrated Approach (Volume 2014, Issue 2), and Thirty Years of Comparative Institutional Analysis: A Celebration of Neil Komesar (Volume 2013, Issue 2). More information regarding the history of the Wisconsin Law Review is available in two articles prepared on our 75th anniversary: John S. Skilton, Turning the Pages, 1995 Wis. L. Rev. 1461, and Michael H. Wussow, A Law Review for Wisconsin, 1995 Wis. L. Rev. 1475. WLR Forward Wisconsin Law Review Forward is an online only publication intended to move conversations in legal academia forward by providing a forum for the quick publication of topical and timely pieces that would otherwise be delayed by our production schedule for print issues. Many of our online pieces are short response pieces to larger pieces published in our print edition and all are shorter works commenting on larger topics in legal academia.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Law

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

0.87LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

1.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.23LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.75LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

24LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

10OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

13OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.04OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

9.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

41LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

University of Wisconsin Law School

Country or region

UNITED STATES

ISSN

0043-650X

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗LetPub