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The Florida A & M University (FAMU) Law Review is a student-run organization at the Florida A & M University College of Law. Our main purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship for use by practitioners, judges, professors, and students. FAMU Law Review currently publishes one journal a year. We are functionally independent from the College of Law, with the student editors making all editorial, organizational, and day-to-day operational decisions.
Law Review is dedicated to quality and consistency in its publication. For that reason, we put each article accepted for publication through a rigorous editing process, whereby student editors perform cite checks, review the grammar and diction of a piece, and make those stylistic changes that will enhance an article’s substance and flow.
FAMU Law Review strives to serve as an excellent resource for scholarly and practical research, in both daily legal practice and academic writing. We also strive to provide our student editors with the opportunity to advance their legal research, writing, and editing skills. Therefore, the Law Review contains articles written by students, as well as by practitioners, judges, and professors.
FAMU Law Review’s success depends upon the expertise and hard work of legal scholars. We sincerely hope that you will consider FAMU Law Review for your current and future submissions, and we thank you for your interest in our organization.
Vice President Kamala Harris once said, “The American Dream belongs to all of us.” It is in consideration of these soul-shaking words that Volume 17 is entitled “The American Dream Belongs to All of Us.” Volume 17 will be produced around the centralized theme of attaining access to opportunity for all Americans – including essays and articles which expose the many ways that the American Dream has been only an elusive hope for racialized populations. We are accepting all submissions that include either the traditional or contemporary definition of civil rights and will be accepting submissions on a rolling basis.