A recent survey conducted by the Washington & Lee University Law School has ranked the South Carolina Law Review as one of the nation's top legal journals. The 2005 Washington & Lee Survey ranked the Law Review 37th among all legal journals according to frequency of judicial citation.

This ranking places the Law Review above the flagship journals of some of the nation's most-prominent law schools, including the law reviews of Emory (ranked 51st), Washington & Lee (ranked 67th), Wake Forest (ranked 49th), and Georgia (ranked 43rd). The Survey also ranked the Law Review 76th among all journals according to frequency of citation in other legal journals. The Survey included over 1,000 legal periodicals in its results.

"The results of the 2005 Survey demonstrate that the South Carolina Law Review has a strong and growing impact on legal scholarship," said Nicholas Green, Editor in Chief of the South Carolina Law Review. "I am proud," he noted, "of the influence our Law Review, and our state, has in shaping legal developments across the nation."

The 2005 Survey rankings represent an improvement on the South Carolina Law Review's already high marks. The 2004 Survey ranked the Law Review 39th among all journals according to frequency of judicial citation and 90th according to frequency of journal citation. The complete Washington & Lee Law School Survey of Most-Cited Periodicals is located here.

Founded in 1948, the South Carolina Law Review is the oldest legal publication in South Carolina and the flagship legal journal of the University of South Carolina School of Law. Completely student-edited and managed, the Law Review publishes scholarly law-related articles and essays of national and regional importance.