CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW

The journal was established in 1950 and is the Columbus School of Law's oldest legal journal. Recent issues have featured analysis on such topics as the legal status of records and archives in war, the proper role of poverty in determining an indigent defendant's civil right to counsel, the material-support bar and the challenges it poses for modern immigration practitioners, the correct standard of proof for incapacity will contests, a fiftieth anniversary review of the Steelworkers Trilogy, the battle over Passenger Name Records and its role in the attempted Christmas Day bombing, and the application of sound negotiation theory to the written demand. The Catholic University Law Review publishes articles, book reviews, and essays, in addition to notes and comments written by student staff members.[1] Its 2016 impact factor is 0.309, ranking it 125th among 149 journals listed in the "Law" category of the Journal Citation Reports.[2]