Administrative Law Review

The Administrative Law Review was established in 1948 and is the official law journal of the American Bar Association Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.

Overview

The journal is a quarterly publication managed and edited by approximately 90 students at the Washington College of Law. The 2024–2025 editor-in-chief is Jason D'Antonio.
The journal is ranked 60th out of 1,556 nationally-ranked law journals. For specialty law journals, the journal is ranked 7th out of 1,224. In the category of Administrative Law, it is ranked 2nd.
The journal has been cited by the United States [Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit], and since 2000 has been cited by the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal. It also continues to be cited by the Supreme Court of [the United States].

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 2.059.

Admissions

The journal selects staff members based on a competitive exercise that tests candidates on their editing, research, legal-analysis, and legal-writing skills. There is not a preset number of accepted candidates each year; recent classes of new editors have ranged from about 45 to 50. The candidate "write-on" exercise is distributed to candidates during their second semester at the law school. An optional "grade-on" process allows students to become staff members based solely on their grades. Transfer students are also eligible for admission through a fall write-on process.