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 100 students at the Washington College of Law and published by the ABA. The current editor-in-chief is Mia D. Simon.
The journal is ranked 45th out of 1,556 nationally ranked law journals. For specialty law journals, the journal is ranked 4th out of 1,224. In the category of Administrative Law, it is ranked 2nd. The journal has been cited by the Supreme Court of the United States,West Virginia v. EPA 597 U.S. ___ n.6 (2022), Kisor v. Wilkie, 588 U.S. ___ n.36 (2019), Verizon Communications Inc. v. FCC, 535 U.S. 467, 516 (2002), Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919, 955 n.19 (1983). United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (which is known as the administrative law circuit),National Mining Ass'n v. Mine Safety and Health Admin., 512 F.3d 696, 700 (D.C. Cir. 2008), Central Texas Telephone Co-op., Inc. v. FCC, 402 F.3d 205, 210-11 (D.C. Cir. 2005). and since 2000 has been cited by the Second,Sweet v. Sheahan, 235 F.3d 80, 88 (2d Cir. 2000). Third,Manella v. Comm'r, 631 F.3d 115, 130 (3rd Cir. 2011) (Ambro, J. Dissenting). Fourth,U.S. v. Duke Energy Corp., 411 F.3d 539, 548 n.6 (4th Cir. 2005). Fifth,Walton v. Rose Mobile Homes LLC, 298 F.3d 470, 490 (5th Cir. 2005). Sixth,State Farm Bank, FSB v. Reardon, 539 F.3d 336, 341 n.2 (6th Cir. 2008). Seventh,Hermann v.Colvin, 772 F.3d 1110, 1113 (7th Cir. 2014). Ninth,U.S. v. Kriesel, 508 F.3d 941, 945 (9th Cir. 2007). Tenth,Dalton v. U.S. Dep't of Labor, 58 Fed. App'x 442, 445 (10th Cir. 2003), and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal.Andrews v. Warden, 958, F.3d 1072, 1078 (11th Cir. 2020). The ALR has also been cited by multiple state supreme courts.
In addition to the print publication, the journal has an online publication called The ALR Accord and a podcast on current topics in administrative law called A Hard Look.
Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in: Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences EBSCO databases HeinOnline ProQuest databases Scopus Social Sciences Citation Index 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.
Notable Citations +United States Supreme CourtChiles v. Salazar2026Learning Resources v. Trump2026FCC v. Consumers' Research2025Bondi v. Vanderstok2025Loper Bright v. Raimondo2024Biden v. Nebraska2023West Virginia v. EPA2022Buffington v. McDonough2022DHS v. Regents of University of California2020Biestek v. Berryhill2019Paul v. United States2019Kisor v. Wilkie2019
Notable Alumni
Robert White (Washington, D.C., politician), Volume 59 Andrew Guhr, Director and Associate General Counsel, Infrastructure and Telecomm at Meta, Volume 61
Editors in Chief Mia D. Simon2026-2027Volume 79Matt Floyd2025-2026Volume 78Jason D'Antonio2024-2025Volume 77Madison Gestiehr 2023-2024Volume 76Jacob W. Wohl2022-2023Volume 75Caroline Trabucco2021-2022Volume 74Sara Talebian2020-2021Volume 73Emily Osofsky2019-2020Volume 72Caroline Raschbaum2018-2019Volume 71Jonathan Heinz2017-2018Volume 70Ross Handler2016-2017Volume 69Neil Murphy2015-2016Volume 68Wenxi Li2014-2015Volume 67Sara Lacy2013-2014Volume 66Andy Kawel2008-2009Volume 61
References
External links
American Bar Association: Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice