DENVER LAW REVIEW
1923​
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In December 1923, Volume 1 of the Denver Law Review was published. Then called the Denver Bar Association Record, the journal was initially operated solely by the Denver Bar Association ("DBA") and featured financial and substantive updates by the DBA and its subcommittees. For Volume 4, in 1927, the DBA began publishing articles authored by Denver-based attorneys.
1928​
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In 1928, for Volume 6, the journal was rebranded as Dicta. Led by our first Editor in Chief S. Arthur Henry, Volume 6 marks the beginning of our journal as a national academic publication for wide consumption. As the Volume 6 Editorial Board noted at the outset of this revamped journal, "[it] was felt that the old Record had evolved from the modest pamphlet which it was at the beginning of its career into a magazine of substance."
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1943​
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In Volume 20, Dicta published its first article from a United States Supreme Court Justice. Associate Justice Rutledge's address delivered at the forty-sixth annual meeting place of the Colorado Bar Association was his second piece published by Dicta and his first act as a sitting Justice.
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1946​
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"Upon my return to the United States after witnessing the Nuremberg trials, I was shocked to learn there are those in the United States who opposed these trials."
In Volume 23, then-U.S. Attorney General and future United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom C. Clark published a commentary on his attendance at the Nuremberg Trials and recent improvements on the domestic federal judiciary.
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1950​
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Over the next 20 volumes, Dicta published ten to fourteen issues annually. Volume 27 marks the beginning of the University of Denver College of Law's involvement with the DBA, as well as the Colorado Bar Association, which had joined in the 1930s.
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1963​
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Volume 40 marked another name change for the journal. The title Denver Law Center Journal contextualized the Board of Student Editors of the now law student-led publication.
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1965​
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In Volume 42, consumer advocate and future presidential candidate Ralph Nader discussed the need for the law to catch up to automobile design. Mr. Nader reappeared in the Denver Law Review twenty-three years later, this time analyzing injured victims' rights.
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1966​
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"We hope to justify your confidence in us by continuing the recent improvements which have been made in both the quality and the size of the Journal."
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In 1966, the University of Denver Sturm College of Law became the sole publisher of the Denver Law Journal.
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1973​
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A watershed moment for our annual symposium, in 1973, Justice Douglas wrote the foreword for Denver Law Journal's Symposium issue. The Volume 50 Symposium was called: The Denver Public Defender.
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"This Denver Law Journal Symposium is only a start on many bristling problems in the field. But the beginning is excellent, and a challenge in all who follow to use like standards of excellence in appraising the elusive, raw material they encounter when they start a study of a particular court or particular community."
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1975​
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In an early iteration of our annual Tenth Circuit issue, Justice White wrote the foreword for Volume 52, Issue 1: Tenth Circuit Surveys.
"The interests of the Denver Law Journal in the work of the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit is very welcome. . . The Journal's annual review will provide a valuable resource for practitioners all across the country."
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2008​
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In 2008, Volume 86 published a special fifth issue focused exclusively on the subject of judicial accountability, with a feature article written by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
"The issue of the Denver University Law Review is devoted to an important subject: judicial accountability. Properly understood, judicial accountability is a fundamental democratic requirement of our federal and State governments. Put simply, judges must be accountable to the public for their constitutional role of applying the law fairly and importantly."
2020-22​
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In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic shut down law schools across America. Students quickly learned to adapt, attending classes online, wearing masks, and participating in social distancing in class. To keep its students, authors, and participants safe from harm, Denver Law Review held its first-ever entirely remote Symposium: Critical Race Perspectives on Gender, Identity, and Culture in the Law. Volume 86 published a special fifth issue focused exclusively on the subject of judicial accountability, with a feature article written by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
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