The University of Pennsylvania Law Review is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new online venture: PENNumbra. Accessible at www.pennumbra.com, PENNumbra seeks to engage a broader audience in legal scholarship by serving as a link between legal academia and the "blogosphere."
The site features downloadable articles from the print edition of the Law Review, brief scholarly responses to those articles, and online debates on topics of current interest. Visitors to PENNumbra are invited to participate by posting their own comments to the site.
Penn Law School Dean Michael A. Fitts said "I congratulate the Law Review on the launch of PENNumbra—a terrific project with a new look that appropriately reflects Penn Law’s dedication to innovation in legal scholarship."
Justin C. Danilewitz, Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review, said "PENNumbra is a refreshing new venue for the interplay of conventional academic scholarship and commentary from the lay public. It signals Penn Law Review‘s commitment to being at the forefront of an exciting evolution in legal scholarship, while maintaining our traditional strengths as the nation’s oldest law review." Danilewitz congratulated the new staff of Volume 155 for seeing the venture through to launch, and thanked the journal’s predecessors for laying a solid foundation.
Featured in the debut edition of PENNumbra are:
· Marci A. Hamilton and Mark Tushnet, responding to Erwin Chemerinsky’s Assessing Chief Justice William Rehnquist
· Frank Goodman and Theodore Ruger, responding to Jack M. Balkin & Reva B. Siegal’s Principles, Practices, and Social Movements
· Dan Markel, responding to Wayne A. Logan’s Horizontal Federalism in an Age of Criminal Justice Interconnectedness
· Ann M. Bartow, responding to Daniel J. Solove’s A Taxonomy of Privacy
· Lyle Denniston, responding to Linda Greenhouse’s How Not To Be Chief Justice: The Apprenticeship of William Rehnquist
· William Burke-White and Abraham Bell, debating the United Nations’ continued relevance to the development of international law
Founded in 1852 as the American Law Register, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review is the nation’s oldest law review. In the 2006-2007 academic year, the Law Review will publish its 155th volume.