Publication is the eighth student-operated journal at the Law School
Summer, 2012 – The George Washington University Law School will become home to the Federal Communications Law Journal (FCLJ) of the Federal Communications Bar Association—enhancing both the school’s already prominent list of scholarly journals and its expertise in communications law. GW Law won a competitive bidding process to house the journal beginning this summer. The first issue will be released in January, 2013.
“GW Law has long been a national leader in communications, information technology, and internet law and policy, and this new collaboration with the Federal Communications Bar will further cement our extraordinary integration of theory and practice in this crucial and constantly changing field,” said Dean Paul Schiff Berman. “GW Law is poised to expand the reach and impact of this great journal, and we are excited to take the reins.”
In its letter encouraging the Federal Communications Bar Association Law Journal Committee to allow GW Law to host the FCLJ, GW Law’s Student Bar Association and the Cyberlaw Students Association highlighted GW Law’s distinguishing characteristics that will ensure continuing success of the FCLJ and bolster its already excellent reputation. The students emphasized GW Law’s national reputation in the legal community for excellence and high achievement and the school’s energetic and committed students who are deeply interested in issues concerning the communications industry and in producing superior journal writing.
“The FCLJ saw in our school what we students already knew: each day, GW students leave the classroom to put the law in action at the forefront of national discourse. It’s why we came to GW,” said then-SBA President Nick Nikic, J.D. ’12.
The addition of the FCLJ to GW Law’s diverse journal list demonstrates the broad scope of legal expertise at GW Law and the outstanding commitment and engagement of the student body in advancing both legal scholarship and the legal profession in all areas of practice. There are now eight student-operated journals housed at GW Law: The Federal Communications Law Journal joins The George Washington Law Review, The George Washington International Law Review, The American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal, Federal Circuit Bar Journal, International Law in Domestic Courts, The Public Contract Law Journal, and The Journal of Energy and Environmental Law.