When Fordham University School of Law launched the Fordham Law Review in 1914, it was among the first dozen law reviews in the country. To commemorate its 100th anniversary, the Board of Editors selected six of the most influential articles published by the Law Review in its first century and republished one piece in each of its Centennial issues.
In the March 2015 edition (Vol. 83, No. 4), the Law Review republished a 1998 article by ALI Council member Gerard E. Lynch, now a judge on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and previously a longtime professor at Columbia Law School. The article, “Our Administrative System of Criminal Justice,” is among the most cited works in the Law Review’s history. In it, Lynch sets out to illustrate “how the practice of plea bargaining blurs the boundaries between adversarial and inquisitorial criminal justice systems.” Read the full article.