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About the Journal
“There you have it, the right-wing conspiracy.”
- The Washington Post, 1998
The Texas Review of Law & Politics publishes thoughtful and intellectually rigorous conservative articles—articles that traditional law reviews often fail to publish—that can serve as blueprints for constructive legal reform. The journal aims to serve as the prime forum for the discussion and debate of contemporary social issues such as constitutional history, affirmative action, crime, federalism, and religion.
Advancing Conservative Ideology
A conservative network, not just a law journal
The Review also seeks to connect conservative-minded students with one another as well as with judges, legal practitioners, legislators, and other leaders with whom they share certain fundamental values. Further, the Review seeks to promote conservative viewpoints within the university setting by sponsoring speakers on campus. If you would like to join the network by disseminating your conservative ideas to young law students, provide direction to, or help launch the careers of future conservative leaders in any way, please contact the Review. Expanding this network is a key goal.
History
In 1995, during their first year of law school, Adam Ross and Dennis Donley founded TROLP as a counterbalance to the myriad liberal law journals. At its inception, Adam went to Professor Lino Graglia’s office to ask him to be TROLP’s faculty advisor. Graglia told Adam that starting TROLP was probably a waste of time and that he’d be better served to focus on his studies. Adam responded that he was going forward with the Review anyway, and he’d appreciate it if Graglia would at least be our faculty advisor. Graglia finally agreed, so long as he didn’t have to do any work.
Although the Review had no office and no money, we were in full supply of ideas and enthusiasm. We spent the first few years working out of Adam’s apartment, where we allocated most of our resources on pizzas from Papa Johns. (The red color of the Review is a direct knock-off of the red on the Papa Johns box; we mailed a piece of the cardboard box to Christensen Publishing.)
After a lot of hard work, we published our first issue in 1997, which was led by an article from former Attorney General Edwin Meese III. Over time, we grew our Advisory Board to include conservative luminaries such as Richard Epstein, Robert Bork, Edith Jones, and Phyllis Schlafly. Since its inception in the 1990s, TROLP has hosted 14 banquets to honor Jurists of the Year, including Gen. Meese, Ken Starr, Judge Jones, Sen. John Cornyn, and Justice Antonin Scalia, among others. The banquet is our annual spring celebration that has always been free of charge to students—and it always will be.
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