The Thurgood Marshall Law Review is a legal publication run by law students at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law. This law review was established in 1970. It was originally called the Texas Southern Intramural Law Review. The very first article published in the law review concerned the shortage of African-American attorneys within the legal profession. Our home is The Thurgood Marshall School of Law who has helped to alter that landscape and now ranks in the top five for law schools graduating African-American attorneys, as well as in the top 25 for the number of Mexican-American graduates. The Thurgood Marshall School of Law has been recognized as the most diverse law school in the country by US News and World Report. From 1971-1981 this Law Review was called the Texas Southern University Law Review. After the law school formally changed its name to the Thurgood Marshall School of Law in 1976, the Law Review followed suit in 1981 by renaming the journal the Thurgood Marshall Law Review. The first issue under the new name was volume 7-1. Now, with over 40 years of publication, the law review is an intense legal research and writing forum for legal scholars and practitioners from around the world. The mission of the Thurgood Marshall Law Review today is to: • Be a principal medium through which new legal thought and opinions are presented to the legal profession; • Present quality professional work that is published through industrious solicitation of the profession, discriminating evaluation, and careful editing of the manuscripts submitted; • Publish student works of exceptional quality in order to ensure the reputable standing of the law review; • Foster and promote quality writing within the legal community; and • Do all that is necessary to accomplish these goals.