THE HISTORY OF THE LAW REVIEW IN A NUTSHELL
The Washington Law Review had two beginnings. The first issue of the Review was published in l919, tmder the editorship of former Dean John T. Condon. Financial difficulties forced the school to abandon the project after only one issue. In 1925, the Review was revived under the leadership of student Editor-in-Chief Paul Ashley, and a second Volume I, Number 1 was published. Dean Alfred J. Schweppe kept the dream alive as the book struggled through its first few years of financial difficulty and indifferent student leadership. In 1936, the Washington Law Review joined forces with the Washington State Bar Journal. This arrangement rescued the review from its precarious financial situation and boosted the Review's circulation to one of the highest in the country. The Review continued its association with the state baruntil1961, when the Review was able to provide its own financing and to escape the provincial designation inferred by the Review's title. The Review has been housed in many locations. Its first "office" was a table in the library on the top floor of the building which is now Savery Hall. When the original Condon Hall was built on the main campus, the Review's offices shifted to a group of rooms in the basement. Today, the Review occupies the "penthouse suite" on the eighth floor of the new Condon Hall. The management structure of the Review has also gone through a number of changes over the years. Although the Review began in 1925 as a student publication, a faculty editorial board was introduced in 1929 to provide continuity. The