Since 1931, the Michigan State Law Review has been dedicated to the advancement of scholarship throughout the legal community. The Law Review is the flagship journal of the Michigan State University College of Law. It is a student-run journal that publishes five print issues per year with a commitment to delivering innovative legal analysis on intriguing and timely issues. Moreover, the Michigan State Law Review also publishes The MSLR Forum, a monthly online publication with essays on current legal issues.

By counting “student-edited print flagship” journals, in English, not separately ranked by Washington & Lee School of Law (W&L Law) in its Law Journal Rankings, Michigan State Law Review was the 56th highest-ranked “flagship” print journal in 2023 with a score of 18.11 out of 100 and, per W&L Law, the 68th overall journal, a dramatic increase from its ranking of 332nd in 2003.