The faculty resolution creating the Michigan Law Review required every faculty member to submit two articles per year to the new journal.

During the years that followed, student editors were given increasing responsibility and autonomy; today, the Michigan Law Review is run with no faculty supervision.

[2] Seven of each volume's eight issues ordinarily are composed of two major parts: "Articles" by legal scholars and practitioners and "Notes" written by the student editors.

Occasionally special issues are devoted to symposia or colloquia.

The Raw Review used the same cover, layout, and typeface, but contained content totally dissimilar, leaning to the "insulting and semi-pornographic".