[4] In 2018, the journal began publishing an annual "Visionary Article Series," which features the work of one prominent legal scholar per year.

[9] The journal has also published the scholarship of Dennis Archer, a former Michigan Supreme Court justice and an alumnus of the school.

[12] The Michigan State Law Review publishes five issues per year, one of which is a symposium that focuses on a particular legal topic.

[14] In recent years, the annual symposia topics have been as follows: In 2018, Michigan State Law Review began publishing a "Visionary Article Series" that aims to "honor a single legal scholar who has had a profound impact on a field of law by publishing a work of his or hers with a special designation.

In 2019, the series continued with an article by Yale Law School professor and former dean Robert Post that analyzed the chief justiceship of William Howard Taft.