Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Press

The Northwestern University Press imprint first appeared in 1893 on the Northwestern University Record, a publication that served as the “official organ” of the university from 1893 to 1896. The imprint continued to be used sporadically by the faculties of the various schools of the university on monographs, journals, pamphlets, catalogs, and bulletins until 1922 when the Press was incorporated for the purpose of publishing The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology and the Illinois Law Review, under the auspices of the Illinois Law Publishing Company. Later The Journal of Air Law, The Journal of Radio Law, and The American Journal of Political Science, and several legal monographs were brought out under the Press imprint. Despite its incorporation, unauthorized use of the Press imprint continued in other areas of the University.

In 1935 the Graduate School undertook the editorship of a monographic series entitled Northwestern University Studies, in order to publish the original research of Northwestern faculty. Initially the Studies used a Northwestern University imprint. In 1945 the Press developed guidelines to eliminate the unauthorized use of its imprint and formalized its relationship with the Studies series. In 1949 the Studies adopted the Press imprint.

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