Abstract. We study quantum Schubert varieties from the point of view of regularity conditions. More precisely, we show that these rings are domains that are maximal orders and are AS-Cohen-Macaulay and we determine which of them are AS-Gorenstein. One key fact that enables us to prove these results is that quantum Schubert varieties are quantum graded algebras with a straightening law that have a unique minimal element in the defining poset. We prove a general result showing when such quantum graded algebras are maximal orders. Finally, we exploit these results to show that quantum determinantal rings are maximal orders.2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 16W35; 16P40; 16S38; 17B37; 20G42.Introduction. Since the appearance of quantum groups in the eighties, there have been several attempts to define quantum analogues of coordinate rings of grassmannian varieties and, more generally, of flag varieties. Here, we are interested in such deformations for grassmannian varieties and we follow the approach of Lakshmibai and Reshetikhin (see [8]). Hence, we start with the (usual) quantum deformation, denoted by O q (M m,n (k)), of the coordinate ring of m × n matrices. Then, denoting by G m,n (k) the grassmanian of m-dimensional subspaces in k n , the quantum deformation of the coordinate ring of G m,n (k) that we consider is the k-subalgebra of O q (M m,n (k)) generated by the maximal quantum minors. We denote this algebra by O q (G m,n (k)) and call it the quantum grassmannian for simplicity. Precise definitions are recalled in Section 1.Our main interest, in this paper, is the study of a family of quotients of O q (G m,n (k)) that appear in [8] and are natural quantum analogues of coordinate rings of Schubert varieties in G m,n (k). These quantum Schubert varieties have already been studied, to some extent, in [10]. There, they were used as a central tool to show that O q (G m,n (k)) is a quantum graded algebra with a straightening law. Details on the notion of quantum graded algebra with a straightening law (quantum graded A.S.L. for short) can be