The UCLA Undergraduate Law Journal
UCLA’S Flagship Undergraduate Legal Publication
Since its inception in 2002, the UCLA Undergraduate Law Journal has published 24 volumes of high-quality legal scholarship exclusively produced by undergraduate students from universities across the world. We are a generalist journal, publishing an annual volume of wholly student-produced scholarship pertaining to a wide variety of legal issues, including contemporary issues in U.S. domestic law and the international sphere, legal theory, and practical aspects of the law. Based at the #1 public university in the United States, the Journal has established itself as one of the pre-eminent publications for undergraduate students seeking to explore in-depth research on the most pressing contemporary issues of society, politics, and economics from a legal perspective. We are modeled on the country’s leading law reviews, which regularly publish cutting-edge research by the world’s top legal scholars. The Journal immerses contributors in an authentic experience that mirrors that of bona fide legal research that drives contemporary political thought and social discourse
Volume 24 is here.
Who We Are
The UCLA Undergraduate Law Journal is UCLA’s premier undergraduate law publication dedicated to providing a platform for students across the world to showcase high-quality legal research and develop as early career legal scholars. The Journal features scholarship concerning a diverse range of legal systems, including both state and federal law in the United States, international law in all its manifestations, the law of a foreign jurisdiction, and comparative law between jurisdictions.
Our Mission
The future of the U.S. legal system will be defined by the influx of a generation of passionate, energetic, and activism-forged individuals into the legal profession—this generation is the undergraduate student body of the present. Accordingly, it is vital that undergraduate students, the most politically and civically active cohort of American society, are offered opportunities to deepen their understanding of the legal system and engage in impactful scholarship early in their professional and academic careers. The Journal seeks, in particular, to showcase scholarship that highlights how the law interacts with marginalized and historically disadvantaged communities and peoples with the aim of highlighting overlooking and understudied aspects of law and contemporary society.