Journals

The Journals at UC Law SF publish scholarly articles, essays, and student Notes on a broad range of legal topics. UC Law SF journals publish primarily open access online. The files are downloadable, and searchable, and can be shared between readers. First-year students who wish to participate on a journal during their second year are required to enter the Inter-Journal Writing Competition, which occurs in the Spring of the 1L year. Current students can learn more about participating in a journal on Sharknet.

Current Roster

Since 1976, Hastings Communications and Entertainment Journal (COMM/ENT) is one of the nation’s first law journals dedicated to the field of Entertainment and Media law. Now, nearly forty years later, COMM/ENT has expanded its scope to other areas, such as communications and entertainment in the midst of technology and disruptive innovation, including, but not limited to, Intellectual Property, Data Privacy, Licensing, Employment and Labor Law, Constitutional Rights, and International and Comparative Law. The Washington and Lee University School of Law Library, which publishes the most widely-followed law review rankings, lists COMM/ENT as the nation’s fifth best law journal in Communications Law, Media, and Journalism; and seventh best in Arts, Entertainment, and Sports law.

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The goal of Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly (CLQ) is to be a nationwide leader in the publication of legal scholarship on contemporary constitutional issues. Publishing for four issues annually and hosting several events and symposia, CLQ endeavors to engage a variety of thought leaders and a wide audience in the exploration of some of today’s most pressing legal debates.

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Founded in 1976, the Hastings International and Comparative Law Review (“HICLR”) was one of the first law journals in the country dedicated exclusively to legal discourse on the most pressing international and comparative legal issues. As a resource for both academics and practitioners, HICLR provides a forum for exchanging ideas on public and private international law. The journal is published two times a year and welcomes submissions from around the world. Recent topics of discussion in the journal include Religious Rights and Women’s Rights in Africa, the burden of proof in International commercial arbitration, international trade, and refugee rights.

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The Hastings Journal of Crime & Punishment is a forum in which meaningful debate can occur on issues of criminal law, incarceration and the legal system. Our intention is to establish a cross-disciplinary and critical platform in which scholars and practitioners analyze criminal law and the carceral state. In order to ensure a thorough interrogation of these issues, a diversity of viewpoints is necessary. Therefore, we prioritize the written analysis of those who have traditionally been excluded from legal scholarship, including incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. Ultimately, we believe that through the critical study of criminal law, HJCP can contribute to a broad discourse about American society, justice, and the status quo.

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Since 1989, the Hastings Journal on Gender and the Law (formerly Hastings Women’s Law Journal) has provided a forum for voices outside the traditional scope of legal academic scholarship. We offer and maintain an inclusive space for feminism, race theory, queer theory, multiculturalism, animal rights, disability rights, language rights, international human rights, criminal defendants’ rights, and human rights of people in prison, among others. HJGL takes the road less traveled in regard to the law. This perspective embraces difference and celebrates diversity.

Staffed entirely by students and volunteers, HJGL publishes twice a year — giving its subscribers access to discussions on cutting-edge issues which many law journals either avoid or ignore. We are a progressive, diverse, open, and forward-looking collective of individuals working together to widen the scope of legal scholarship. To this end, HJGL publishes works of literature, poems, book reviews, personal pieces, and, of course, legal analysis. We strongly believe that the law is a solution for the ills of the human condition, not merely a means of gaining and preserving privilege and position.

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The Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal (HRPLJ) is committed to promoting and inspiring discourse in the legal community regarding issues of race, poverty, social justice and the law. This Journal is committed to addressing disparities in the legal system. We will create an avenue for compelling dialogue on the subject of the growing marginalization of racial minorities and the economically disadvantaged. It is our hope that the legal theories address in this Journal will prove useful in remedying the structural inequalities facing our communities.

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The Hastings Science & Technology Law Journal (“STLJ”) is a multidisciplinary journal created to enrich the discourse at the nexus of science, technology, and the law. Specifically, STLJ focuses on the exciting legal issues surrounding startups, intellectual property, data privacy, biotechnology, clean technology, and health policy, while exploring the implications of technological advances on traditional legal fields, such as contracts, antitrust, and tax. STLJ is dedicated to publishing a bi-annual volume of legal scholarship of the highest quality and of the greatest use of scholars, judges, policy-makers, scientists, practitioners, and law students.

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