Who We Are

California Law Review is the law journal of the University of California, Berkeley.

Founded in 1912, CLR was the first law review in the Western United States and the ninth legal publication in the country. Its creators saw the journal as a vehicle for reform. Today, as Berkeley Law’s primary publication, CLR is completely student-run and posts cutting-edge legal scholarship from a variety of topics and viewpoints. The journal’s print and web editions collectively publish over 100 pieces each year, including articles, essays, student notes, blogs, and podcast episodes. Our past work includes:

  • The Equal Protection of the Laws by Joseph Tussman and Jacobus tenBroek,

  • Privacy by William Prosser,

  • Legal Implications of Network Economic Effects by Mark A. Lemley and David McGowan,

  • Law and Behavioral Science: Removing the Rationality Assumption from Law and Economics by Russell B. Korobkin and Thomas S. Ulen,

  • Silence at the California Law Review by Amy DeVaudreuil, which exposed institutional racism within the journal,

  • The Dual Lives of Rights: The Rhetoric and Practice of Rights in America by Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, and

  • Masculinity as Prison: Sexual Identity, Race, and Incarceration by Russell K. Robinson.

Alumni include Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Marsha Berzon, California Supreme Court Justices Rose Bird, Roger J. Traynor, Allen Broussard, and Kathryn Werdegar, U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson, Professor Barbara Armstrong (the first woman law professor in the United States), and Professor Michael Tigar.

Volumes 111 and 112.

Group photo of Volumes 111 and 112, November 2022.

CLR editors CG Gupta ‘24 and Kendrick Peterson ‘24.

About the Website

Released in May 2023, this edition of the CLR website was designed by Hiep Nguyen ‘23 with assistance from Christopher Janssen (B.S. ‘17). Input and review were provided by CLR members (Fatima Ladha ‘23, Al Malecha ‘24, Edward Oh ‘23, Chloe Pan ‘24, and Angela Zhao ‘23) and the Berkeley Law Library team (Joseph Cera, Marci Hoffman, and Maro Vidal-Manou).

Previous snapshots of our website can be found on the open-source Wayback Machine.