California Law Review

California Law Review

Discipline	Law review
Language	English
Publication details
History	1912-present
Publisher	University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (United States)
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	2.155 (2014)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
Bluebook	Calif. L. Rev.
ISO 4	Calif. Law Rev.
Indexing CODEN · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0008-1221
JSTOR	00081221
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The California Law Review is a law journal published by the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. It was established in 1912. The application process consists of an anonymous write-on competition, with grades playing no role in the consideration of membership. A personal statement is also considered.

History[]

The California Law Review was the first student-run law review founded west of the Mississippi. It is the ninth oldest surviving law review published in the United States.

A companion volume, identified as California Law Review Online was launched in 2014. The Online volume publishes shorter articles, essays, and blog postings.^[1]

Notable alumni[]

Past editors and contributors have included

• Chief Justice Roger J. Traynor (former editor-in-chief),
• Justice Kathryn Werdegar (former editor-in-chief)
• Justice Allen Broussard
• Chief Justice Rose Bird
• Ninth Circuit Judge Marsha Berzon
• Ambassador Jeff Bleich (former editor-in-chief)
• Former United States Solicitor General Theodore Olson
• Professor Christopher Schroeder (former editor-in-chief)
• Professor Barbara Armstrong, the first female law professor in the United States
• defense attorneys Tony Serra and Michael Tigar
• Los Angeles trial lawyer and author Merrill K. Albert (revising editor, 1955)
• Law librarian Rosamond Parma (manager, 1928-1935)

References[]

External links[]

• Official website