ABOUT THE LAW REVIEW

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The Cambridge Law Review (CLR) is an independent journal run by students at the University of Cambridge which aims to provide a forum for the discussion of contemporary legal issues. We welcome the following submissions: submissions on English law, EU law, and international law; comparative pieces involving English law; and submissions that are non-jurisdiction specific (e.g., technology regulation). We will also consider outstanding submissions that deal solely with the law of other common law jurisdictions on an exceptional basis. Our most important criterion for publication is that your submission relates to a contemporary legal issue, though we will also consider outstanding historical or jurisprudential pieces. Your submission should provide critical insight into the area of law you have chosen.

The Managing Board takes great pride in ensuring that the best submissions are published. To that end, a team of editors comprising undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students at the University of Cambridge will blindly review each article at least three times before any decision is made.

For Volumes 1 through 3, the CLR published one issue per year. From Volume 4 onwards, the CLR has published two issues per year; one in March and one in September. Each issue will feature articles written by legal scholars, practitioners or students from various countries. The topics of the articles span a wide range of contemporary legal issues, with exceptions made for outstanding historical and jurisprudential pieces. By combining contributions of the highest quality with a rigorous editing process, the CLR strives to be among the leading voices in debating the most significant legal issues of today's world.

The CLR's volumes can be accessed here or on HeinOnline. Its ISSN is 2753-5746.

OUR HISTORY

The CLR in its current incarnation began in 2015 with its first volume, but the long history and tradition of student-run law reviews in Cambridge started almost a century earlier. In 1921, the Cambridge Law Journal (CLJ) was founded as a student publication. Within a number of years, due to the remarkable quality of submissions and editing, and the reputation it quickly built for itself, the Law Faculty of Cambridge saw fit to take the journal into its purview. Since then, the CLJ has been directed entirely by faculty members. This entailed that, for a period of time thereafter, a student-run academic law journal was missing from the University of Cambridge.

The Cambridge Student Law Review (CSLR) was then founded in 2003 and was quickly recognised as a high-calibre publication run independently by students. In 2011, it narrowed its focus, and the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law was established as a continuation of the CSLR. It was subsequently renamed the Cambridge International Law Journal (CILJ). The CILJ, like the CLJ before it, has been taken under the wing of the Law Faculty and is currently jointly managed by postgraduate students in Cambridge.

Now, the CLR takes the place of its predecessors, and as before, it seeks to provide a platform for legal scholarship amongst fresh law students and senior academics alike.