Chicana/o Latina/o Law Review

The Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review has developed a reputation for publishing strong scholarly work addressing issues unique to the Chicana/o-Latina/o experience. For almost four decades it has recognized how common law, statutes, legislative policy, and politically popular propositions impact the Latino community.

CLLR publishes articles, student-written comments, and speeches.

Why publish With the Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review?

• Our editorial process allows authors to publish high-quality pieces. All articles go through several rounds of substantive and formatting edits.
• Our diverse staff is made up of members who are dedicated to the advancement of Latino scholarly commentary, analysis, and legal work.
• CLLR offers a proper forum where innovative, timely, practical, and controversial viewpoints addressing law or policy issues relating specifically to Latinas/os and other people of color are expressed.
• CLLR is committed to not only acting as a medium for academic legal, judicial, and legislative analysis, but also as a blueprint for scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and advocates in establishing a progressive agenda for our community’s future.

The Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review will give preference to articles under 25,000 words in length--the equivalent of 50 law review pages--including text and footnotes. We will not publish articles exceeding 35,000 words--the equivalent of 70-75 law review pages--except in extraordinary circumstances.

We prefer submissions via ExpressO. Please note that if you are submitting via ExpressO, we do not send a separate acknowledgement of receipt; the only acknowledgement that your manuscript has been received will come from ExpressO. If you must submit a hard copy, please mail your submission to:

• Type-written;
• On 8 1/2" x 11" white paper; and
• In footnote format.

• A table of contents; and
• A cover letter with the author's name, address, telephone number, and email address.

The Articles Department makes every attempt to review an article within eight weeks of its receipt.

We generally require fourteen days to complete an expedited review. Please notify the Editors-in-Chief by phone at (310) 825-2894 or by email at cllr@lawnet.ucla.edu of your request for an expedited review as soon as possible. In your request, please include the following information:

• Author & co-author's first and last names
• Title of the Article
• Author's deadline
• Author's e-mail address and/or phone number

The author should expect to hear from the Editors-in-Chief no later than the day prior to the deadline for the expedited review. If the author has not heard from the Editors-in-Chief by the morning of the deadline date, please contact the Editors-in-Chief by phone at (310) 825-2894. If additional time is needed for the review, the Editors-in-Chief will notify the author in advance to make arrangements. If the deadline changes, please contact the Editors-in-Chief as soon as possible by phone or email.

The author should notify the Journal as soon as possible if he/she is withdrawing an article.

The Editors-in-Chief will contact you by phone and/or email with an offer of publication. Once you accept the Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review’s offer, we expect you to withdraw your article from all other law reviews.

Upon acceptance of our offer, an acceptance package including an instruction letter and two licensing agreements for your signature will be sent to you by our Editors-in-Chief.