Welcome to the California Law Review

CLR is the oldest and most widely circulated student-edited legal periodical at Boalt and is one of the finest law journals in the country. Articles from CLR strive to add to the legal debate, expose and resolve ambiguities in legal doctrine, develop new approaches to the understanding the operations of our legal system and aid legal practitioners in performing their work for the benefit of society.

CLR is the flagship law journal at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. To this day, CLR remains a student-run law journal. With our founding dating back to 1912, we were the first such student law journal published west of Illinois.

Our student membership is selected from a merit-based Write On competition, as well as from anonymous manuscripts submitted from among Boalt Hall's finest students.

Announcements

Yoni Braude won the Thelen Marrin Prize for Academic Achievement, which is awarded to the third-year student with the highest overall GPA at graduation.

Hank Dempsey won the Thelen Marrin Prize for Law Journal Writing, which is awarded for the best student paper of the academic year. Hank’s article, The “Overlooked Hermaphrodite” of Campaign Finance: Candidate-Controlled Ballot Measure Committees in California Politics, was published in Volume 95 of the California Law Review.

Former Editor-in-Chief Robert Boone received the Student Service Award, which is awarded to a graduating student who has demonstrated outstanding service to the Boalt community.

Lisa Cisneros and Kailana Piimauna jointly received the Francine M. Diaz Memorial Award, which is awarded to the third-year women of color whose work at Boalt and career plans best memorialize Francine M. Diaz’s commitment to social justice. Francine Diaz was a student in the class of 1987; she was tragically killed in a car accident while working for the Boalt Hall Employment Discrimination Clinic.