About the Philippine Law Journal
The Philippine Law Journal is an independent and student-edited law review of the University of the Philippines (U.P.) College of Law. It is devoted to the promotion of legal scholarship through research and writing. For more than a century, it has forwarded that goal by contributing to law and jurisprudence and providing a platform for solutions to pressing Philippine legal problems.
The Journal is published in print four times a year. The academic articles, essays, and student notes and comments published in the Journal regularly cover a wide expanse of legal fields, and are contributed by local and foreign scholars, professors, magistrates and public officials, legal practitioners, and researchers from various academic institutions, as well as students of the U.P. College of Law. These works have been cited in decisions of the Supreme Court, the deliberations of the 1986 Constitutional Commission, law books, and law reviews, among others. Mindful of structural barriers, the Journal has a policy of identity-blind deliberations to provide lesser-known authors a greater opportunity to be published in an academic platform.
The Journal is edited and managed by the Editorial Board, composed of ten select students of the U.P. College of Law. Annually, a Faculty Examination Committee selects members of the Board on the basis of competitive writing and editing examinations, as well as academic qualifications. A pool of students assist the editors of the Journal in their various editorial and administrative responsibilities.