About the Journal

The Philippine Law Journal is an independent and student-edited law review of the University of the Philippines 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. These works have been cited in decisions of the Supreme Court, the deliberations of the Constitutional Commission, law books, and law reviews, among others. Contributors to the Journal include local and foreign scholars who are concurrently magistrates and public officials, legal practitioners, jurists, professors, researchers, and students from various academic institutions. Further, the Journal has a policy of identity-blind deliberations to provide lesser-known authors of promising papers a greater opportunity to be published in an academic platform.

The Journal is edited and managed by the Student Editorial Board, currently composed of ten students at the University of the Philippines College of Law. Annually, a Faculty Committee selects Members of the Board based on competitive writing and editing examinations, as well as academic qualifications. In turn, a pool of student interns assists the Journal’s editors in their various editorial and administrative responsibilities.