La Raza Law Journal

Our purpose is to provide an open forum for the analysis of legal issues affecting the Latinx community; to publish articles written by Latinx students, scholars, practitioners; and to serve as a legal research resource. The Berkeley Latine Journal of Law and Policy (“Journal") produces knowledge designed to capture the imagination of legislators, stir the consciences of judges, and provide a dynamic tool for practitioners concerned with the impact of their work on behalf of the Latine community. The Journal was imagined in 1980 and established in 1981 by Latine students and our allies at Berkeley Law at the University of California, Berkeley. The Journal is one of the few law reviews in the United States that center Latine conditions, communities, and identities. The Journal was established to provide a forum, which previously did not exist, to analyze legal issues affecting the Latine community. Previous issues have addressed bilingual education, affirmative action, immigration law, labor law and policy, voting rights, community empowerment, new models of organizing labor, rural communities, and Latine Critical Legal Theory. Each spring, we traditionally host a symposium to bring together law and other students, with professors, lawyers, activists and other community members to learn about and discuss current issues affecting the Latine community. Additionally, we irregularly hold colloquia and installments of our speaker series. These events and others are part of our evolving project to transform conventional legal education at Berkeley Law in order to help Latine law students and our allies become better advocates for social justice, self-determination, and liberation in the United States and abroad.