About the Journal
The University of Massachusetts Law Review is a student-run co-curricular organization that publishes an academic law journal. The organization’s purpose is to contribute legal periodicals for practicing lawyers and students by providing a forum for legal scholarship and debate, while also being able to provide various opportunities for its student members to develop their own writing and editing skills. The law review is run by an Editorial Board of students who are responsible for publication, timely organization decisions, and selection of content. UMass Law Review aims provide meaningful engagement with legal scholarship through service and empower our member to advance the study and development of law within the Commonwealth and beyond.
Founded in 2005, the first issue was published in 2006 as the Southern New England Roundtable Symposium Law Journal. The publication’s name was changed to the University of Massachusetts Roundtable Symposium Law Journal to coincide with the donation of Southern New England School of Law to the Commonwealth and the renaming of the law school to the University of Massachusetts Law School. In 2012, the publication name was changed to the University of Massachusetts Law Review, and a general issue was added to the publication schedule. Today, the UMass Law Review is published twice per year, with a winter and spring edition.
Every academic year, the law review publishes two print issues per annual volume. Both the January and May issues are general-interest publications open to works on any legal topic. Manuscripts selected for inclusion are chosen for their authorship as well as their contribution to legal scholarship and the bar.
ISSN 2167-8294 (online) 2167-8286 (print)