Gender and the Law

The Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law publishes papers addressing social and political equality under the law. Gender plays a unique role in the formation of social policy, as well as the administration and development of the law. We hope that our holistic approach to legal analysis will promote the empowerment all individuals in our society and strengthen the role of progressive perspectives in mainstream legal scholarship.

By focusing on gender and social policy issues, we are committed to creating a dialogue among disparate social, economic, and gender groups in order to find our common humanity under the law.

Source: www.wcl.american.edu/journal/genderlaw

The Australian Feminist Law Journal publishes critical, postmodern and feminist writing on practices of legality and justice, broadly conceived.

Source: http://www.griffith.edu.au/law/australian-feminist-law-journal

The Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, a continuation of Berkeley Women's Law Journal, was founded in 1984 by a group of students at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law who came together with a vision of "preserving our voices of diversity and maintaining our commitment to social change within the often-stifling confines of a law school environment."

Now in its twenty-sixth year of publication, BGLJ is guided by an editorial policy that distinguishes us from other law reviews and feminist journals. Our mandate is to publish feminist legal scholarship that critically examines the intersection of gender with one or more axis of subordination, including, but not limited to, race, class, sexual orientation, and disability.

Because conditions of inequality are continually changing, our mandate is also continually evolving. Pieces may come within the mandate because of their subject matter or because of their analytical attention to differences in social location among women.

BGLJ currently publishes two issues annually, one in the winter and one in the summer.

Source: http://genderlawjustice.berkeley.edu/about/

The Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender began as the Cardozo Women's Law Journal, from 1993-2005 and was published under the name Cardozo Women's Law Journal from 2005-2017.

Recognizing the expansion of legal and social developments on topics such as gender, sexuality, and family law, the 2005-2006 Board sought to create a niche for these growing fields at Cardozo.

Since its inception as the Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender in 2005, our Journal has stood out among related publications.

The Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender is home to groundbreaking legal research, the only annotated legal bibliography of its kind and an annual Symposium covering themes such as the Innocence Project, education, religion, sexuality, marriage and the law, reproductive justice, environmental considerations for women and families in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, human trafficking, and intersex issues.

Source: http://www.cardozolawandgender.com/

The Columbia Journal of Gender and Law publishes interdisciplinary works related to feminism and gender issues.

The journal aims to promote an expansive view of feminism, embracing women and men of different colors, classes, sexual orientations, and cultures. The staff is selected from applications received at the end of each semester. Selections for the editorial board are made from the staff at the end of each year. http://cjgl.cdrs.columbia.edu/

The DePaul Journal of Women, Gender, and the Law is a student-run publication committed to advancing legal rights concerning women and gender domestically and internationally. The Journal publishes at least two issues per academic year, which may include original articles and commentaries written by students, legal scholars, practitioners, non-lawyer advocates and professionals in related and/or interdisciplinary fields who propose solutions to problems implicating women's and gender rights; selected winning articles authored by selected recipients of the Helen F. McGillicuddy Scholarship Endowment Fund; notes written and submitted for publication by Journal members, nonmember College of Law students, and students enrolled at other law schools; or book reviews as the Journal Editorial Board shall deem worthy of publication.

Source: http://via.library.depaul.edu/jwgl/

an open access journal of feminist legal scholarship

Founded in 1977 and currently working on its thirty-third volume, the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender (originally the Harvard Women's Law Journal) is the nation's oldest continuously publishing feminist law journal. The JLG is devoted to the advancement of feminist jurisprudence and the study of law and gender. By combining political, economic, historical, sociological, and legal perspectives, we seek to clarify legal issues that have gendered aspects and implications, and to confront new challenges to full social equality. Our journal also explores the interconnections between race, class, sexuality, and gender in the law.

Source: http://harvardjlg.com/about/

Since 1989, the Hastings Women's Law Journal has provided a forum for voices outside the traditional scope of legal academic scholarship. We offer and maintain an inclusive space for feminism, race theory, multiculturalism, animal rights, disability rights, language rights, international human rights, criminal defendants' rights and prisoners' rights, among others. HWLJ takes the road less traveled in regard to the law. This perspective embraces difference and celebrates diversity.

Staffed entirely by students and volunteers, HWLJ publishes twice a year - giving its subscribers access to discussions on cutting edge issues which many law journals either avoid or ignore. We are a progressive, diverse, open, and forward-looking collective of individuals working together to widen the scope of legal scholarship. To this end, HWLJ publishes works of literature, poems, book reviews, personal pieces, and, of course, legal analysis. We strongly believe that the law is a solution for the ills of the human condition, not merely a means of gaining and preserving privilege and position.

Source: http://www.hastingswomenslj.org/about/

The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, the oldest interdisciplinary, inter-religious feminist academic journal in religious studies, is a channel for the publication of feminist scholarship in religion and a forum for discussion and dialogue among women and men of differing feminist perspectives. Its editors are committed to rigorous thinking and analysis in the service of the transformation of religious studies as a discipline and the feminist transformation of religious and cultural institutions.

The central mission of the Michigan Journal of Gender & Law is to create a feminist legal publication that will help expand and develop legal discourse beyond traditional boundaries. The Journal is dedicated to providing a forum for exploring how gender issues and related issues of race, class, sexual orientation, and culture impact the lives of women and men. The Journal seeks to compare, contrast, and combine theoretical and practical perspectives on gender issues in order to provide a bridge between theory and practice. To achieve these purposes, the Journal will publish the views of legal scholars, social scientists, practitioners, students, and others. It is our hope that different views, however passionately held, will all receive discussion within the Journal. We welcome the submissions and responses of our readers.

Source: http://repository.law.umich.edu/mjgl/

Perspectives provides a unique slant on the topics covered that women lawyers will not find in other publications. It provides the latest news in the field and gives women lawyers the insight to get ahead, including advice and career-building tips, political and legal developments that affect women in the profession, profiles of women lawyers, activities of the Commission on Women and Partners of the Commission, and other resources and ideas women lawyers cannot afford to miss.

Source: http://www.abanet.org/abastore/index.cfm?section=magazines&fm=Product.AddToCart&pid=4920100

We celebrate the legal, social, and political advances made by women's advocates and enhance the relationship between theoretical and practical perspectives by promoting discourse on gender and the law issues. We seek to enrich the dialogue between the sexes by cultivating interdisciplinary discussions and encouraging the affirmation of differences. Finally, we are committed to the challenge of presenting an integrated perspective: one that will empower all women.

TJWL is staffed entirely by law students and publishes twice a year. Readers enjoy a critical look at cutting-edge legal issues through a feminist lens. Publications may include not only articles, but also student-written notes, book reviews, essays, and symposium pieces. Publications include a mix of practical and theoretical works.

Source: www.utexas.edu/law/journals/tjwl/

First published in 1991, Law & Sexuality is the first and only student-edited law review in the country devoted solely to covering legal issues of interest to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community on a wide variety of subjects, including constitutional, employment, family, health, insurance, and military law. The Journal addresses all of these issues and more with theoretical and practical articles by academicians, practitioners, and students. This journal is published annually and has broad national and international circulation. Law & Sexuality is the official legal publication of the National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT) Bar Association. The Journal publishes the winning article of the annual National LGBT Bar Association Michael Greenberg Student Writing Competition. This exciting competition is dedicated to encouraging and recognizing outstanding law student scholarship on the legal issues affecting LGBT persons.

Source: http://www.law.tulane.edu/tlsjournals/tlas/index.aspx

The UCLA Women's Law Journal is an academic legal journal that uses the power of language to educate people and make women's voices heard. We seek to do so by focusing not only on the common struggles of women, but also on diversity as a strength in feminist legal scholarship. Through diversity, we seek to represent the reality of all women's lives and experiences, without separating voices into exclusionary categories.

The WLJ was one of the first journals in the country to address issues of gender, race, and sexual orientation. The Journal remains one of the top journals in the field, with hundreds of subscribers around the world.

The WLJ is an entirely student-run law journal. We publish works by professors, practitioners, and students from around the world, who represent all sides of the legal, political, religious, and cultural spectrum.

Source: http://journals.law.ucla.edu/wlj/Pages/default.aspx

Originally known as William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law (1994-2018). The focus of the Journal is to present wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary perspectives on the gender issues of our time. The gender issues that the Journal addresses are not issues that face only women. Rather these issues reflect a more modern conception of gender dialog, addressing the way in which individuals and groups of different genders interact.

The Journal of Women and the Law is a student-edited journal founded to focus scholarly debate on gender-related issues and to encourage discussion about the impact gender bias in the law has on society and women's lives. The Journal is committed to stimulating an open discussion encompassing a variety of viewpoints regarding these legal issues. Through such dialogue, we hope to advance the development of the law in an area critical to social justice and equality.

In addition to advancing legal development, the Journal provides students, professors and practitioners interested in gender-related issues and feminist legal studies the opportunity to develop these interests further through a serious academic review that crosses the boundaries traditionally separating legal disciplines. The Journal's scope includes labor law, international law, administrative law, wills and estates, contracts, torts, the criminal and civil justice systems, and many other areas of law. It addresses the inherent interdependence between public policy and social issues. This broad academic approach promotes thoughtful and creative commentary on issues concerning gender and the law.

Source: http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/wmjowl/missionstatement

The Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society, originally the Wisconsin Women's Law Journal, grew out of two traditions: the University of Wisconsin Law School's "law in action" approach and the interdisciplinary design of gender studies. Through "law in action" we look beyond the statutes and cases to study the practical effects of the law on both individuals and communities. The interdisciplinary approach offers different perspectives through which to expand and challenge our understanding of the law.

The Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society, originally the Wisconsin Women's Law Journal, grew out of two traditions: the University of Wisconsin Law School's "law in action" approach and the interdisciplinary design of gender studies. Through "law in action" we look beyond the statutes and cases to study the practical effects of the law on both individuals and communities. The interdisciplinary approach offers different perspectives through which to expand and challenge our understanding of the law.

The Journal, one of the earliest in the nation devoted to the study of women and the law, has strived to contribute insightful scholarship to this evolving field of study. Recognizing that women are a diverse group with differing beliefs and interests, and moreover that gender stereotyping of any kind inhibits each individual's full equality under the law, we encourage articles that examine the intersection of law and gender with issues of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sexual orientation.

Source: http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/wordpress/wjlgs/about-us/

Founded in 1970 by feminist activists, legal workers, and law students, the Women's Rights Law Reporter is the oldest legal periodical in the United States focusing exclusively on the field of women's rights law. With over thirty years of publication, the Reporter has continued to cultivate this important legal dialogue.

The Reporter was first published independently in New York City. Due to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg's fierce dedication, the Reporter moved to Rutgers School of Law-Newark in the early 1970's. The Reporter examines legislative developments, significant federal and state court cases, judicial doctrines, litigation strategies, the lives and careers of prominent women jurists, the legal profession, and other areas of law or public policy relating to women's rights. The Reporter finds the intersections between race, class, gender, and sexuality to be vital to the examination of new legal developments affecting the lives of women.

Source: https://womensrightslawreporter.com/

The Women Lawyers Journal (WLJ), a quarterly NAWL publication dating back to 1911, provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and information for NAWL members. The WLJ prints the news and views of the membership, promotes association programs, discusses substantive issues affecting women in the law and women in society, and promotes the agenda and objectives of NAWL.

Source: http://www.nawl.org/p/cm/ld/fid=82#WLJ

The Yale Journal of Law and Feminism is committed to publishing pieces about women's experiences, especially as they have been structured, affected, controlled, discussed, or ignored by the law. These experiences include the particular experiences of women of color and of lesbians. We encourage submissions of articles, essays, and reviews on any subject bearing upon the intersection of law and feminism. We have organized the Journal to reflect our feminist values: we make major decisions collectively, by modified consensus.

Source: http://www.yale.edu/lawnfem/feminists.html