The
California Law Review is the flagship
law journal of
UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). Founded in 1912, the Review was the first student law journal published west of Illinois.
The CLR application process consists of an anonymous write-on competition, with grades playing no role in the consideration of membership. A personal statement is also considered.
In independent surveys of attorneys, professors, and judges conducted in 1967, 1975, and 1986, the CLR ranked in the top ten journals in the nation in terms of value as a legal research tool. CLR was the sixth most frequently cited review in the country. In addition, several CLR articles were ranked among the fifty most cited legal articles in history. An exhaustive study conducted in 1986 found that CLR ranked third in state court citations and tenth among all courts in the nation, including the
United States Supreme Court.
Past editors of CLR have included justices
Roger J. Traynor (former Editor-in-Chief),
Kathryn Werdegar (former Editor-in-Chief),
Allen Broussard, Ninth Circuit Judge
Marsha Berzon, law professor
Barbara Armstrong, Ambassador
Jeff Bleich (former Editor-in-Chief), former Solicitor General
Theodore Olson, Professor
Christopher Schroeder (former Editor-in-Chief), and defense attorneys
Tony Serra and
Michael Tigar.
CLR maintains an active .
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