Submissions

As one of the preeminent criminal law journals in the nation, recently ranked the #5 journal in the country for scholarship on criminal law and procedure, The Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law (“BJCL”) publishes work covering a broad range of topics in both substantive and procedural criminal law.

Please see below for our general submission requirements for articles.

Submission Requirements:

§ Submissions must be related to some aspect of criminal law.

§ Submissions must be novel and original work.

§ Articles must be submitted via Scholastica for consideration at https://scholasticahq.com.

§ Articles must comply with Bluebook citation format for law journal articles.

If you have any questions, please reach out to our submissions team at bjclsubmissions@berkeley.edu. We look forward to receiving and reading your scholarship.