The Journal of Law and Social Change

The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Social Change (JLASC) is proud to begin our fourth year as an official journal of Penn Law after 14 years of independent scholarship. We are a progressive, student-run journal and seminar that espouses an interdisciplinary scholarly approach to challenge social injustice. JLASC is unique among Penn Law Journals both in our mission and process. All journal members participate in journal decision-making by collectively reviewing, selecting and editing each piece of scholarship.

This coming year, JLASC will publish two regular issues of the journal. Our broad mission attracts articles from a diverse range of legal scholars, practitioners and activists around the country. We embrace theory and practice, featuring interdisciplinary scholarship that has practical implications beyond the legal community.

In addition to our fall and spring issue, JLASC will once again partner with the Toll Public Interest Office to publish the second annual Edward V. Sparer Symposium Issue. The journal has also seized upon the singular opportunity to co-publish a special post-conference issue with the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law. This unique collaboration will preserve the scholarly contributions of presenters at this year’s Rule of Law Reform in Iraq and Afghanistan: Challenges for the Coming Decade Conference, hosted by Penn Law. In addition, JLASC conducts a seminar over the course of the year, fueled by the individual interests of each journal member.

Each 3L member is responsible for leading one ten to fifteen-minute seminar session during the year, on a topic of his or her choosing, and all members are expected to actively participate in discussion of course materials.

Kate Unger Davis
Nate Vogel
Editors-in-Chief Vol. 14
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Social Change

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

JLASC is soliciting quality articles, essays, reviews, and comments related to the intersection of law and social change for its Fall 2010 issue. Submissions can range from twenty to eighty pages. JLASC also accepts submission of three to five page abstracts, upon which the Journal will make its initial decision about whether it will publish the piece.

To submit an article or for more information, please email: jlasc@law.upenn.edu