Submission Policies

The editors reserve the right to determine the suitability of submissions. For additional information, please contact the editors.

Peer Review

Peer review: One peer editor reviews the article and provides feedback for the author to ensure the quality, accuracy, and validity of scholarly research, and to identify and correct errors or weaknesses in an article before it is published. Peer reviewers are UC San Diego undergraduate students and members of ULR.

Expert review: Expert reviewers are those in the legal writing field such as professors in legal studies, political science, and history, as well as practicing attorneys. Each author in ULR is paired with an expert reviewer who provides substantive edits.

Editorial review: Based on the peer reviews and their own evaluation, the editors decide whether to accept, reject, or request revisions to the article. If revisions are required, the author is asked to make changes and resubmit the article. Once an article is accepted for publication, it undergoes copyediting and proofreading to ensure that it meets the journal’s formatting, style, and language requirements.

Plagiarism

We will scan for plagiarism by checking the provided citations used to ensure that sources are cited properly.

Removal                    

Once published, a journal article cannot generally be revised or removed. We feel it is important to provide perpetual access to materials published whenever possible and appropriate. However, we will remove publications under special circumstances, including in the case of submission errors, rights violations, or inappropriate content. Please be aware, however, that even after the removal of a work, a citation to the work will remain in our system, along with a URL.

If you would like your work removed from eScholarship, please contact the editors.

Revising Work

Once manuscripts are published, we are generally unable to revise them. If a significant error or omission is discovered, contact the editors.

Rights and Permissions

The Undergraduate Law Review at UC San Diego does not require copyright transfer, only permission to publish and archive the article. Copyright holders retain copyright ownership, granting a nonexclusive license to the journal and eScholarship to publish the article, meaning that the author may also publish it elsewhere. Before submitting an article to the journal, please be sure that all necessary permissions have been cleared in any third party material. All articles published in the journal are subject to the journal’s author agreement, which is available in the first step of the submission process or by contacting us to request a copy.

Open Access statement (CC-BY)

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

Long-term preservation policy

All materials submitted to eScholarship are automatically deposited in CDL's Merritt Preservation Repository for long-term preservation.