Mandate

Our mandate is to publish feminist legal scholarship that critically examines the intersection of gender with one or more axes of subordination, including, but not limited to, race, class, sexual orientation, disability, and colonialism.

The Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice (a continuation of the 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 40th year of publication, our journal has an editorial policy that distinguishes us from other law reviews and feminist journals. 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 societal differences.