Hello Class of 2021,
Welcome to the Peter A. Allard School of Law! We hope you all have an amazing first year at this vibrant institution. There are many opportunities to get involved in the close-knit community at Allard Law while exploring your interests. If you have an interest in Family Law and/or editing, we hope you’ll consider joining the Canadian Journal of Family Law (CJFL) team.
The CJFL is a biannual interdisciplinary journal that publishes English and French academic articles on a broad range of Family Law issues. It is a refereed publication, with articles reviewed by an Advisory Board of legal professionals and academics. Student staff members manage, edit, and publish the journal.
1L students can get involved by volunteering to edit submissions and check citations. You will work with us to ready articles for publication. This is a great way to develop your legal research and writing skills before you have to write your first legal research assignment! It’s also a great way to learn about the area of Family Law.
Feel free to email us at cdnjfl@interchange.ubc.ca to learn more or to discuss getting involved. Our website, http://faculty.allard.ubc.ca/cdnjfl/index.html, has further information as well as abstracts of every article the Journal has published.
We look forward to meeting everyone in September!
Alexander Bres – Senior Editor
Lauren Marshall – Associate Editor