The Journal of Juvenile Law

Membership on the University of La Verne Law Review is the result of a selective process, based on both grades and successful completion of a write-on competition. Beginning with Volume 30 (2008-2009), the 2L staff will consist of 20 members. The write-on competition takes place over a one-week period in the summer and consists of two parts: a “closed universe” memo (5-7 pages) on a topic of current legal interest, and a cite-checking (“Bluebooking”) exercise. Any student ranked in the top 5, by cumulative G.P.A., among all students eligible to write on in a given year, who completes the write-on competition but is not among the top 20 by law review index score, is guaranteed a spot on the law review.

Membership on the University of La Verne Law Review is ordinarily a 2-year commitment. However, in the event that members of the 2L staff elect not to return in their third year, spaces on the staff will be made available to students ranked in the top 30 after their second year of law school. Selection will be by a write-on competition, combined with G.P.A., as described above.

The Editorial Board of the University of La Verne Law Review is selected in February. Only Members of the University of La Verne Law Review are eligible to serve as members of the Editorial Board. Members of the staff not selected for the Editorial Board serve as senior staff members in their 3L year.

History

The Journal of Juvenile Law has been, for the entirety of its existence, the sole law review of the University of La Verne College of Law, originally located in La Verne, California, and located since 2001 in Ontario, California.

As reported in Volume 1, published in 1977, the "Law Center" was established in 1970 as part of the La Verne College graduate program. During the 1974-75 academic year, the school was accredited by the California Committee of Bar Examiners. As reported in Volume 2, in 1978, La Verne College became the University of La Verne, and the law school was renamed the College of Law. In February, 2006, the University of La Verne College of Law was provisionally approved by the American Bar Association.

The Journal of Juvenile Law was first published in June, 1977, and was published once annually until 1983 (Volume 7). Volume 8 (1984) was published in two numbers. Volume 9 was a single number (1985). Volume 10 was published in two numbers: Number 1, published in 1986; and Number 2, published in 1989. Annual publication resumed with Volume 11 in 1990 (Volume 11).

Beginning with Volume 17 (1996), the Articles and Comments published in the Journal have appeared online on Westlaw. The most recent volume, Volume 28, was published in 2008.

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Announcements

Rosemary Spellman's Comment, "Strip Searches of Juveniles and the Fourth Amendment: A Delicate Balance of Protection and Privacy," 22 J. Juv. L. 159 (2002), will be excerpted in "Law and Public Education" casebook published by Matthew Bender (4th ed. 2008)
Charlotte A. Graham's Comment, "Pharmacists and the Morning-After Pill," 28 J. Juv. L. 100 (2007), is abstracted in Volume 23, Issues in Law and Medicine (2008)
Marisa L. Mortensen's Comment, "GPS Monitoring," 27 J. Juv. L. 17 (2006), is cited in Volume 43 of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (2008) and Volume 8 of the Nevada Law Journal (2008)
Stephen A. Campbell's Comment, "Alternative in the Treatment of Juvenile Offenders," 19 J. Juv. L. 318 (1998), is cited in Volume 12 of the U.C. Davis Journal of Juvenile Law and Policy (2008)
Steve Heise's Comment, "Mainstreaming of Handicapped Children in Education," 8 J. Juv. L. 105 (1984), is cited in the Valparaiso University Law Review
Tyler Talbot's Comment, "Reparative Therapy for Homosexual Teens," is included in Bibliography published in Volume 19 of the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism (2008)
Prof. Kathy Garcia's Comment, "Battered Women and Battered Children," 24 J. Juv. L. 101 (2003-2004), is cited by the Northern District of California federal district court in Daniels v. Henry, 2007 WL 424441 at *27 (N.D.Cal. 2007)
Steven Singley's Comment, "Failure to Report Suspected Child Abuse," 19 J. Juv. L. 236 (1998), is cited by Minnesota Supreme Court in Becker v. Mayo Foundation, 737 N.W.2d 200, 208 (Minn. 2007)