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The Oxford Undergraduate Law & Policy Review is a student-run journal of law and public policy, founded in 2025 and published by the Oxford Law Society.
Enquiries reach the editors through the Society. Use this address for submissions and for any other questions about the Review. If you are sending work, please read how to submit first.
Editorial team
Editors-in-Chief
Usho Watanabe
Law, Second Year
Lady Margaret Hall
Jessica Lee
Law, Second Year
Exeter College
Vice Editors
Niyanthri Arun
Law, Second Year
Merton College
Vanya Doval
Law, Second Year
St Hugh’s College
Jay Liu
Law, Second Year
Oriel College
Poppy Elliot
Law, Second Year
University College
Advisory Board
Navin Sivakumar
Editor Emeritus; Law, Third Year
Hertford College
Bonnie Yeo
Editor Emerita; Law, Third Year
Merton College
Purpose
The Review was founded in Trinity Term 2025 by students who had just finished Law Moderations and wanted somewhere to develop ideas from their tutorials that the syllabus left no room for.
They found that undergraduate legal writing tended to end up in one of two places: informal blogs offering short commentary, or highly selective journals whose standards can put off first-time authors. The Review was set up to bridge that gap, and to publish work that is “rigorous and intellectually ambitious, while remaining open and accessible” to students writing for publication for the first time.
History
The Review succeeds Verdict, the Oxford Law Society’s magazine of student writing, whose issues from 2016 to 2019 are preserved in our archive. Our first issue, covering Michaelmas 2025 and Hilary 2026, opened with a foreword by the Rt Hon Lord Justice Dingemans, Senior President of Tribunals.
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to 3 Hare Court for sponsoring the 3 Hare Court Oxford Undergraduate Law & Policy Review Prize, awarded for the best submission to our first issue.