The University of Nebraska College of Law has launched a new peer-reviewed law journal. The first volume of the Nebraska Journal on Advancing Justice will be published in spring 2025.
The Nebraska Journal on Advancing Justice aims to provide a forum for robust, disruptive, and creative scholarly engagement from academics, researchers, judges, lawyers, people who are justice-impacted, and community members on issues of advancing justice for all in American society. The Journal is committed to promoting intellectual discourse and critical analysis of legal and policy issues that may disproportionately impact people and groups in Nebraska, nationally, and globally.
The Journal was created because students, faculty, and staff recognized a need for a platform to showcase innovative and rigorous research and analysis from diverse voices and stakeholders on cutting-edge legal and policy issues.
Professor Danielle Jefferis will serve as the Journal’s faculty editor-in-chief. Brooklyn Terrill, ’25, is the inaugural student editor-in-chief. The Journal’s editorial board is comprised of faculty and students, who will work closely with external peer reviewers to select pieces for publication.
“The core of Nebraska Law’s mission is to develop inclusive leaders who advance justice,” said Professor Jefferis. “By introducing this peer-reviewed journal, our hope is that we can bring together scholars, policy makers, practitioners, impacted communities, and students to discuss important issues of justice, not just in Nebraska, but around the world. In turn, we hope to inspire students to think creatively and advance work on those issues about which they care deeply.”
The Journal’s slate of peer reviewers include academics from Nebraska, as well as law school faculty and others from related disciplines around the country.
“We are excited to assemble a board of nationally-recognized experts in a wide range of areas to participate in the selection and editorial process. This will be one of the few peer-reviewed law school publications nationally, and we’re thrilled to join the work of our experts with the vision and commitment of our students serving on the Journal’s board,” said Jefferis.
“I am so proud to be a part of the Journal’s founding board,” said Brooklyn Terrill. “It is important to promote scholarly work from a variety of perspectives, and I know that I and the rest of the Journal’s editorial team are thrilled to have created a platform to feature such meaningful work.”
The Nebraska Journal on Advancing Justice is an online, open-access journal. The submissions window will be open from October 1. The editorial board encourages traditional scholarly articles as well as essays, book reviews, creative works, and other non-traditional scholarship. Learn more at njaj.unl.edu.
