Úlfljótur, Law Review, is a law student run publication. The law review is the most senior of all academic publications still in print at the University of Iceland, with a continuous publication since 1947, except for the year of 1951. It is also the most senior law review in publication in Iceland and the most senior academic law student review within the Nordic countries.

The founder and first Editor-in-Chief of Úlfljótur, Law Review, was Þorvaldur Garðar Kristjánsson, the then chairman of the law student association Orator.

Based at Lögberg (The Faculty of Law Building) the law student run enterprise is widely considered amongst the leading legal scholarly publications in the country. As such it has a very good distribution within the Icelandic legal profession and is one of the most cited and academically referenced law publications. The law review has worldwide subscribers, mainly in Europe and in the USA.

With four volumes per. year the law review is managed and edited by law students at the University of Iceland. The editorial board consist of an Editor-in-Chief, two Executive Directors, and ten general editors and between two to three executive assistants. In recent years an Academic board has also been active. By invitation of the Editor-in-Chief, at least three distinguished legal scholars, mainly faculty members or renowned jurists, form an academic board, processing and editing alongside the editorial board. This is in order to safeguard a standard of academic peer reviewing.

The law review is a general review, considering submissions concerning all aspects of the law and relative issues, not having any preferences to specific fields of interest. The law review mainly publishes articles and notes, however it also publishes case notes, discussion articles on matters of legal interest, news of legislation and reviews on academic papers and literature. It also occasionally publishes interviews with jurists and news from the faculty and information of interest to the students. Final decision of publication is at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief.

Some articles and/or essays, often within a specific subject, are recieved on the bases of invitation from the editorial board.

In recent years authours have mainly been law academics, judges, law students at postgraduate and doctoral level, jurists and practicing lawyers and attorneys. Nearly all submissions are written in Icelandic, however the law review does generally except submissions in English and/or in any of the other Nordic languages. Reviewing may take a longer time depending on the language.

Since 1987 the law review has run a small specialized bookstore at Lögberg, (The Faculty of Law Building) that deals solely with literature of a legal nature. It currently stocks over 150 Icelandic titles. The law review also runs a small publishing operation promoting the publication of academic material directly intended for the use of law students studying at the faculty. Alongside student essay competitions the law review founded a Legal Research Fund (Fræðasjóður Úlfljóts) in 2005. In 2007 the law review spearheaded the founding and jointly financed, along with the Ministry of Justice, the first fully equipped courtroom at an Icelandic university, intended for student Moot-Courts and the training of law students at the faculty.

The law review welcomes submissions to the editorial board and will take all work in to serious consideration for review. Due to a meticulous standard of editing and a close reviewing process, we kindly request that contributors be aware that the process may take some time, the law review is unable to alter the review process. An expedited review may be preformed on the request of the authour; we will however not omit any of our review processing. All submissions are reviewed anonymously.

For further information on how to submit and submission guidelines, on review process, copyright matters and preference for exclusivity etc., please contact the editorial board either by postage or via e-mail.

Address:

Úlfljótur, tímarit laganema - Editorial Board
Lögberg, Háskóli Íslands
101 Reykjavík
Iceland

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