Our Mission

About

The Loyola University New Orleans Journal of Public Interest Law is a scholarly journal published semiannually by a student editorial board with faculty supervision. Founded as the Loyola Poverty Law Journal in the spring semester of 1995, the Journal publishes scholarly articles, practitioner articles, lectures, and student comments addressing a diverse range of national and international public interest legal issues.

Invitations for candidacy are extended by the Editor-in-Chief to students who comprise the top 33% of the freshman class following the second semester of their first year. Students may also become candidates by participating in a casenote “write-on” competition. Students who are in the top 50% of their class following their second semester of study are invited to participate. To become a full member of JPIL, candidates must assist the Journal with editing articles to be published and must write a student comment.

Our Mission

The mission of this journal is the advancement of legal education and scholarship through the publication of a journal known as the Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law. The Journal seeks to create a forum for the discussion of legal issues faced by the poor, the elderly, children and all other individuals who may be unable to afford legal representation. The management and publication of the Journal is primarily a student responsibility, subject to advice and recommendations from the Faculty and Law Clinic Faculty of the Loyola University College of Law.