The McGill Law Journal was founded in 1952 by students of the Faculty of Law of McGill University. From its founding, the Journal has promoted the development of legal scholarship by appealing to an audience that includes professors of law, practicing lawyers, and law students. La Revue est une institution bilingue, reflétant ainsi une caractéristique essentielle de la Faculté de droit de l’Université McGill. L’équipe éditoriale est par conséquent composée d’étudiants francophones et anglophones, travaillant à la sélection et à la correction des articles rédigés dans chacune des langues. La Revue possède un statut bijuridique qui lui confère une grande polyvalence. Le Québec étant au carrefour des deux grandes traditions de droit privé, les premiers rédacteurs de la Revue ont tout de suite reconnu son potentiel comme outil de développement de la doctrine civiliste en anglais. Aujourd’hui, la Revue publie, tant en français qu’en anglais, des textes traitant de sujets variés de droit civil et de common law, en accordant une place importante au droit comparé. Inspired by the tradition of American law reviews, the Journal is entirely student-run. In order to ensure the quality of its content, all manuscripts selected for publication are peer-reviewed by scholars from Canada and around the world. The Journal has over the years garnered significant recognition in Canada and around the world. It is one of the publications most often cited by the Supreme Court of Canada. Subscribers to the Journal reside in over forty countries across six continents. The Journal also actively contributes to the development of Canadian legal methodology by publishing the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation, which has become a standard reference work for almost all Canadian law journals as well as many courts across the country.
