Founded in 1987, the Journal fosters contemporary discourse on judicial decisions, legislation, law reform, and other legal and social issues facing public policy decision-makers. Each issue contains both analytical and thought-provoking articles written by lawyers, judges, scholars, and public officials. The Journal is published four times a year by the University of Florida Levin College of Law. The Journal is designed to serve the needs of professionals, researchers, instructors, and students in the academic fields of law and public policy, journalism and mass communications, business and social science, and other related disciplines, as well as law libraries, policy analysts, and public officials.

The University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy publishes three print issues and one forum (online) issue annually and actively seeks articles for publication. All submissions to the Journal should be in final form and should conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation whenever possible. However, we are aware that authors in disciplines outside of law may be unfamiliar with the Bluebook system of citation. In such cases, authors should submit articles in the citation format with which they are most familiar. The Journal editors will work with those authors to convert their citations to Bluebook format.