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Provides a forum for the discussion of central issues affecting the Latino community; first legal journal that recognized how common law, statutes, legislative policy, and politically popular proposition impact the Latino community.

Deals with South and Central America, its political dynamics, economic policies, and institutions, and its future.

The Harvard Latinx Law Review (HLLR) provides a forum for the scholarly discussion of legal issues affecting Latinx communities in the United States. Recent articles (Volume 23) have addressed issues including analyzing the effects of anti-immigrant laws in the U.S. on victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking through a gender-based human rights lens, framing political animosities between sexual minorities and churches in Cuba’s new Constitution, the consequences of antidumping and countervailing duty laws on immigration and poverty, the riddle of whether the Puerto Rico Oversight Board is a federal or territorial entity, and Latinidad, white supremacy, and reforming first-year moot court competitions to confront racial and ethnic bias. The previous volume (Volume 22) addressed issues including critically re-examining immigration rhetoric and policy under the Trump administration, utilizing congressional investigations to improve National Hurricane Preparedness, expanding the immigration caging machine regardless of Nielsen and the implications of environmental law and Latino property rights on modern-age border security.

The Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies (JOLLAS) is an interdisciplinary, international, and peer reviewed on-line journal housed at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The journal seeks to be reflective of the shifting demographics, geographic dispersion, and new community formations occurring among Latino populations across borders and throughout the Americas. The journal emphasizes the collective understanding of Latino issues in the U.S. while recognizing the growing importance of transnationalism and the porous borders of Latino/Latin American identities.

The Journal of Politics in Latin America is a peer reviewed, Open Access journal focused on comparative politics in Latin America. The journal is dedicated to promoting a deeper understanding of the political process and political institutions in the region.

Latin American Politics and Society publishes the highest-quality original social science scholarship on Latin America. The Editorial Board, comprising leading U.S., Latin American, and European scholars, is dedicated to challenging prevailing orthodoxies and promoting innovative theoretical and methodological perspectives on the states, societies, economies, and international relations of the Americas in a globalizing world. In addition to its traditional research articles, Latin American Politics and Society includes Critical Debates—review essays that survey major themes in recent Latin American studies literature. The Policy Issues section presents contending perspectives on major issues of significant policy relevance, and Research Notes is an outlet for shorter pieces with questions of data, theory, and method. The Book Review section provides critiques individual books.