UCL Faculty of Laws is excited to announce that its flagship publication, Current Legal Problems, is to be published by UCL Press from 2026.
Current Legal Problems is an annual volume, bringing together scholarly articles from world-leading academics since 1948, across all areas of legal scholarship. The published work follows an invited public lecture in the Faculty – an increasingly rare opportunity for scholars to set out their work in an open and accessible forum before academic peers, practitioners and the general public.
As our longstanding agreement with Oxford University Press comes to an end, we are very grateful to them for their support for Current Legal Problems over many decades.
However, with the changing landscape of academic publishing, including the move towards more open access publishing, the time is right to transition Current Legal Problems to UCL’s own publishing house. UCL Press specialises in Gold Open Access and online publishing and recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary.
Professor Colm O’Cinneide, Vice Dean (Research) of the UCL Faculty of Laws, commented: “The Faculty welcomes this exciting new chapter in the story of Current Legal Problems, one of the UK’s pre-eminent academic legal publications. It has been an outlet for cutting-edge research for more than half a century, and is an important part of the Faculty’s heritage. The move is particularly timely, coinciding with UCL’s bicentennial celebrations in 2026. UCL Press becoming the publisher and making the volume fully open access is a fitting way to mark this important occasion.”
The current editors of Current Legal Problems have reflected on the importance of the publication ‘coming home’: “The time is right to transition Current Legal Problems to UCL Press. We are very grateful to Oxford University Press for their longstanding support for Current Legal Problems.”
The Commissioning Editor of UCL Press, Pat Gordon-Smith, said: “UCL Press is delighted to be taking on this prestigious work. From 2026, we will make Current Legal Problems available in open access for the first time, publishing it as a yearbook, with individual contributions and the whole volume all downloadable free of charge from the moment of publication.”
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