UC Law Science and Technology Journal

What UC Law Science and Technology Journal does

The UC Law Science and Technology Journal is the title of a specific peer-edited law journal hosted within the UC Law SF Scholarship Repository, which is the broader institutional repository operated by the UC Law San Francisco libraries (the law school formerly known as UC Hastings, part of the University of California system). The repository itself functions as a digital archive and dissemination platform for the law school's scholarly output, serving UC Law SF faculty, students, alumni, legal researchers, judges, and the broader academic legal community. Its core products are organized into distinct collections covering Faculty Scholarship, Faculty Books, The Judges' Book, Law Journals (which include the Science and Technology Journal), Student Scholarship, and Past Exams.

The underlying technology is Elsevier's Digital Commons platform, a widely deployed institutional repository framework used across North American universities. The repository exposes metadata, full-text search, and persistent identifiers (handles/URLs) for deposited scholarship, and participation in the Digital Commons Network extends discoverability to a federated audience of academic users. Content is organized by collection type and by contributor, with editorial workflows managed through the Digital Commons back end.

The business model is non-commercial: as a public university entity, the repository does not sell access, charge user fees, or generate revenue in the conventional sense. Funding flows through the University of California's institutional budget for UC Law San Francisco rather than through investor capital or customer contracts. The repository's value proposition is academic dissemination and preservation, not commercial monetization.

Name

UC Law Science and Technology Journal

Legal name

UC Law San Francisco

Website

https://repository.uchastings.edu

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The UC Law Science and Technology Journal is a peer-edited law review hosted within the UC Law SF Scholarship Repository, a non-commercial institutional repository operated by UC Law San Francisco on Elsevier's Digital Commons platform, serving faculty, students, legal researchers, and judges.

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Product category

Academic Law Journal

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113), Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (611310)

SIC

Miscellaneous Publishing (2741), Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2731), Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro primary industry

Law & Legal Studies Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Law School Research Centers & Institutes (e.g., Law & Economics, Human Rights) (EDAHAIAJ), Academic & Scholarly Journals Publishing (Peer-Reviewed) (MPAJABAC)

Keywords

• Academic law journals
• Legal scholarship
• Scholarly publishing
• Institutional repository
• Science technology law

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco, California

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

UC Law Science and Technology Journal is a scholarly academic journal focused on legal scholarship at the intersection of science, technology, and law. It is hosted within the UC Law SF Scholarship Repository, a Digital Commons–based institutional archive operated by UC Law San Francisco Libraries, providing open access to peer-reviewed journal articles, faculty scholarship, student work, and special collections.

Product overview

UC Law SF Scholarship Repository is not a commercial product company but rather an institutional digital archive and scholarship repository operated by UC Law San Francisco libraries. It hosts faculty scholarship, law journals, student scholarship, past exams, and special collections. The repository is built on Elsevier's Digital Commons platform and does not offer a distinct product portfolio with commercial offerings, modules, or add-ons.

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Products and services

• UC Law Science and Technology Journal A peer-reviewed scholarly law journal publishing academic articles focused on legal issues at the intersection of science and technology. It serves law faculty, legal scholars, law students, judges, and practitioners seeking open access legal scholarship in this specialized area.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Elsevier (Digital Commons)coreTechnology or IntegrationElsevier provides the Digital Commons platform infrastructure that hosts the UC Law SF Scholarship Repository. This is a technology hosting partnership where Elsevier's platform enables the university to manage, preserve, and distribute its scholarly output.
• Digital Commons NetworkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe repository is part of the Digital Commons Network, a consortium of institutional repositories across multiple academic disciplines including Law, Architecture, Arts, Business, Education, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medicine, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences, enabling cross-institutional discovery and collaboration.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• JSTOR: A major digital library archiving academic journals, books, and primary sources. Overlaps with the repository on long-term preservation of scholarly output and cross-institutional discovery.
• MIT Press: A leading academic publisher with deep law-and-technology titles (e.g., journals and book series in tech policy). Comparable as an academic publishing entity that competes for tech-law scholarship.
• HeinOnline: A large-scale commercial legal content database with deep archival coverage of law reviews and historical legal documents. It overlaps with the UC Law SF repository in archiving historical law-school output and ballot materials.
• SSRN (Social Science Research Network): Elsevier-owned preprint and working-paper repository hosting legal scholarship across hundreds of institutions. It competes for depositing authors and reader attention and operates a much larger scale than any single law school repository.

Direct peers

• Harvard Law Review: The flagship general law journal of Harvard Law School. While not tech-focused, it is the most cited US law journal and serves as the benchmark peer for any academically-rigorous law school publication.
• Stanford Technology Law Review: Stanford Law School's student-edited technology-focused law journal. It directly competes with the Science and Technology Journal for tech-law scholarship and readership, with a parallel online-first publishing model.
• Stanford Law Review: Stanford Law School's flagship general law journal. Closely comparable in prestige, format, and editorial model, even though it lacks the specific tech-law focus.
• Berkeley Technology Law Journal: A peer-edited law journal at UC Berkeley focused on the intersection of law and technology. It is the closest direct peer to the UC Law Science and Technology Journal — same tech-law niche, same UC system affiliation, and similar open-access scholarly publishing model.
• Yale Journal of Law & Technology: Yale Law School's tech-law journal and a leading venue in the same scholarly niche. Strongly comparable on subject matter (law × technology), publishing format, and prestige tier.

Others

• bepress (Elsevier Digital Commons): The platform vendor that hosts the UC Law SF repository. Directly comparable as the underlying technology stack and is the most operationally similar peer at the infrastructure layer.

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Strengths4 records

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Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

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