The student publication includes scholarly work on an array of topics, such as affirmative action and education, Spanish and Mexican land grants, environmental justice, language rights, and immigration reform.
[1] From the beginning of its publication, the most pervasive issue addressed in the Chicanx Latinx Law Review is immigration.
There have been many articles discussing the formation of the Latino identity within the United States, especially topics involving the importance of language.
The issue of language, within schools and in the greater US society at large, is examined closely in many articles that have been published in CLLR throughout its history.
Other common topics and issues that have been covered in the Chicanx Latinx Law Review since its founding are naturalization, employment and undocumented labor, voting and the protection of other fundamental rights, criminal justice in regard to the Latino community, the political mobilization of the Latino community, and environmental justice.