Its main office is at the Justice Alex A. Reyes Room of Malcolm Hall, University of the Philippines Diliman.

Founded in the earlier part of the American Occupation, only three years after the University of the Philippines College of Law’s establishment in 1911, the journal served as a platform for the country's first legal scholars and luminaries to discuss highly contentious issues which would later become the foundations of our current laws and jurisprudence.

Decades thereafter, the rationale behind our legal system's policy to protect indigenous people's rights sprang from theories originally presented in the journal.

On several occasions, the journal advocated the advancement of reforms to the law curriculum and legal education, the formation of policies protecting academic freedom.

The inaugural issue featured a message from Justice Malcolm, which encouraged students to publish and maintain a law journal that would stimulate discourse and disseminate legal knowledge.

The issues after the war contained annual surveys of Philippine Supreme Court decisions, case digests, recent legislation, and book reviews of local and foreign works.

Impelled by the activism of the Journal's editors and its student and faculty contributors, articles prominently published in the late 1970s and the 1980s included those on native titles, indigenous peoples’ rights, pre-Hispanic legal systems, and academic freedom.

In these areas, the Journal became an important resource, and was cited in the deliberations of the 1986 Constitutional Commission which drafted the Philippines’ present charter.

In 2010, at the height of the disciplinary proceedings against the 37 faculty members of the College of Law who publicly spoke against the alleged plagiarism in Vinuya v. Executive Secretary,[1] the journal released a strong statement on defending legal scholarship.

A new board composed of sophomore, junior and senior students of the College of Law is formed annually, following a competitive examination graded by a committee of faculty members.

[2] The issues of the journal are distributed to various legal and educational institutions in the Philippines and abroad, including the United States, Canada, England, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Australia, Japan, India, China, Malaysia, South Africa, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil.