The UCLA Women's Law Journal publishes Articles, Essays, Recent Developments, Book Reviews, and Student Scholarship.

Articles most closely resemble "traditional" legal scholarship. Generally, an article is formal in tone and is heavily footnoted.

Essays are more conversational in tone, often shorter, and more informally written. Essays include alternative forms of legal writing, such as narratives, speeches, and writings on nontraditional legal subjects.

Recent Developments track current developments in the law as they affect women. They can be short or long, but tend to be narrowly focused on a single issue. They encompass a wide variety of writing. They may include substantive legal analysis or may simply survey a given area of law.

Book Reviews are critical reviews of published books. A Book Review critiques both the issues raised in the book and the author's treatment of those issues. It critiques the author's premise, methods, and conclusion. The book need not portray itself as addressing women's legal issues, so long as the reviewer demonstrates the book's potential impact on women and the law, or uses rigorous application of Feminist Legal Theory in critique. Book Reviews are normally between five and twenty pages long.

Student Scholarship consists of entirely student-written works and can take the form of an Article, Essay, Recent Development, or Book Review. The WLJ is unique in that it will consider publishing student works in any of the above categories.