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University of La Verne Law Review 2008 Membership Selection Policy Membership on the University of La Verne Law Review is the result of a selective process, based on both grades and successful completion of a write-on competition. Beginning with Volume 30 (2008-2009), the 2L staff will consist of 20 members. All students whose cumulative GPA after completing 29 units places them at the rank of 40 or above in the full-time first year class are eligible to compete in the write-on competition for membership in the law review. The write-on competition takes place over a one-week period in the summer, and consists of two parts: a “closed universe” memo (5-7 pages) on a topic of current legal interest, and a cite-checking (“Bluebooking”) exercise. The write-on competition is scored on a 4.0 scale. The student’s “grade” on the write-on competition is then combined with his or her GPA, to generate a “law review index.” Hence, a student with a cumulative GPA of 3.5 will not need to score nearly as high on the write-on competition as one with a cumulative GPA of 2.5. Subject to the exception described below, the 20 students with the highest law review index scores will be invited to join the law review; if any decline, offers are made to the next-highest-scoring candidate, until the staff of 20 is filled. However, any student ranked in the top 5, by cumulative GPA, among all students eligible to write on in a given year, who completes the write-on competition in good faith but is not among the top 20 by law review index score, is guaranteed a spot on the law review. In the most extreme case, this may mean that only the top 15 scorers are invited, together with the top 5 ranked students. (However, it would be very unusual for students ranked in the top 5 in the class, who completed the write-on competition, not to end up in the top 20 overall.) Membership on the University of La Verne Law Review is ordinarily a 2-year commitment. However, in the event that members of the 2L staff elect not to return in their third year (or do not complete their service in their first year of membership and are not invited to return), spaces on the staff will be made available to students ranked in the top 30 after their second year of law school. Selection will be by a write-on competition, combined with GPA, as described above. The Editorial Board of Volume 30 of the University of La Verne Law Review consists of the Editor in Chief, the Executive Editor, the Chief Notes and Comments Editor, the Juvenile Law Editor, the Symposium Articles Editor, the Business & Technology Editor, the Senior Notes & Comments Editor, the Senior Citations Editor, the Publications Editor, the Administrative Editor, and the Production Manager. (The precise composition of the Editorial Board may change from year to year.) The Editorial Board members are selected in February. Only Members of the University of La Verne Law Review are eligible to serve as members of the Editorial Board. Members of the staff not selected for the Editorial Board serve as senior staff members in their 3L year.         University of La Verne Law Review's Terms of Use This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. Click here to view our Publication Agreement.