Law Review Membership

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Membership in the law review is among the highest honors and responsibilities that a student can receive during their law school career. Membership in the Golden Gate University Law Review provides students with an opportunity to develop their skills in legal research, writing, and analysis. Third-year law review members gain considerable experience as an editor of the law review.

Approximately 50 second-year and third-year students staff the law review. Membership on law review is determined in two ways: by first-year grades (top 10 percent) or through a writing competition that is held during the middle of the second semester of the first-year. Minimum academic requirements for an invitation to join law review include a 3.0 GPA and a grade of at least B in Legal Writing and Research II.

Law review is a two-year commitment and members earn six academic credits. Two units are awarded for the first semester and one unit for the second semester for both second-year and third-year students.

All second-year students on law review are required to write a note or a comment. Students spend the summer after their first year and the fall semester of their second year researching and writing their topic. The spring semester is primarily for production work, which includes revising final drafts and cite checking articles on the publishing track.

The requirements for third-year law review members are predominantly editorial. As an associate editor, all third-year members are responsible for editing all student and outside authors' manuscripts. Additionally, third-year members have an opportunity to run for editorial board positions.