Law Review Project

Scribes supports law reviews and law review editors in a variety of ways. For decades, Scribes has presented the Best Law Review Article award to the best student-written paper published in a law review. In 2022, the organization produced The Scribes Manual for Law Review Editors, which includes 19 chapters to help editors understand and perform their myriad responsibilities. During 2022-2023, Scribes presented a monthly webinar series to further explore topics of interest to editors. And in March 2023, Scribes hosted the first virtual National Conference for Law Review Editors. The conference featured speakers such as Professor Richard Delgado, Professor Martha Minow, and Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner. In addition, every other year, Scribes will conduct a national survey of law reviews on a variety of topics.

Are you a law review editor or faculty advisor? Scribes seeks your help with an important national project: our 2023-2024 national survey of law reviews. This survey is a follow-up to our 2021-2022 survey, the results of which are posted at https://www.scribes.org/law–review-project/.

We are asking each student-edited law review or law journal in the U.S. to participate in the survey, which is available at the following link: https://www.surveyhero.com/c/lawreview  We are seeking responses by January 29, 2024.
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Working with Student Authors by Professors Jessica Lynn Wherry and Kristen E. Murray (Sunday, August 27, 2023)

This program, which was designed for law review editors who supervise the student note-and-comment writing process, covered topics including common challenges for student authors and editors, giving thoughtful feedback throughout the writing process, and tips for effective author-editor collaboration.

Program for Law Review/Law Journal Faculty Advisors: The Impact of AI on Academic Journals (Sunday, September 10, 2023). The program addressed the impact of Generative AI on write-on competitions, student notes and comments, and vetting lead articles. Topics included potential policies, acknowledgments, and process changes. Scribes wants to give faculty advisors a forum to meet each other and discuss common challenges. Scribes plans to host two meetings per academic year.

The Impact of AI on Academic Journals (for Student Editors) (Sunday, September 24, 2023).

The program addressed the impact of Generative AI on write-on competitions, student notes and comments, and vetting lead articles. Topics included potential policies, acknowledgments, and process changes.

Please join us for the following events:

Sunday, April 7, 2024: National Conference for Law Review Editors, 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT through 7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT. Registration will open in early November. Please check this site for details. The conference is free for student-editors at Scribes member schools. Learn more about memberships. The fee for non-member journals to send up to 5 students will be $300; we will again offer discounts to schools who wish to register multiple journals. The fee includes one year of access for each journal to conference materials on the Scribes Canvas site.

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