Next week is thet start of the law review write-on competition. More work for everyone (most of all the law review members who have to score the entries) but it's a much fairer way to select people than a grade-on.
A grade-on means the top 10% or so of the class, based on legal writing grades or overall GPA, is automatically promoted to law review. This is a form of regressive taxation. People can do poorly on exams for a variety of reasons having nothing to do with the skills they need on a law review. So the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.
People who got lower grades have already been penalized once for their performance; making them ineligible for law review with a grade-on just penalizes them again for the same crime.
That said I'm somewhat surprised that only 1/3 of the 1L class participates in the competition. What's the downside? I mean, aside from spending half your spring break on what amounts to a 40 hr take home exam? That's about as much fun as you can have with your pants on.
08 Mar 05
What's the downside? How about being on Law Review?
Posted by: anonymous at March 11, 2005 08:32 AMDon't go there. If you do, you'll form a black hole that will suck in all of law school.
Posted by: MB at March 12, 2005 07:02 AM