The Law Review Write-On Competition 2009 is now over. Selected
candidates have been notified via email.
The Law Review invites all students who do not
meet the grade-on selection criteria, and who are not part of the
Comprehensive Curriculum Program, to participate in the Annual Write-On
Competition. The writing competition requires students to
demonstrate their writing and substantive legal analysis skills by
drafting a short paper based on a fact pattern that is developed by the
Law Review.
Click Write-on Competition Problem for the 2009 fact pattern.
Submissions Format
Citation
and Footnote Format
Research
Requirements
How to Submit
Selection Process
Number of
Write-On Invitations
When Invitations Will
Be Extended
Membership
Requirements
Contact
Information
The problem will be available online. All submissions must adhere to a limit of 3,000 words (footnote text counts for purposes of word count). Anything in excess of that limit will not be read. In addition, please format your submission as follows:
- Text should be double-spaced in Times New Roman 12-point font.
- All citations must appear in footnotes (not endnotes). All footnotes should be single-spaced in Times New Roman 10-point font.
- Margins should measure one inch.
- Print on single sides of paper and staple the pages in the upper left corner.
- A cover page must accompany your paper. Because the papers will be read anonymously, DO NOT put your name anywhere on the paper itself. Instead, your submission should be accompanied by a cover page listing your name and contact information, including daytime and evening phone numbers and NYLS address. Any submission that includes your name on the pages of your paper will be disqualified.
- Submit 2 copies.
- Please use page numbers.
- All citations must conform either to the Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation or to the ALWD Citation Manual. Copies of both are available on reserve in the NYLS Library.
This is not intended to be a research project. Rather, the competition is designed to allow you to demonstrate your writing and analytical skills. You will be given a fact pattern as well as relevant law and asked to analyze the legal issues.
All papers must be submitted according to one of the following two methods. Any submissions received after the specified deadlines will not be read.
- Hand delivery. Hand deliver two copies of your paper to the Registrar's Office, between 10am-1pm and 2pm-5pm.The Registrar's Office is located on the 2nd floor of the A Building.
- Overnight Delivery. Submissions sent by Overnight Delivery must be postmarked by 5pm on the due date. If you choose to submit your paper by mail, it must be sent via Overnight Delivery (e.g., via Federal Express, UPS, USPS Express Mail). The mailing address is:
New York Law School Law
Review
New York Law School
c/o Usheevii King
57 Worth
Street - 8th Floor
New York, NY. 10013
Please label your package "Write-On Competition"
The Law Review editorial board and its Publisher, Professor Cameron Stracher, will review all submissions and extend membership invitations to those students whose papers exhibit excellent writing and analysis. All submissions are reviewed anonymously.
Number of Write-On
Invitations
There is no limit to the number of students who may write-on. Invitations are extended based on the merit of the written submission only. In 2008, the Law Review received approximately 50 write-on submissions and extended invitations to three students.
When Invitations Will Be Extended
If you are selected to join the Law Review, we will contact you no later than one week after submission date by email and/or phone.
All students invited to join the Law Review will be required to attend our Orientation beginning Monday, August 17, 2009. In addition, all Law Review members are required to register for Legal Scholarship, a seminar course offered once per week in the Fall semester.
- All inquiries, including those that arise during the competition itself, should be directed to Usheevii King, Law Review Publications Coordinator, at usheevii.king@nyls.edu or 212-431-2109.
- For general inquiries about the Law Review, please contact Sara Mirsky, Editor-In-Chief, at sara.mirsky@law.nyls.edu
