A huge thank you and pat on the back goes to our current Webmaster and Executive Articles Editor Nick Cordell for putting together a fantastic new Chicago-Kent Law Review Alumni Networking Site.  The Site is in its infant stages, but it is ready to become an effective networking tool for recent Chicago-Kent Law Review grads and practicing partner Law Review alumni alike. 

The site is similar to a C-K Law Review Alumni social networking site.  Some of its features include:

 -  Individual Profiles with an ability to edit information such as (1) Profile picture, (2) Class, (3) Bio Info, (4) Preferred Contact Information, (5) Address/Current City, (6) Employment History, and (7) Practice Area(s);

-  An alphbetical list of all registered alumni; and

-  A search function allowing the user to search any of the fields above and more.

Current staff will receive an email in the near future re registration.  I highly encourage all of you to register. 

Alumni, I will be sending an email to a limited list of emails that I have, asking for participation in the network .  However, if you are reading this post and wish to participate in the network, please email me at cklawreview@gmail.com and include your name, class year, and volume(s) of the Law Review published by your class.  After a quick check that you are actually an alum, someone from our staff will email you the registration information and a link to the site.    

I am excited to get the Chicago-Kent Law Review Alumni directory up and running.  The more people in the network, the better tool it becomes, so please participate!

And again, a huge shout out to Nick Cordell, who really did all the heavy lifting putting the site together.

Brian Langs, EIC, 2010-2011

Law Review Elections were held over the weekend.  Please allow me to introduce and congratulate the 2011-2012 Chicago-Kent Law Review Executive Board:

Margaret Master, Editor-in-Chief

Travis Bayer, Managing Editor

Daaron Kimmel, Executive Notes and Comments Editor

Jeff Blake, Executive Articles Editor

Lauren Emery, Executive Articles Editor

Jacquelyn Hill, Executive Articles Editor

Brian Kebbekus, Executive Articles Editor

Joshua Lurie, Executive Articles Editor

Andrew Medeiros, Executive Articles Editor

Charles Spiekerman, Executive Articles Editor

Grant Swanson, Executive Articles Editor

James Vergara, Executive Articles Editor

On behalf of the rest of the current Executive Board, we are excited to leave the Law Review in such capable hands.

This conference, jointly organized by the Chicago-Kent Law Review and the Institute for European Tort Law, in collaboration with the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law, will address liability for medical malpractice and compensation for medical injuries from 14 national and regional perspectives drawn from 6 continents.  It offers a truly global comparative analysis.

Contributors include: Kinga Baczyk-Rozwasowska, Poland; Pieter Carstens, South Africa; Loutjie Coetzee, South Africa; Eduardo Dantas, Brazil; Claudia DiMarzo, Italy; Colleen Flood, Canada; Richard Goldberg, UK; Florence G’Sell-Macrez, France; Mette Hartlez, Denmark; Geneviéve Helleringer, France; David Hyman, USA; Bernhard A. Koch, Austria; Rob Leflar, Japan; Ken Oliphant, Overview; Mårten Schultz, Sweden; Charles Silver, USA; Marc Stauch, Germany; Stephen Todd, New Zealand; Vibe Ulfbeck, Denmark; Zhu Wang, China (PRC); Richard Wright, Overview.

Hello everyone – just a quick note now that our program has gotten underway:

TO ALL PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATES – PLEASE READ THE PROGRAM INSTRUCTIONS FIRST BEFORE CONTACTING ANY OF THE LAW REVIEW STAFF WITH QUESTIONS.  I’ve been getting a lot of questions that 1) shouldn’t even be directed to me because of the anonymity barrier that we set up during the program and 2) would be easily answered by merely reading the program instructions.  The program instructions are the governing rules for the program and should have all the information you need.

Also note that we have a hard GPA cutoff for eligibility.  Now that the program is started we are no longer accepting individual petitions for a variance in our requirements.

And finally, all entries need to be completely your own personal effort, from start to finish - not only are you not allowed to consult with any others (students and non-students) during the writing process, you are not allowed to consult with any others in discussing the topic.

If you have any questions about the program between now and the first week of August, please contact the staff members listed in the Program Instructions.  And, don’t forget the Program Materials are linked in the post below this one.

The 2010 Summer Candidacy Program Materials are now posted.

In advance of our open informational session, here are some FAQs about the Chicago-Kent Law Review Summer Candidacy Program.

Question:  Is the Summer Candidacy Program a writing competition where only a fixed number of candidates will be invited to join Law Review?

Answer: No.  The Summer Candidacy Program is not a writing competition and the Law Review does not have a formal limit on the number of candidates it invites.  The Chicago-Kent Law Review will invite all candidates whose submissions meet the Law Review’s standards.  In previous years, the Law Review invited a significant number of participants to join based on their performance in the Summer Candidacy Program.

Question:  Does the Summer Candidacy Program require extensive research?

Answer: No.  The Summer Candidacy Program utilizes a closed-research format, and outside research is not permitted. Each candidate’s analysis is confined to the sources in the 2009 Summer Candidacy Program Packet.  The Program Packet will be accessible on the new Chicago-Kent Law Review website (www.cklawreview.com) on July 1, 2010.

Question: How are Summer Candidacy Program submissions evaluated?

Answer: The Chicago-Kent Law Review Executive Board judges papers on their own merits based on analytical ability, writing ability and style, ability to develop endnotes,

proper ALWD form, and appropriate use of sources. Additionally, all papers are submitted anonymously, so the Executive Board will not know the identities of any candidates.

Question: How many members of the current Chicago-Kent Law Review wrote-on?

Answer: A substantial percentage of the Law Review’s current membership consists of students who successfully participated in the Summer Candidacy Program.  In fact, around half of the current Executive Board wrote-on to Law Review. The Chicago-Kent Law Review values the Summer Candidacy Program and is proud to accept qualified candidates based on their performance in the program.

As previously announced, the 2010 Summer Candidacy Program will run from July 1-19

If you have any questions before the Summer Candidacy Program, please contact Executive Notes and Comments Editor, Andrew Jung at ajung@kentlaw.edu

The following students have graded onto the Chicago-Kent Law Review!  You all will have an opportunity to accept an invitation to become a member of the Review.  Please expect an email from me sometime next week.  Congratulations! 

Travis M. Bayer 
Katherine G. Cisneros 
Jeffrey M. Cisowski 
Katherine L. Goyert 
Richard E. Gutierrez 
Jacquelyn M. Hill 
Michael R. Johnson 
David G. Jorgensen 
Brian L. Kebbekus 
John K. Kennedy 
Margaret K. Master 
Diana W. Myers 
Kelly Noonan 
Bradley E. Puklin 
Rachel A. Remke 
Matthew B. Rudolph 
Charles M. Spiekerman 
Caroline A. Teichner 
Jonathan R. Walton 
Jordan E. Wilkow     

- Brian Langs

TO: All prospective Law Review candidates

Confirming our Open Informational Session next week:
For any students interested in the Law Review or the Summer Candidacy Program, the Law Review will be holding an open informational session on Tuesday, June 29th from 8:30 to 9:30 pm in Room 580.  We will go through the Program requirements and instructions and have an open “question and answer” session about the Program and the Law Review generally.  If you have any questions about the Program and cannot make the informational session, please contact me.

 
Regards,
 
Andrew M. Jung
Executive Notes and Comments Editor,
Chicago-Kent Law Review
ajung@kentlaw.edu

We have confirmed that the Summer Candidacy Program will run from July 1 to July 19.  For further details on how the program works generally, feel free to check out the materials from last year’s program that have been left under the “Prospective Members” tab and the “Summer Candidacy Materials” sub-folder.  We will have the updated materials (minus the actual problem, of course) posted to that area of our website next week.

- Andrew

Hello everyone,

 I just wanted to give a quick update about our upcoming Summer Candidacy Program (also know as the “SCP” or the “write-on”).  We have not finalized the program starting date with 100% certainty because we are waiting for confirmation about when class ranks will be released.  Initially we planned to start the program on July 5th.  However, if class ranks will be released in time, we would like to start the program on July 1st.  Either way, the program will end on July 19th.  Everything will be electronic, so if you are out of the area during those days you can still participate.

 Check back on this page within the next week to 10 days for more information, as well as the confirmed start date and an advance copy of the program instructions.

We will be holding an informational session sometime late next week that is open for any prospective candidates to get information about the law review and the SCP.  A post (and hopefully a school-wide email) will follow with the specifics of that meeting as well.

Thanks!

Andrew M. Jung

Executive Notes and Comments Editor