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We’re grateful for\u003Cbr>all of your hard work this week and always :)\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>Thumbs somewhere? to frostbite. Someone call ANG an amb- |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  | Thumbs down to whoever made the mysterious wet footprints\u003Cbr>found in the Law School on Sunday. 434-243-5150 is the phone number for CAPS if you need it.\u003Cbr>See back page for that~chilling~photograph.\u003Cbr>|  |\n\nGoodbye to Law Reviews?  \nJason Vanger '27 Features Editor  \nare wondering,“What is the point of journal tryouts?” After all, with the new Big Law recruiting timeline, students will have positions lined up before they hear back from journals. Could a drop in student participation undermine the law review system? Answering this question requires examining what exactly law reviews do.  \nThe actual duties of a law review editor are fairly straightforward. Students start as Editorial Board members whose main duties are substantiating, bluebooking, and editing. Each student is assigned a portion of a draft selected for publishing. Substantiating involves preparing pdfs of sources and confirming that they support the propositions for which they are cited. Bluebooking is ensuring that citations conform to the Bluebook style guide, like the editing portion of journal tryouts. When it comes  \nto editing the body, some journals, such as the Virginia Law Review, follow a “light edit” approach and restrict themselves to correcting grammatical and spelling errors, but other journals may suggest more extensive revisions.  \nStudents can eventually run for leadership positions on the Managing Board. Responsibilities vary by position, but many are similar to those in other student organizations, such as maintaining the website, event planning, budgeting, coordinating teambuilding activities, and the like. More unique to journals are duties like selecting which articles to publish, managing the edits, and liaising with authors.  \nJournals also come with a few perks. Each journal has its own office with some amenities. There might be one or two teambuilding events per semester. Students will often receive a mentor in the year above them and can get access to outlines. One last factor to be aware of is Virginia Law Review’s note  \nrequirement, which requires students to submit a paper for publication before graduation.  \nSo how valuable is this all? As one law firm partner told me, journal experience shows two things: You have high grades, which will be on your resume regardless, and other twenty-somethings think you’re a good writer, which means nothing. More importantly, to my mind, law review demonstrates attention to detail anda willingness to spend a significant amount of time doing document review and editing. That’snot a criticism: Such matters are essential for junior lawyers.  \nAlthough this may not sound all that appealing, the costs of law review are also, in my opinion, overstated. Spending a couple weeks a semester doing boring and tedious, but not especially difficult, editing is not the end of the world. Frankly, it’s what you signed on for when you decided to become a lawyer.  \nSo much","cbCaijs8vrqrrmdH","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijs8vrqrrmdH","pdf",4555928,"English","# Goodbye to Law Reviews?\n## Duties of law review editors\n## Perks and costs for students\n## Impact on legal scholarship\n## Critiques and defenses","[{\"question\":\"What do law review editors actually do during journal tryouts?\",\"answer\":\"They begin as Editorial Board members performing substantiating, Bluebooking citations to the Bluebook style, and editing assigned draft portions. 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