St. John's Law Review

Membership Overview

The St. Johns’s Law Review selects its members with the goal of obtaining a staff of hardworking, diverse law students with strong analytic and writing skills committed to advancing the publication legacy and goals of the Law Review, the Journal of Catholic Legal Studies, and the Commentary. Invitations to become a Staff Member on the Law Review are made only to students of St. John’s University School of Law who have completed the full first-year curriculum, expect to attend St. John’s for at least two more academic years, and have not applied to the Law Review in the past.

Membership Criteria

Membership on the Law Review is based on a combination of cumulative grade point average and successful completion of the St. John’s annual writing competition, conducted in the spring of the 1L year. The writing competition involves writing and submitting a case comment on an assigned topic within a seven-day time period. The Law Review also accepts applications from students transferring into St. John’s, provided that they meet the eligibility requirements. Information regarding meetings, the writing competition, and applications becomes available in April each year. Those students who are selected to join the Law Review are expected to begin work as Staff Members in the July before 2L year begins. Furthermore, the Law Review is a year-round organization, which operates during school breaks and holidays.

Staff Member Responsibilities

Staff Member duties include involvement in the editorial process, in which articles selected for publication are researched and edited to ensure their technical and substantive integrity, as well as the completion of a scholarly student note, case comment, or recent development. A Notes and Comments Editor guides each Staff Member through the note writing process to ensure that the student-written materials published by the Law Review are of the highest quality. All Law Review members are also active in other aspects of the Law School community, including working with the Office of Admissions and the Visiting Jurist Program.

Editorial Board

After one year of Law Review membership, Staff Members are eligible for election to the Editorial Board. The members of the Editorial Board are responsible for different aspects of the publication process and management of the Law Review staff. Additionally, students serving on the Editorial Board have the opportunity to earn academic credit.

How to Subscribe

The St. John’s Law Review is published four times a year. Subscriptions are $30.00 per year, and special issues are $12.00 each. Unless notice to the contrary is received at the Editorial Office, each subscription will be renewed automatically.

If you are interested in subscribing to the Law Review or for copies of the New York Rules of Citation (6th ed.), please contact:

Associate Managing Editor, St. John’s Law Review
St. John's University School of Law
[email protected]

How to Access Back Issues

For back issues of the Law Review, please contact the William S. Hein and Company, Inc., 2350 North Forest Rd., Getzville, New York 14068, (800) 828-7571.

Back issues of the Law Review are also available online at the St. John's Law Scholarship Repository and at HeinOnline.

Submission Guidelines

Thank you for your interest in publishing in the St. John's Law Review. We accept articles, essays, and reviews in all areas of the law on an ongoing basis. Submissions should meet the following guidelines:

• Please submit a double-spaced copy of your article in Microsoft Word format
• Articles should conform to the current edition of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
• Articles should be accompanied by a cover letter with your preferred method of contact and a CV

Electronic Submissions

We strongly encourage you to submit electronically. Electronic submissions may be made via Scholastica. Alternatively, submissions may be emailed to [email protected].

Submissions by Mail

Submissions may also be made in hard copy. Please do not submit your article by mail if you have also submitted the article electronically.

Send all Articles and correspondence to:
Senior Articles Editor
St. John’s Law Review
St. John’s University School of Law, Room 3-40
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, NY 11439

Expedited Review

Requests for expedited review should be sent directly to [email protected]. In the body of your e-mail, please include the following information:

• Your name
• The title of your article
• The name of the journal that has extended an offer to you
• The date the offer expires

We look forward to receiving your submission!