Summer Candidacy Program
2026 Summer Candidacy Program
The 2026 Chicago-Kent Law Review Summer Candidacy Program (SCP) will run from Saturday, May 16, 2026, through Wednesday, May 27, 2026. All SCP submissions are due May 27, 2026, at 11:59 pm CST.
The SCP Research Materials will be made available here at 9:00 am CST on May 16, 2026.
The instructions for the 2026 Summer Candidacy Program can be found at Instructions Doc – 2026 Summer Candidacy Program.docx. To access the SCP Packet, please log into OneDrive using your Kent email.
In order to participate in the SCP, you must request a Candidate Exam Number by emailing cklrsummercandidacyprogram@gmail.com. The deadline to request a Candidate Exam Number is Sunday, May 17, 2026, at 11:59 pm. To obtain your exam number, email cklrsummercandidacyprogram@gmail.com with the subject line “SCP Exam Number Request.” In your email, please include your full name, phone number, class year, and whether you are in the full time day or part-time/evening divisions.
Starting Saturday, May 16th you may not contact any law review member except the designated contact people:
- Daniel Lynch at dlynch6@hawk.illinoistech.edu
- Myah Bawadi at mbawadi@hawk.illinoistech.edu
- Katie Bassett at mbassett@hawk.illinoistech.edu
They will be available to help you with questions about the write-on process but will NOT be available to answer any question related to the substantive issues in the SCP Packet.
For more information about the write-on process and Law Review, please refer to the 2026 Law Review Write-On Info Session or watch the recording here: Info Session Recording.
In case you missed our Bluebooking Workshop, please refer to the Bluebook 101 Workshop PowerPoint or watch the recording here: Bluebooking Workshop Recording.
Summer Candidacy FAQs
Reference Materials
We recommend that interested applicants consult the below reference material in preparation for their write-on. While not required, these sources will help improve your submission.
- Suzanne Ehrenberg, How to Write a Case Comment (Jun. 2003).
- Published Student Notes in the Chicago-Kent Law Review.
- How to Outline a Note
- Lexis Advance Interactive Citation Workstation.
- From the Lexis homepage, select the grid icon in the upper left and select “Interactive Citation Workstation.”
- Ross Guberman, Point Made: How to Write Like the Nation’s Top Advocates (2d ed. 2014).
- Eugene Volokh, Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review (5th ed. 2016).
- Ross Guberman, A Dozen Words and Phrases to Doubt, Mich. B. J., Jul. 2017, at 50.
- Ross Guberman, Five Ways to Write Like John Roberts (2010).
Successful Past Submissions
You can find successful write-on submissions from previous years below. While not error-free, they represent strong and highly graded submissions. They should be used as guides, but should not determine the form, structure, or style of your final product.
- 2025 Write-On Samples
- 2024 Write-On Samples
- 2020 Write-On Sample
- 2019 Write-On Samples
- 2017 Write-On Sample
- 2016 Write-On Sample