Summer Candidacy Program
2026 Summer Candidacy Program
The 2026 Chicago-Kent Law Review Summer Candidacy Program has concluded, please refer to our Membership page for more information.
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.
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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