Summer Candidacy Program
2025 Summer Candidacy Program
The 2025 Chicago-Kent Law Review Summer Candidacy Program (SCP) will run from Saturday, May 17, 2025, through Wednesday, May 28, 2025. On May 17, 2025, the SCP packet will be posted to the website at 9:00 am. All SCP submissions are due May 28, 2025, at 11:59 pm CST.
Please see the Summer Candidacy Program Offical Instructions here.
In order to participate in the SCP, you must request a Candidate Exam Number from Alex Magalli by emailing him at a.magalli@gmail.com. The deadline to request a Candidate Exam Number is Sunday, May 18, 2025, at 11:59 pm. To obtain your exam number, email Alex Magalli at a.magalli@gmail.com with the subject line “SCP Exam Number Request.” You may contact him any time before Sunday, May 18, 2025, at 11:59 PM CST for an exam number. In your email to Alex, 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 17th you may not contact any law review member except the designated contact people:
– Cody Clark (cclark23@kentlaw.iit.edu)
– Nicole Hentges (nhentges@kentlaw.iit.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 2025 Law Review Write-On Info Session.
In case you missed our Bluebooking Workshop, please refer to the Bluebook 101 Workshop Recording and the PowerPoint.
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.
- 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.
- 2024 Write-On Samples
- 2020 Write-On Sample
- 2019 Write-On Samples
- 2017 Write-On Sample
- 2016 Write-On Sample