Summer Candidacy Program
2021 Summer Candidacy Program
The 2021 Chicago-Kent Law Review Summer Candidacy Program will run from late May to early June 2021. Please contact Executive Notes & Comments Editor Elizabeth Jedrasek with any questions.
The instructions, prompt, and source packet* for the 2021 Summer Candidacy Program are available here.
*Please note, the prompt and source packet will be uploaded on Sunday, May 23 at 10am
Good luck!
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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).
- Notes written by past staff members and published in the Chicago-Kent Law Review.
- Chicago-Kent Law Library Bluebook Guide.
- Lexis Advance Interactive Citation Workstation.
- From the Lexis Advance homepage, select the grid icon in the upper left and select “LexisNexis 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).
- Eugene Volokh, Writing a Student Article, 48 J. Legal Educ. 247 (1998).
- 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).
- Ross Guberman, 25 Ways to Write Like John Roberts (2017).
- Ross Guberman, Five Ways to Write Like Justice Kagan (2018).
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.
- 2020 Write-On Sample
- 2016 Write-On Sample
- 2017 Write-On Sample
- 2019 Write-On Samples