Interested in Getting Involved with the Law Review?

Join as an assistant or volunteer!

To apply, please indicate what position(s) you are interested in (Assistant Editor, Assistant TSL Editor, and Assistant Business Manager) and drop off a cover letter and resume at the Law Review Office (Room 175) or email it to us at lawrev@interchange.ubc.ca. We typically have around 40 assistants a year, mostly consisting of first year students, so there are many positions available.

The deadline for assistant applications is Monday, September 24th at 5 pm. Please include a resume and cover letter. You are welcome to apply for more than one position, but please list an order of preference.

For more information on why to get involved read below:

There are many reasons to work as an Assistant Editor or Assistant TSL Editor, including:

*Excellent opportunity to practice perfecting legal citations (comes in handy when writing your memos and factums);
*While the majority of law school work emphasizes how quickly one can analyse something (i.e. exam work), editorial work emphasizes great attention to detail, which is also important in legal practice;
*Gives students an opportunity to become more familiar with a wide variety of legal writing;
*If you ever want to work in the U.S., then it’s a good idea to work on an academic legal journal, as it is considered a very prestigious honour in the U.S. Canadian lawyers and firms also value having students who have worked on an academic journal, as it demonstrates they have an eye for detail and appreciate the importance of high-quality writing.

Here are just a few of the reasons to work as an Assistant Business Manager:

*Terrific opportunity to play an important role in managing a Society and use skills that you may have from past education or work experience;
*Sharpen your business and accounting skills, which is an asset to those who hope to work for a small firm or sole practitioner, or for those who eventually want to run their own business;
*Gain exposure to the government grant process, event planning (of our annual Speaker Series and other events), and the inner-workings of an entirely student-run non-profit organization.

Assisting or volunteering with the UBC Law Review is great, generally, for meeting students in other years, looks great on a resume, and will help you sharpen skills that you may not learn or focus on in the classroom, but that will be beneficial when interviewing and working in the legal profession.

Assistants are also eligible to apply for Board positions the following year. Each Board member receives two credits (Law 486 Law Review) that will count towards the upper year’s Legal Research and Writing requirement.
If you want to learn more – please look for us at the events listed above under ‘Dates to Remember’, stop by our office (Room 175), or send us an e-mail at lawrev@interchange.ubc.ca. If you want to direct your questions to anyone in particular, here are the 2007/08 UBC Law Review board members’ titles and names:

¨ Editor-in-Chief: Annie Chen
¨ Articles Editors: Anthony Seepish & Marega Medlicott
¨ Case Comments & Book Review Editor: Krista Johanson
¨ Recent Legislation & Law Reform Editor: Shane Hopkins-Utter
¨ Production Editor: Troy McLelan
¨ Business Manager: Eric Heath
¨ Secretary/Treasurer: Laura Hodgins
¨ Special Projects Coordinator: Sarah Ng
¨ TSL Editor: Kerri-Ann Reid

We hope to see you at all of our events this September, and we look forward to working with you this year!