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Law Review Writing Competition Experienced by First-Year Students

The article will present the description of law review writing competition of 2009 held by Cornell Law School for the first year students. It is necessary to stress that the participation in the competition was aimed at inviting transfer students.

According to the law review writing competition, students had ten days to finish it. Law review writing competition stressed that participants could start any day between their coming to Cornell law school and the beginning of fall classes.

Law review writing competition provided general information about the event. It should be noted that in accordance with the fact presented in law review writing competition, it was comprised of two stages:

• Writing Component;
• Editing Component;

Law review writing competition was presented in the closed form, so the participants had no opportunities to stick to any outside sources for their papers completion. In law review writing competition, the basic component was presented in the form of a ‘note’ based on the research packet data, which consists of such sources as statutes, cases and articles. It is necessary to stress that the law review writing competition had no any prompts allowing the participants to avoid problems.

As to the editing component of law review writing competition, it was presented in the form of text sample having numerous grammatical and writing mistakes. The correction of mistakes in law review writing competition should be made in accordance with the rules of Texas Manual of Style and Usage and the Bluebook.

This academic event tested in Cornell Law School in 2009 demonstrated the basic knowledge and flexibility of students’ thoughts. It is necessary to underline the fact that the committee came to the conclusion that this experience is a good start to the development of regional competition level attracting more and more students.