Selecting Journal Candidates: The Purpose and the Process

Abstract

Selecting Journal Candidates is a book chapter in The Scribes Manual for Law Review Editors, edited by Darby Dickerson and Brooke J. Bowman, published by Carolina Academia Press in 2022. In this book chapter, Professor Henricksen describes and critiques the various selection methods journals use to determine eligibility for membership. He also explains how selection criteria can lead to the underrepresentation of BIPOC, women, first-generation, part-time, and evening students on journals. The chapter closes with advice to selection committees on how to address diversity and equity issues while ensuring that the process yields highly qualified candidates.

Keywords: law students, law review, law journal, journal editors, legal writing, law librarians, writing, editing