Law Review Staff

The New England Law Review staff consists of Editors and Associate members.

EDITORS - Editors are second-year members of the New England Law Review. There are several different types of editors. The Editor-in-Chief, Managing Editor, and Business Managing Editor are elected positions; these editors form the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee appoints the remaining editors. The various types of editors and a brief description of each are listed below:

• Executive Articles Editors - These editors work with the Editor-in-Chief on outside articles. Outside articles consist of articles written by law school graduates that are experts in their fields, including professors, judges, clerks, and practitioners. Articles Editors select outside articles, guide and edit them through the editing process, and communicate with the authors.
• Comment & Note Editors - C & N Editors are primarily responsible for articles written by associate members. Each C&N Editor is assigned approximately three or four associate members in order to allow the editor to work closely with each associate member. C&N Editors aid associate members through the drafting process and evaluate the articles. When student article boards are created to assess the individual articles for "publishable quality" (the standard of quality needed to satisfy the writing requirement), C&N Editors present papers from their groups to the boards.
• Executive Comment & Notes Editors - EC & N Editors roles are two-fold: they are required to act as secondary editors to the associate members; they also administrate the C&N Editors to ensure the a high quality of writing, review, and evaluation. During the process of determining "publishable quality", they act as chairpersons of the student article boards.
• Executive Literary Editors - SLEs work with the Managing Editor on student articles being published in the current volume of the New England Law Review. Their duties are similar to those of the Articles Editors, but are concentrated on comments and notes.
• Symposium Editors - Symposium Editors work with the Business Managing Editor to develop and host an annual symposium on a current legal topic. The annual symposium is usually held in the fall semester; following the symposium, these editors work on the articles and transcriptions arising from the annual symposium in the same way as the Articles Editors and SLEs.
• Technical Editors - These editors, affectionately known as "tech editors", oversee perhaps the most important step in the editing process: guaranteeing technical accuracy. Tech Editors check, confirm, and revise the weekly cite check assignments submitted by the associate members. These tech checks are an in-depth investigation of the footnotes of an article, a process to correct any mistakes, and a first-attempt to revise the paper for issues, including grammar and punctuation.

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS - Associate members are first year members of the law review. They play a crucial role in the production process by completing cite checking and proofreading assignments. Associate members also write a comment or a note for consideration for publication in the next volume of the law review. Students gain membership to the New England Law Review by competing in the Summer Writing Competition. For more information on membership, click here.