The Rutgers Law Review is a quarterly scholarly journal

Academic journal

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 focusing on legal issues, published by an organization of second and third year law students

Legal education in the United States

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 at Rutgers School of Law. It is the flagship law review

Law review

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 among the five accredited law journals at Rutgers School of Law. Among its notable alumni are Ronald Chen

Ronald Chen

Ronald Chen was, until January 2010, the New Jersey Public Advocate. He was nominated to fill the position on January 5, 2006, by Governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine. He was the first Public Advocate to serve in the post since 1994, when the job was abolished by former Governor Christine Todd Whitman...

, Public Advocate for the State of New Jersey

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, and Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren is an American bankruptcy expert, policy advocate, Harvard Law School professor, and Democratic Party candidate in the 2012 United States Senate election in Massachusetts. She has written several academic and popular books concerning the American economy and personal finance. She...

, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School

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 and chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the U.S. banking bailout, formally known as the Troubled Assets Relief Program

Troubled Assets Relief Program

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Selection

Each year, the Rutgers Law Review holds a write-on competition to select approximately 25 new members from a class of over 250 first year law students. Members are selected using a competitive process which takes into account the applicant's first-year grades and performance on the write-on competition. The write-on competition requires students to produce a high quality case comment using a packet of approximately two to three hundred pages of materials related to the case. The candidates must complete all the requirements of the competition within 7 days.<