Join Environmental Law
Approximately 30 students join the staff of Environmental Law each year. Any law student with at least a 2.3 GPA who is entering their 2L or 3L Day or Evening academic year is welcome to join our staff. This includes students transferring from other law schools.
There are two different ways to join Environmental Law. One way is through the "grade-on." After the Registrar issues rankings, which usually occurs sometime in mid-Summer, Environmental Law will send a letter to students with GPAs in the top 10-20% via U.S. Post, offering them a position on our law review. The exact percentage of students that will receive offers based on their class rank will range from year to year, depending on our staffing needs and the size of the eligible class.
The other way to join Environmental Law is through the "write-on," which is a writing competition held at the end of the Spring semester. The applicant's GPA is not at all considered in this writing competition.
For detailed instructions about participating in the writing competition,
please click here. Please note that the writing competition submissions are due before the Registrar will issue rankings, so if you are interested in joining Environmental Law, you may want to participate in the write-on unless you are absolutely sure you will be able to join through the grade-on.
Unique to the three law reviews at Lewis and Clark, Environmental Law publishes summaries of all the environmental law cases that are decided by the Ninth Circuit. These summaries are written by a select group of five Environmental Law members, who are chosen from the submissions to the write-on competition.
For more information about Environmental Law and how to join a law review at Lewis and Clark, please listen to this Podcast of a recent information session. Additionally, for further information, please feel welcome to email Environmental Law's new Editor in Chief Jared Ogdon.
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