Dear First-Year Student:
The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law is the only legal journal at Georgetown and one of the only journals in the world to explicitly address the intersection of gender, sexuality, and race with both the theory and practice of law. To accomplish its mission, the Journal publishes traditional scholarly articles and notes targeted at legal scholars and theorists, as well as an Annual Review issue that is designed to appeal to legal practitioners and judges.
Our Publications:
The Journal publishes three issues per year. Each issue serves a distinct role in the Journal's mission.
The Journal annually hosts a Gender, Sexuality and the Law Symposium that brings together academics, scholars, practitioners, students, advocates, and activists from across the nation. Past symposia have addressed cutting-edge issues including: the legal and social effects of Lawrence v. Texas on the 2-year anniversary of oral arguments; labor and employment issues faced by Wal-Mart employees; state accountability for domestic violence and hate crimes; the broadening conception of family as it applies to assisted reproductive technologies, same-sex couples, and kinship relationships; and women, gays and lesbians in the military. Designed to continue the Symposium’s discussion between scholars, practitioners, and students, the Journal’s Symposium Issue publishes the papers and transcripts presented at the annual forum.
The student-authored Annual Review of Gender and the Law is the nation’s only comprehensive guide to legal issues relating to gender and sexuality. The Annual Review serves as an indispensable tool for practitioners, judges, advocacy organizations, and scholars; its purpose is to inform readers of the existing law, as well as to highlight recent changes. Each first-year member will be responsible for editing and updating a piece on a topic within one of the Annual Review chapters, which include Constitutional Law, Family Law, Education Law, Criminal Law, Employment Law and Healthcare Law. To this end, the Journal of Gender and the Law is one of the only publications at Georgetown to guarantee its members the opportunity to publish a legal article in their second year of law school.
The general issue is a collection of writings by scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and students that explores contemporary legal issues relating to gender, sexuality, and race.
Our Commitment:
The Journal is committed to helping individual members refine their legal skills through rigorous research, writing and editing projects. We have developed a program to facilitate a smooth transition into journal membership and assist first-year journal members in developing their skills. First-year journal members will benefit from writing workshops and mentorship opportunities with faculty members, upper level editors, and third-year staff members.
On the Journal of Gender and the Law, first-year staff members do much more than simply edit, cite-check, and verify sources in articles. Our staff members substantially revise and update AnnualReview articles during the fall semester and begin work on original student notes during the spring semester. In addition to guaranteeing journal members the opportunity to publish an Annual Review piece, we also make an effort to publish as many original student notes as possible.
The Journal seeks to maintain a diverse staff that shares the Journal's vision and desires to participate in the Journal's rigorous academic program. At the conclusion of the Write-On Competition, each applicant will receive a score based on his or her performance on the write-on competition (50%), grades (25%), and a required personal statement (25%).
We believe that the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law is one of the most exciting opportunities at the Law Center, and we encourage you to join our dynamic, committed, and fun staff.
Sincerely,
Alan K. Tannenwald
Editor in-Chief
Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law
akt7 @ law.georgetown.edu
