LAW REVIEW BOARD MEMBERS: How are you compensated? Forum

[lawreviewcuts]

I recently accepted a position on my Law Review's Board of Editors. This is at a small school that does not offer academic, merit-based scholarships (like most law schools). A significant benefit to being on the Board is a partial tuition waiver that applies your third and final year. After accepting our positions, our Board was told that the school is phasing out those tuition waivers. As part of this announcement our faculty tried to comfort us by alleging that many other schools do not offer tuition waivers to their law review board members.

We are interested in "fighting" this decision. It would be helpful to find out how other law review board members are compensated for the extra work. How many credits do you receive? Are they "in-class" or "out-of-class" credits? Do you receive a stipend? A tuition waiver? Do you do the extra work solely for the prestige? Which law school do you attend?

Thank you for your help ... It is greatly appreciated.

[Flips88]

We get absolutely nothing.

[A. Nony Mouse]

I got something like $500 or $1000. But only the top 3 positions got this (EIC, EE, ME). I don't think the other board members even knew about it. Board members also got 2 credits/semester.

This was at a lower t1, and we had a dean who'd gone to a t6 who kept telling us how there, people did LR without compensation of any kind, for the honor of it. I think a tuition credit is rare. And I'm pretty sure the $ came out of either LR specific endowments, the funds generated by the LR, or both (as opposed to the school's regular operating budget).

[kalvano]

I recently accepted a position on my Law Review's Board of Editors. This is at a small school that does not offer academic, merit-based scholarships (like most law schools).

What? Most schools offer merit-based financial aid. What kind of shit school is this?

And we got 5 credit hours to apply as we saw fit for being on law review (not just the board). That's it because my school was normal and gave scholarships based on LSAT / GPA.

[UVAIce]

From what I know at UVA we get absolutely no compensation beyond a resume bullet. We also don't receive any credits for being on law review. My understanding is that this is pretty much the norm in the T-14.

[Tiago Splitter]

At Columbia board members of any journal get one credit per semester.

[AspiringAcademic]

At Chicago we get nothing.

[Danger Zone]

We have the privilege of paying for one credit per semester.

[CanadianWolf]

OP: Which law school do you attend ?

[KD35]

All 2L LR members and board members get 2 units/semester, 3Ls get 1 unit/semester.

[CanadianWolf]

Course credit & better job interviews.

[Danger Zone]

better job interviews

[citation needed]

[LeDique]

I got something like $500 or $1000. But only the top 3 positions got this (EIC, EE, ME). I don't think the other board members even knew about it. Board members also got 2 credits/semester.

This was at a lower t1, and we had a dean who'd gone to a t6 who kept telling us how there, people did LR without compensation of any kind, for the honor of it. I think a tuition credit is rare. And I'm pretty sure the $ came out of either LR specific endowments, the funds generated by the LR, or both (as opposed to the school's regular operating budget).

What the…FURIOUSLY gchatting to accuse them of getting this money without telling me

[A. Nony Mouse]

I got something like $500 or $1000. But only the top 3 positions got this (EIC, EE, ME). I don't think the other board members even knew about it. Board members also got 2 credits/semester.

This was at a lower t1, and we had a dean who'd gone to a t6 who kept telling us how there, people did LR without compensation of any kind, for the honor of it. I think a tuition credit is rare. And I'm pretty sure the $ came out of either LR specific endowments, the funds generated by the LR, or both (as opposed to the school's regular operating budget).

What the…FURIOUSLY gchatting to accuse them of getting this money without telling me

Umm... Hypothetically speaking... Uh...

[TTH]

At Ohio State, 2L staff members got two credits for the year. For 3Ls, board members got three credits, and 3L staff members got two credits. We also had a mandatory note we had to do second year.

Also, the school had an overall cap on the number of credits you could earn for something other than law school classes, which encompassed journals, moot court, externships, classes in other grad programs, and maybe also ungraded law school classes.

Money for journal seems pretty cool, even if it's a pittance.

[Flips88]

The annoying thing is that at Northwestern, people that do trial team get credit. But journal: zero credit, no money, have to write a 3-draft note that is a graduation requirement. It's obnoxious.

[sidhesadie]

T2 school. 2 credits per year, to be allocated how they want based on schedule (you can do 1/1 each semester or put both in one semester if it works better). No payment of any kind, unless you count an ample supply of trail mix.

[AspiringAcademic]

T2 school. 2 credits per year, to be allocated how they want based on schedule (you can do 1/1 each semester or put both in one semester if it works better). No payment of any kind, unless you count an ample supply of trail mix.

I demand trail mix!

[bsktbll28082]

Richmond gets 1 credit I believe (same for Moot Court, TAB, etc.)

[koolsk8erboi]

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[Neve]

I recently accepted a position on my Law Review's Board of Editors. This is at a small school that does not offer academic, merit-based scholarships (like most law schools).

What? Most schools offer merit-based financial aid. What kind of shit school is this?

And we got 5 credit hours to apply as we saw fit for being on law review (not just the board). That's it because my school was normal and gave scholarships based on LSAT / GPA.

The second-year flagship law review members at our school do get some kind of stipend/scholarship. I don't know if its given to all second-year editors or just the Executive Board, but I do know that they are compensated (the amounts vary according to what I hear).