For anyone that heard (or did not hear), I was selected for the Missouri Law Review this summer after I entered the writing competition. Since most people don't actually know what that means, I put a selected part of the Wikipedia article on law review below to explain the "prestige" of being on Missouri's main journal, haha. Mainly, it just means that I'll be working my butt off the entire year writing notes and comments in an attempt to get published :)
In other news, I'm back in Columbia now (yay!!!!) and we got our marriage license today (wooo!).
"The primary function of a law review is to provide a vehicle for academic publishing in the field of law...Many law reviews also publish articles written by law students, normally called "notes" and "comments." Law review articles serve an important purpose in that they express the ideas of legal experts with regard to the direction the law should take in certain areas. Such writings have proven influential in the development of the law, and have frequently been cited as persuasive authority by the United States Supreme Court and other courts throughout the United States. However, this influence may have been diminishing over recent decades.
Law reviews also provide necessary background research to legal practitioners. Student-written articles in particular, which may not be able to influence judicial opinions to the same extent as professionally written articles, add to the legal discourse primarily by providing concise and well-researched background material on distinct legal issues or particularly important cases.
Almost every major American law school publishes a law review. Generally, each school's law review, also referred to as the "main" or "flagship journal", publishes articles dealing with all areas of law."
-Bri
