Join the General Board of CR-CL

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The Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review is now accepting applications for the Volume 48 General Board.  General Board members shape each issue of CR-CL in important ways, participating in all article selection decisions and contributing to all aspects of the editing process.

CR-CL has published some of the most innovative and provocative legal scholarship of the last fifty years. Within our journal, there is constant debate as to what civil rights and civil liberties are, and more importantly, what they should be. We hope that you will join the General Board to advance that discussion, bringing your creativity and opinions to each and every General Board meeting. In order to get to know you better, we ask that you complete a brief essay describing a progressive legal issue that interests you. Your essay may take one of two forms:

  1. In each volume of CR-CL, we publish a piece of solicited content, in which we ask legal academics, practitioners, and others to write pieces about a timely and emerging legal issue. What topic would you to see published in the pages of CR-CL? In 500 words, please describe a legal issue that interests you. Your essay should take the form of a proposal for a specific article, sketching out in broad strokes a potential argument an author might make. You may find it useful to see examples of recently published articles, which are available at http://harvardcrcl.org/archive/.
  1. In addition to our print journal, CR-CL maintains a blog, where journal members discuss recent legal developments. Please think of a development (a recent Supreme Court case, a new piece of legislation, a topical news story), and in 500 words, summarize the development and provide unique analysis. If you select a case, do you agree with the decision? If not, why? Is your agreement or disagreement with the outcome based on your legal analysis or on your policy preferences? It might be helpful to read a recent blog post, which can be found at http://harvardcrcl.org. To generate ideas for a post, helpful sites include: http://scotusblog.com, http://www.nytimes.com, and http://www.brennancenter.org.

Please submit a copy of your resume and ONE of the completed essays via email to eics.crcl.vol.48@gmail.com by January 19, 2012. You need only complete ONE of the two essays as part of the application. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by January 20, 2012.

Please note that there is a mandatory orientation for all new General Board members on January 21, 2012.  Additionally, all new members are required to attend a brief, lunchtime presentation by Professor Glenn Cohen on January 24, 2012 from 12:00-1:00 pm in Austin West.

We look forward to working with you to produce Volume 48 of CRCL!