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MEMBERSHIP
The Berkeley La Raza Law Journal invites you to join!
In the years
following the passage and implementation of Proposition 209, recorded at
Cal. Const. Art. 1, § 31, (outlawing state-sponsored race conscious
affirmative action), the number of Latina/o law students at Boalt Hall
significantly declined. Recognizing the disparate impact of this
"colorblind" policy on Latinas/os and other students of color,
the members of the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal resolved to ensure the Journal's survival.
Thankfully,
the dedication of our members has permitted the Journal to transcend mere survival: the knowledge produced by the BLRLJ
contributes to the forging of
one of the cutting edges of contemporary jurisprudence.
Duties and Benefits of Membership
As a member,
you will have many opportunities to shape the direction of the Journal.
Early in the semester, you will choose which of the editorial board
teams (described below) to join.
Your choice will determine what aspect of our collective work you
will engage and thereby the skills in which you will develop proficiency.
Whether it's
soliciting articles, reviewing submissions, editing a manuscript,
collecting sources, or checking citations, or planning and enacting a
colloquium, symposium, or other event—your work with the BLRLJ will transform your legal education. By
working with other dedicated Latina/o law students and our allies, you will
learn much about the production of jurisprudence and the management of an
organization that is dedicated to using law to effect social justice in the
United States and beyond.
Beyond those
goals, however, by engaging the work of the Journal you will contribute to
the creation of beloved community -- forming life-long friendships con tus compañeras/os de la
lucha. The work is significant;
the achievement of our projects, profound.
Hours Required for Masthead Credit
To be
included in an issue's masthead, members must devote 15 hours per semester
to Journal work. By
conducting 25 hours of Journal
work in a semester, a member may earn the title of Associate Editor. Second
and third-year students may apply to earn up to two (2) units of academic
credit for Journal work:
contributing sixty hours of Journal work in a semester earns one (1) unit of academic credit.
If you have
any questions, please visit 585 Simon Hall, call us at (510) 642-9351, or
email larazajournal@law.berkeley.edu!
EDITORIAL BOARD
TEAMS
Work is
conducted in teams based on the Journal’s editorial board positions.
SOLICITATIONS
& PUBLICITY are the purview of the Executive Editors. Members who join this team solicit
submissions, help increase our subscriptions and publicize the Journal.
- Members identify
and contact law professors, lawyers, law students and other potential
contributors to encourage them to submit articles, essays, comments,
and case notes that analyze issues relevant to the Latina/o community;
and
- Members increase
circulation by raising awareness of our Journal through our presence on the World Wide Web
and at legal conferences, and by the distribution of promotional
brochures.
SUBMISSIONS
REVIEW is the duty of the Productions Editor-in-Chief and the Articles
Editors. However, the Submissions Committee is open to the general
membership, which is informed of opportunities to review submissions on an
as-needed basis and provides members with the standing to influence the legal
scholarship published by the Journal.
- Members review
submissions, record their evaluations in a standard form, and provide
additional written comments; and
- Members then
discuss the merits of the submission and advocate whether to accept,
reject, or indicate an author should conduct additional work before
resubmitting the manuscript.
ARTICLES
EDITORS lead small teams of members whose labor produces the heart of the Journal -- our regularly published volumes.
- Members read
manuscripts and conduct macro-level edits;
- Members then
collect sources that the author cited;
- Members check the
author's citations to ensure that assertions and conclusions are well
supported;
- Members conduct
micro-level edits to aspire for grammatical perfection; and
- Members review
citations to ensure compliance with the latest edition of the Blue
Book.
OFFICE
MANAGEMENT is the purview of the Administrative Editor-in-Chief and the Managing
Editors, whose team of members write grants, takes minutes, review our
finances, and maintain good records.
- Members apply for
funds from the Boalt Hall Students Association and write grants to the
Graduate Assembly;
- Members record
and file minutes of general and editorial board meetings;
- Members update
our financial records, prepare annual fiscal reports, and the annual
budget; and
- Members work with
other teams to ensure that their projects are adequately funded.
SYMPOSIA,
COLLOQUIA, and the SPEAKER SERIES are imagined, planned, and enacted by
members of the Symposium Editors team.
- Members imagine
timely subjects upon which to direct organized scholarly inquiry;
- Members prepare
and deliver proposals so that the general membership may determine
collectively which subjects to pursue;
- Members identify
and contact keynote speakers, panelists, and others who will make
presentations;
- Members work with
the Managing Editors team to fundraise, draft grant proposals, arrange
for speakers' travel, contract with food and other vendors, and set up
decorations, technical sound and video equipment and other same-day
details;
- Members collaborate
with the Executive Editors team to ensure that keynote speakers and
panelists are solicited so that a written version of their
presentations will be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal;
- Members also
collaborate with the Productions Editors team to design and create
invitations, posters and programs; and
- Members draft and
revise press releases and conduct other media outreach.
PRODUCTIONS
EDITORS organize members to oversee the technical production of Journal issues.
- Members work with
the Productions Editor-in-Chief and Productions Editors in the
aspiration to achieve perfect publications; and
- Members collaborate
with the Symposium Editors team to produce invitations, posters and
programs.
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