All first-year students with a minimum GPA of 2.2 and who have successfully completed LW&R and Moot Court or Legal Analysis, are eligible to participate on the Hastings journals. First-year students who wish to participate on a journal during their second year are required to enter the Inter-Journal Writing Competition, which begins this school year on the first day after the last scheduled exam, Friday, May 16, 2008, and ends on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 5 p.m. Entries must be postmarked or hand-delivered by the 5 p.m. deadline.

The Inter-Journal Writing Competition packet will be available for download from the Scholarly Publications website at 9 a.m. May 16, 2008. A paper copy of the Inter-Journal Writing Competition packet will be available at 9 a.m. on May 18 at the Scholarly Publications department office, 100 McAllister Street, room 2304.

For more information, contact Tom McCarthy, Manager, Scholarly Publications, 415.581.8952, or email Tom.

Do not contact the journals directly. Any entrant who does will be disqualified.

Link to the student-edited journals and read their general statements:

Hastings Business Law Journal

Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal (Comm/Ent)

Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly

Hastings International and Comparative Law Review

Hastings Law Journal

Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal

Hastings West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy

Hastings Women's Law Journal

Follow these links for more information:

Inter-Journal Writing Competition

Honor Code for Competition participants

Academic credit for journal participation and regulations on withdrawal from a journal

Transfer Student Writing Competition Rules and Results