Membership in the Yale Law & Policy Review
Membership in the Yale Law & Policy Review is available to all J.D. and LL.M. students at the Yale Law School, although students are only eligible to receive course credit after the fall term of the first year. Yale Law School students who are interested in becoming members of YLPR may join at the beginning of each semester and will receive masthead credit as editors provided they meet the membership requirements during the course of that semester. Members are strongly encouraged to attend weekly meetings and are required to participate in one edit team during the course of a semester. New editors are also required to attend a Bluebook training session. Additional tasks are required of members of the YLPR Board.
Weekly Meetings
Members of YLPR are expected to prepare for and attend weekly meetings, during which the manuscript submissions selected by the Submissions Editors are discussed and voted on. Active, democratic participation in the manuscript-selection process by the entire membership is one of the hallmarks of the YLPR experience. All members are expected to read the weekly submission before attending the meeting. Copies of the weekly submissions are distributed by the Editor-in-Chief and posted to SharePoint. Members who cannot attend a meeting are asked to e-mail their comments on the submission and their vote to the Editor-in-Chief before the meeting so that their votes can be counted. Articles are selected by majority vote of all members.Edit Teams
Each YLPR editor and senior editor participates in one edit team per semester. As an edit team member, each editor completes a bookpull and participates in a sourcecite. Bookpulls involve locating the sources cited in an article and collecting them in the library for the sourcecite. Bookpull assignments are created by the Lead Editor of each edit team. Editors should begin their bookpulls at least two weeks in advance of the sourcecite to allow sufficient time for the transportation of the necessary sources from outside libraries in those instances when the YLS library does not have the source. An editor should notify her Content Editor of any sources she is unable to find as soon as possible. After all the books and other sources have been "pulled," the entire edit team will meet with YLPR Board members and converge at a "sourcecite" where they will check the formatting and substance of the article or note's citations.Bluebook Training
YLPR strongly encourages all members to attend at least one Bluebook training session. Sessions are offered once every semester in order to orient new editors to the Bluebook in advance of sourceciting.