Our new Journal of Free Speech Law is faculty-edited, but we’d love to have help from students with proofreading and bluebooking. (We may also need some help with cite-checking, though so far we’re having faculty have their own research assistants do that.) We publish both electronically and in print, and our first articles should be out in late July.
If you’d like to join our existing team of Production Editors (this is the title we give, on our site and in our print issues), please e-mail me at volokh@law.ucla.edu. In particular, we’ll need several people who can work on our symposium articles over the next several weeks.
As you might gather from the job description, one thing we need is attention to detail. If your mind just absorbs information from written text, and doesn’t bother you by alerting you to typos, then this will be a frustrating task for you. On the other hand, if errors just jump off the page at you as you read, you’d be perfect.
I realize that this is not like a normal law review: It will likely involve both less work and less responsibility. On the other hand, you’ll get to read what we hope will be very interesting scholarship, participate in the process of publishing it (plus see your name in print on the masthead), and further practice your proofreading skills.
Just to be clear, as with other law reviews, we’re looking for volunteers, though we hope that the students who participate will find this professionally valuable.
