Selection Criteria
Membership in the Seton Hall
Legislative Journal is limited to second and third year
law students who are selected on the basis of their
performance on an annual writing competition coupled
with their GPA. Seton Hall Law School
students who are interested in joining the Legislative
Journal must participate in the write-on competition at
the end of their 1L year.
All members are selected based on a combination of their
grades and their write-on competition scores.
The competition requires students to describe and
analyze a recent U.S. Supreme Court or Court of Appeals
decision. The current members and editors grade each
submission focusing on the author’s style, substance,
citations, conclusion, and spelling grammar and
punctuation.
In recent years, the number of students who complete the
competition has ranged from 100 to 175. Of these,
between 15 and 30 students will be asked to join the
Legislative Journal. Students involved in the
competition will be notified of the results in late
July. Those students who are selected to join the
Legislative Journal must return to the law school
towards the end of the summer for orientation.