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The transfer student Write-On
will take place:
9:00 a.m. Thursday, August 4, 2011 to 9:00
a.m. Monday, August 8, 2011.
NO exceptions to these dates and
times will be made.
Eligibility for participation:
all transfer students are eligible to participate.
- Transfer students are considered for membership in one of
the three law reviews exclusively
by their performance in the write-on competition
Honor Code Rules:
Participants are strictly prohibited from
seeking or receiving any outside assistance with the
write-on competition. This includes but is not limited
to:
- Current law review members
- Faculty members
- Other write-on participants
- Attorneys
- Other law students
- Work that participants have done in the past
- Writing section: sources not included in the closed
writing section
- Citations: anything outside the Bluebook, Greenbook,
legal or English dictionary, or "Edited Marks" handout.
Participants will be required to sign an honor pledge
stating that you neither gave nor received any
assistance with the write-on competition.
- Participants who do not sign the pledge will be
disqualified from the competition.
- Participants who receive outside assistance in any form
will be disqualified from the competition.
Write-On Packet:
Getting It And Turning It In
GETTING
IT
Download the
packet from the website (and print it off) here 2011 Problem Packet
TURNING IT IN
There are three ways to submit your entry: (1) If
you are in Dallas, return hardcopies and a disk
of your problem packet to Donnaise Baldwin (or slide under her
door if during non-business hours) in Room 4
on the bottom floor of Storey Hall. Entries must be
received by 9:00 a.m. CDT, Monday, August 8, 2011.
- The disk should contain
everything you turned in through hardcopy -
the entire problem packet (which includes
the Editing, Bluebooking, and Writing
sections).
- The disk should NOT have
anything written on it. Absolutely
nothing. No name, no SMU ID number, no
description of its contents. Nothing.
(2) You may send
hardcopies and a disk
of your problem packet via "regular
mail." Your entry MUST be over-nighted
and marked for AM delivery for Monday,
August 8, 2011.
- Physical Address:
SMU Law Review
Attn: Donnaise Baldwin
3315 Daniel, Room 4
Dallas, TX 75205
- The disk should contain
everything you turned in through hardcopy -
the entire problem packet (which includes
the Editing, Bluebooking, and Writing
sections).
- The disk should NOT have
anything written on it. Absolutely
nothing. No name, no SMU ID number, no
description of its contents. Nothing.
(3) You may
e-mail your entry to Donnaise
Baldwin at
dbaldwin@smu.edu. Your email
submission must be RECEIVED by 9:00 a.m.
CDT, Monday, August 8, 2011. We will
NOT look at the time it was sent.
- If you are e-mailing your submission, you do NOT need to
include a disk (obviously).
- If you submit your entry through e-mail, you may attach the
problem packet as a whole, and then attach the scanned
Editing Exercise separately. Alternatively, you may attach
the problem packet, and attach in three separate documents
the Bluebooking Exercise, the Writing Exercise, and the
scanned Editing Exercise.
- Regardless of how you include your attachments in your
e-mail submission, do NOT put your name or SMU ID number
anywhere on your submission except on the ONE page
designated for you to do so in the problem packet.
This includes NOT naming your attachments with any
identifying information (like your name or SMU ID number).
- However, you will need to put your name somewhere in the
BODY of the email so that we know who the email is from.
NOTE: Choose ONE method of submitting your write-on entry
and ONLY one. For example, if you are e-mailing your
submission to Donnaise Baldwin, do NOT additionally turn in a hardcopy
and a disk.
Information Meeting Documents
If you missed the Write-On
Information Meeting, the following are the documents
that were distributed:
Candidate Information Form
- There will be a Candidate Information Form included in the
2011 Problem Packet.
- Include your name and SMU ID number on the Candidate
Information Form ONLY.
- Do NOT place your name, Student ID number, or any other
identifying mark on any other page of your entry, or you
will be automatically disqualified from the write-on
competition.
- You must also include a valid phone number in order to
receive and accept offers from the three journals.
Questions
- Direct all questions to Danielle Olsen at
ldolson@smu.edu.
- For more information see:
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