Greetings, and welcome to the Cornell Law School Journal of Law and Public Policy Blog. We’re very excited to be the first student-run law blog at Cornell, and with it we hope to help bring our law journal into the 21st century. Thanks for taking the time to visit!
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We hope that our blog will bring a larger audience to the print version of our journal, as well as foster a community where the scholarship published in our print version can be discussed. Additionally, the blog aims to allow students, scholars, and policy makers to write with a more creative, innovative, and casual tone, and to provide a forum for non-traditional members of the Journal and Cornell Law School to blog about law and policy issues important to them. The traditional published Student Note can be a daunting proposition for the hurried reader, so with the blog, we are attempting to produce quick posts that are accessible and hopefully initiate discussion and reader interaction.
Although the JLPP Blog began in September 2010, it was just a side project with sporadic posts extracted from Student Notes. It was not until this year, 2011, when our Senior Note Editor, Sarah Hack, Internet Editor, Charlie Lopresto, and Editor-in-Chief, James McHale decided to really get it up and running as a blog. We are now posting twice a week—on Tuesdays and Thursdays—and have a crew of “beat bloggers” posting several times each semester on a specific theme. This year, for the first time, JLPP allowed associates to commit to beat blogging in lieu of writing a traditional Student Note. Our beat bloggers are Suzy Marinkovich, Mystyc Metrik, Randy Moonan, Mariloly Orozco, Puja Patel, Lisa Schmidt, and Kirk Sigmon.
Now, as future lawyers, we would be failing in our duties if we didn’t have a blanket disclaimer. The views expressed by the authors on this blog are their own, and they do not represent the collective views of the Journal or of Cornell Law School. We are 100% committed to fostering debate and publishing diverse viewpoints, so please do not hesitate to contribute by posting a comment or emailing us.
Cornell’s Journal of Law & Public Policy (the print version) is also young, having been founded in 1991. It has quickly soared to lofty heights—it is now a fixture among the top 5 policy journals and is consistently ranked among the top 100 student-edited law journals.
Part of JLPP’s success comes from our commitment to diversity of opinion on a wide variety of topics. Along with work by well-known legal scholars, we strive to publish thought-provoking pieces written by distinguished policy-makers. Past contributors include Senator Joseph Biden, Congressman Dick Armey, noted defense attorney William Kuntsler, economist Walter Williams, and Attorney General Janet Reno. Since there is a fierce competition to have one’s note published and only a chosen few are selected, the JLPP Blog will hopefully allow our student associates, editors and peers to have even more of a voice.
