Greensheets Membership
The McGeorge Law Review invites highly qualified Pacific McGeorge students to solicit to participate as writers for its annual “Greensheets” edition, which reviews selected pieces of California legislation.
What is Greensheets?
Greensheets, named for the distinctive color its pages, is the fall issue of the McGeorge Law Review that reviews recently enacted California legislation. Students author and edit the pieces, gaining both practical experience and curricular benefits as members of the McGeorge Law Review.
Practical Experience
Students will have the opportunity to:
- Network with members of different legislative committees, lobbyists, policy think tanks, and others.
- Perform advanced research of case law and statutory law to predict the effect of new laws.
- Learn how to write publishable quality articles.
- Master the use of the Harvard Blue Book citation style (HBB is the most widely used style manual in the U.S.).
- Obtain a detailed knowledge of the legislative process.
Curricular Benefits
Students will:
- Receive two units of class credit.
- Receive the same two units of class credit toward the requirements to earn a JD Certificate in Government Law & Policy.
- Obtain the prestige of being a member of the school’s Law Review.
- Be able to opt out of taking Global Lawyering Skills II.
- Be able to solicit for the Comment section of the Law Review in their second year regardless of class rank. (Ordinarily a student who has not participated in Greensheets must be in the top 25% of the class.)
Requirements
First-year day and second-year evening students who are in the top 50% of their class after fall midterm exams have an opportunity in the spring semester to compete for a spot on the Greensheets staff by solicitation, which involves writing a mock Greensheets piece. Once aboard the staff, students then spend the summer researching and writing articles about two specific bills of their choosing that are making their way through the legislature. Bills that the governor signs into law appear in the print edition of the law review.