Annual Student Notes Program

Each year staffwriters (second-year law students) are required to write a Note on an issue of current interest in the law with the help of a faculty advisor and a member of the Law Review board.  All entries submitted to the board are read and evaluated for quality of writing and use of the correct citation formatting.  Authors of the two notes chosen as most outstanding receive one of two awards along with a cash prize either The Roy L. Steinheimer Law Review Award or the W&L Law Council Law Review Award.  The Notes are presented to faculty, staff, and students at the Law Review Student Notes Program the following year when the authors serve as Editors on the Law Review board.  These notes, along with other well-written notes, are published in the Washington and Lee Law Review.

2009-2010 Notes Awarded:

Quinn T. Ryan, Beyond BATSA:  Getting Serious About State Corporate Tax Reform

Brett M. Shockley, Protecting Due Process from the PROTECT Act:  The Problems with Increasing Periods of Supervised Release for Sexual Offenders

2009 Presentations