Applicants must apply independently to each program, fulfilling the requirements for admission to both. Once accepted to both programs, the student will then request double counting of some elective courses thus achieving a reduction of the total time requirement for the two degrees. Students may create their own joint program or choose one of the existing established programs. Interested students should contact the admissions office in the Law School as well as the representative from the other graduate department. The students research and write a brief and then present their case in one or perhaps two rounds of oral argument before a panel of students, faculty and practitioner judges.
Board members prepare problems and review the work of contestants.
The nation's oldest continuously published law journal is The University of Pennsylvania Law Review , which was published originally in 1852 as the American Law Register by members of the Philadelphia Bar. Responsibility for its continued publication was assumed by the Law School in 1896. Since that time, it has been edited by a student staff and headed by a student board of editors. The editors of The Law Review have access to the advice of the faculty members as well as former editors, but complete responsibility for publication rests with the student editors. They plan, research and draft student comments, select articles for publication from among the 1500 unsolicited pieces received annually, edit all writing and perform the technical production work necessary for publication.