These articles are written by students, faculty, and other members of the legal profession. The top-ranking twenty students at the end of the first year of law school are invited to join the Law Journal staff. Additional students are invited through participation in a writing competition. Participation on the staff of the Law Journal provides an unusual combination of individual and group effort as well as an invaluable opportunity to develop several of the skills on which the legal profession is based. The ability to write under the supervision of trained legal writers and to constructively criticize and edit the written work of others are major elements of any type of legal practice.
Membership also provides opportunities normally unavailable to the law student.
These include the opportunity to have a real effect by authoring an article that will be studied and relied upon by legal scholars and practicing attorneys alike and the opportunity to participate in the management of an ongoing enterprise. For these reasons, attorneys recognize active participation on the Law Journal as an important asset of a prospective associate. Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution Traditional litigation makes up only a small percentage of what comprises the total legal system. Forms of negotiation, mediation, bargaining, arbitration, and settlement make up the rest of the dispute resolution process. These dispute resolution processes have become more highly recognized as society has grown dissatisfied with the costs and delays of traditional litigation.