Membership in YJIL is open to all Yale Law School students beginning in their first year. New and returning members of the journal, known as Editors, are assigned to work on teams to edit, proofread, and cite-check individual pieces. After one semester of membership, students may apply to join the YJIL Board, the managing body that selects the content of the journal, oversees the editorial process, and runs the journal’s internal operations. The Board is currently comprised of 33 second- and third-year law students. An additional 64 students served as Editors during the 2007-2008 academic year. To see the most recent journal masthead, click here.

An introductory meeting for prospective YJIL members is held each year the same week as the school-wide activities fair in mid-September.

Volume 34 board in the YLS courtyard, May 2008




At the YJIL retreat with Ted & Gillian Sorensen, April 2008


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