Making Law Review Is Career Gold. NYU Students Want Cash Too

For the most ambitious law students, getting into a top-tier school is only the beginning. Making law review is usually the next punch on the ticket to the profession’s most elite circles.

Former President Barack Obama was famously a Harvard Law Review editor, as were three current Supreme Court justices — three others were on the Yale Law Journal. Many top private-practice lawyers also once shared the experience of spending long nights checking citations in scholarly legal articles.

And none of them got paid for it.

A sign on Vanderbilt Hall at the New York University School of Law

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But some students at New York University School of Law want to change ...