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1 UC Irvine L. Rev. i (2011)

handle is hein.journals/ucirvlre1 and id is 1 raw text is: FOREWORD Well before the UC Irvine School of Law opened its doors last fall, the founding faculty's mantra was that the school must be traditional enough to be credible, but innovative enough to justify our existence. Following this lead, the inaugural class has tried to balance innovation with tradition in all our undertakings, including establishing the UC Irine Law Rediew. This inaugural issue is the product of an evolving process: organic and democratic became the recurring themes of the first year. Nearly the entire inaugural class of sixty students expressed interest in founding a law review. Although as 1Ls we were still learning to adjust to the demands of law school, we began to lay the foundation for the journal in our second semester with the goal of publishing during our second year. We benefited from the foresight of our faculty, who had organized a series of symposia that would generate content for the first volume. Within a matter of weeks, nearly a dozen preliminary committees- design, editorial, governance, training, and so on-were formed to gather research, present options to the group, and make decisions regarding the inaugural issue. Our class was enthusiastic about the opportunity to build a law review from the ground up and to consider-and reconsider-the standard assumptions about law review success. Between the hurdles often required for admission to membership and their byzantine procedures, law reviews are steeped in tradition. But tradition for the sake of tradition was not good enough. At every step, we have asked ourselves why, and justified our decisions in creating an editorial process and making stylistic and content choices. Seeking to create leadership roles for all committed members of the law review, while recognizing that we were new to the editing process, we set out to create a system where nearly every member would oversee an article in the first volume. We settled on an unconventional and egalitarian structure, creating small, fixed editing teams with leadership duties rotating within the team for each article in the first volume. The membership also elected a six-member governing board free of any individual titles or other hierarchy to oversee the initial set-up and administration. The governing board met throughout the summer to lay the groundwork for the first issue. By August, the first batch of articles had arrived, so the real work was ready to begin. This unconventional approach also found its way to the substance and shape of the content. At the inspired suggestion of Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, our first

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