Senior Editorial Board
The ILJ is now accepting applications for Senior Editorial Board members for the 2016-2017 academic year. Incoming 2L, 3L, and graduate students are welcome to apply, and may choose to get academic credit for participation with the ILJ.
To apply, please send us a one page letter that responds to the following questions:
- What draws you to Indigenous law?
- What experience (formal or informal) do you have with Aboriginal and Indigenous law and advocacy?
- What kind of experience do you have with legal research, writing, and editing?
- What unique skills will you bring to the ILJ? Do you have an ideas to improve the ILJ?
Please send your letter to: indiglaw.journal@gmail.com with the subject line "SEB Application” by March 14, 2016.
The co-Editors-in-Chief will be selected first (see separate Headnotes announcement) and they, in turn, will select next year's Senior Editors.
General Duties For All SEB Members Include:
- Leading two cell group meetings (one per semester)
- Meeting with the SEB to review papers passed up from the cell group level (once per semester)
- Attending 4 lunch time journal workshops with Professor Reaume
- Working with authors to finalize papers
- Taking charge of an SEB portfolio
SE portfolios may change from year to year based on the needs of the journal, and based on how the new EICs decide to structure the SEB. If you are applying for an SEB position, you may indicate which portfolio(s) you would prefer should you have a preference. You are more than welcome to apply for multiple positions.
SEB Portfolios:
Business Manager: Ensures bills are paid on time, facilitates reimbursements, organizes mail, works/communicates with our office assistant on any business-related matters.
Web/Communications Coordinator: Ensures the ILJ website is up-to-date, and the email accounts are checked regularly. SEs in this position may also work on updating email lists.
Events Coordinator: Plans the retreat and launch party.
External Review (likely x 2): Solicits professionals and academics to review all papers that have been passed up to the SEB.
Rejection letter and Cell Group Coordinator: Assigns the SEs and AEs cell groups, receives submissions from the Submissions Manager, assigns the submissions that the groups will review, collects rejection letters and gives them a quick edit for content and grammar before passing the letters along to the Submissions Manager.
Community Voices: This section of the Journal is designed to allow Indigenous people and communities to speak for themselves about the issues that touch directly on their lives. An SE who takes on this position may work throughout the year (and possibly summer) with an Indigenous community or individual that is chosen by them and the EICs to draft a submission to the journal.
Submission and Subscription: Contacts individuals and institutions to promote the journal and increase subscription and submission numbers.
Submissions Manager: Collects the submissions, scrubs them then sends them to the SEB member with the cell groups and rejection letters portfolio. Afterwards, he or she sends the Rejection Letters to the authors, and provides timeline and process updates to authors whose papers are passed forward, before those authors' identities are revealed to the SEB. Note, the Submissions Manager does not participate in the submission review process.
