Grade On Candidates

    John Marshall students are invited to join RIPL as a grade-on candidate if they are in the top twenty-five percent of their first year class and either:

(1) have an undergraduate degree that qualifies them to sit for the United States Patent & Trademark Office registration examination;
(2) is enrolled in the joint JD/LLM IP Law Program; or
(3) is enrolled in the JD Certificate in IP Law Program.

Write-on Candidates

    Students are invited to participate in the RIPL write-on program if they are in the top fifty percent of their class and have completed between twenty-four (24) and thirty-eight (38) credit hours. The write-on program requires participants to prepare a ten (10) page legal analysis of a chosen topic.

    All accepted RIPL candidates (both grade-on and write-on) are required to complete one student comment that is accepted by the RIPL Board, in order to become RIPL staff members.

    Any one who has a question concerning the RIPL candidacy process should contact the Candidacy Editor, Kristine Gleason, at 5gleasok@stu.jmls.edu.

    RIPL’s Faculty Advisor is Associate Professor, David L. Schwartz.