The Peer Review is part of a new series in which we shine the spotlight on the students behind the CJLPP. To view other Peer Review issues, click on the tag below.
Sean Volke is a Print Edition Editor at the Claremont Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a fourth-year student at Pomona College. He’s been a part of the Journal for 5 semesters!
How/why did you get involved with the CJLPP?
In the spring of my sophomore year, I became fascinated with topics featured in the CJLPP while I was taking a course in constitutional law. I applied directly to the Print Edition Editor role, and I was so excited to join this intellectual and thoughtful community committed to helping each other learn. It goes to show that you can get involved in the Journal at any point in your time in Claremont, and there isn’t a conventional path you have to follow if you want to join the editing team!
What have you recently been working on in the Journal? Anything specific you’d like to share?
This year, I’ve been leading workshops on The Bluebook style guide used by most U.S. law schools, legal publications, and our very own print edition. Learning how to “Bluebook” your writing is valuable if you want to study law in the future, but even if you’re like me and not planning to go to law school, it’s a great skill and makes the CJLPP stand out among undergraduate journals. Being the unofficial Bluebook editor has been a great experience, and it’s been rewarding to carry on the Journal’s tradition of excellence.
What else has been going on in your life that you might like to share?
Elsewhere on campus, I stay busy as the ASPC Vice President of Academic Affairs (Pomona student government) and doing research with a Politics professor on anarchist immigrant communities. While we’ve been away from Claremont, my living situation has jumped around from Seattle (WA), to Portland (OR), to Longmont (CO).
