First-year students must participate in a Write-On competition after completing their final exams in the spring semester.

The Law Review then considers the student's first-year grades and performance in the write on to make offers of membership.

Prospective members must be in the top 50 percent of their first year law school class.

Past speakers have included Makan Delrahim, Maureen Ohlhausen, Joshua D. Wright, J. Thomas Rosch, and Neelie Kroes.

Notable articles published in the George Mason Law Review include: