Executive Board
Melissa Griffith, Editor-in-Chief
The editor-in-chief is responsible for overseeing the entire operation of the Review, including supervising all executive board members in their duties. The EIC works as a liaison with the administration and faculty, as well as with others in the legal community. The EIC is involved in the selection of members for the Review, as well as publication decisions regarding student authors. The EIC is the last line of defense in the editing process and must prepare each issue for publication. lawreview@wayne.edu.
Natalia Perkowska, Managing Editor
The managing editor works with the editor-in-chief and publisher in readying issues for publication. The managing editor implements and oversees copyright and licensing provisions of the Review’s bylaws; manages and maintains the Review’s library; serves as a liaison to alumni, coordinates the annual alumni reception; maintains subscriber and alumni databases; manages article reprints; and serves as contact with Lexis, Westlaw, and the Bureau of National Affairs. managing_editor@wayne.edu.
Francis Doud, Production Editor
The production editor manages the editing process for the articles. The production editor handles correspondence with article authors and guides them through the editing process. law_production_editor@wayne.edu.
Alyssa Bellini, Executive Note & Comment Editor
The executive note & comment editor supervises both the senior note & comment editors and the assistant editors throughout the note writing process. The executive note & comment editor also organizes the yearly write-on competition and with the editor-in-chief helps select which write-on participants will be invited to join the Review.
Lydia Dunn, Executive Articles Editor
The executive articles editor reviews all incoming submission to the Wayne Law Review and selects articles for publication in the two regular editions, compiles and categorizes all published Michigan court cases, recruits authors to write on each area of law covered in the Annual Survey of Michigan Law, and oversees Survey article submissions. lawreviewarticles@wayne.edu.
Samantha Lamrock, Symposium Editor
The symposium editor coordinates the Wayne Law Review’s Annual Symposium. The Annual Symposium provides a forum for students, scholars, professors and the public to discuss a timely legal issue. The upcoming Symposium will focus on criminal sentencing standards. Scholars from the academic and professional community will be invited to Wayne State University Law School to speak on current issues arising both national in scope and within the State of Michigan.
Erli Metko, Diversity Editor
The diversity editor is responsible for ensuring that the Review remains committed to its mission of increasing the representation of diverse identities among our membership, leadership, and authorship. To achieve this goal, the diversity editor’s responsibilities include chairing the diversity committee, creating any personal and diversity statements for the write-on competition and grading the statements submitted, working with the executive articles editor and symposium editor to solicit scholarship by authors with diverse identities, reviewing all articles and notes to be published, and developing and maintaining relationships with diverse student organizations at Wayne Law and engaging in recruitment activities with these groups to increase representation among our members.
Staff Members
Senior Note & Comment Editors
The senior note & comment editors are each assigned a small group of contributing editors. The senior note & comment editors provide feedback and assistance to their group throughout the note writing process.
Courtney Dewey
Emma Klug
Tayler Swartz‡
Senior Articles Editors
The senior articles editors oversee the assistant editors and help guide them through the editing of the articles.
Makala Borg
Rowan Gerendasy
Kyle Johnson
Farah Joni‡
Klara Marku
Carly Schneider
Legal Scholarship Editors
The legal scholarship editors are each assigned a small group of associate editors. The legal scholarship editors provide feedback and assistance to their group throughout the legal scholarship writing process.
Alexander Coryell‡
Natalia Grasso
Evan Irvine
Zehra Jafri
MarcAnthony Pattera
Contributing Editors
Contributing editors are first-year Law Review members. They are responsible for some of the initial editing process. Additionally, in order to receive credit, each assistant editor must write a note of publishable quality on a timely legal topic of their choice, which is considered for publication in the Review.
Dino Frank Bucci III |
Lizarayne Herrington |
Hadley Pritchard |
Teodor Dhespollari |
Hassan Houmani |
Rafael Qasawa |
Ashly Hancock |
Hailey Kallabat |
Micah Stadnika |
Paul Havern |
Angelo Kishmish |
Caroline Wickersham |
Associate Editors
Associate editors are first-year Law Review members. They are responsible for the bulk of the initial editing process. Additionally, in order to receive credit, each associate editor must write a legal scholarship on a timely legal topic of their choice.
Christopher Abell |
Scout Ciora |
Yosef Pollack |
Mariam Amin |
Daniel Cooke |
Megan Rumbles |
Batoul Bazzi |
Lauren Filipiak |
Delaney Ruston |
Kaleigh Belz |
Dayna Iwan |
Andrew Waters |
Daniel Boss |
Lizbeth Lopez-Bermudez |
Sukana Saher Zaidi |
‡ Voting Member