Torrey Law Review’s Story

Ricardo Cervera (co-founder)

So, it was around 2:30 AM and I was having another one of those sleepless nights. Being the nerd that I am, I turned on the light and decided I was going to do some reading. On my nightstand was an article from the Harvard Law Review I had started reading earlier that day. I began reading and as I was going through it I thought to myself “why doesn’t anything like this exist at the high school level?” Without giving much thought to it, I fell asleep. The next day, I created a very basic proposal of what I thought the idea might look like. I invited Terry and asked him if he wanted to join me in my endeavor, and there, the Law Review was born. Of course, I had to work tirelessly to make this a success, but every second was worth it. I am really happy with what I have put together and I’m looking forward to seeing where this endeavor will go in the future.

Terentin Tran (co-founder)

“The Torrey Law Review was a project that Ricardo and I had been working on for what seems several years, but really only started in summer after our sophomore year. Ricardo and I were in casual conversation, and Ricardo told me that he wanted to start a legal-related publication at the High School level. At the time he had told me it would probably be about an hour to two hours commitment every semester (which was outrageously incorrect), and I agreed, seeing that we both had a passion for the law. We worked on it tirelessly over the course of the summer, consulting with teachers, administrators, and existing publications to more clearly form what we wanted to do.

Within a couple of weeks, we had landed on the idea of creating a law review at the high school level and began working to establish a process by which we could bring this to life. We wanted our publication to be different or unique in some way, and so we agreed that a board of legal professionals that would review our work would be the best way to set us apart from other publications, as well as maintain a high standard of quality. We began to make contact with lawyers, law professors, and law students, who would go on to comprise our professional board, the signature feature of our review. After dozens of hours of meetings with teachers, lawyers, marketing, and hundreds of emails, we had a plan. From there it was just coordination and hard work, and I’m very proud of what we’ve built, and what we will continue to do. I’ve put in a lot more than one to two hours of work into creating the review this semester, but I don’t regret a single second of it.”