Twenty Years of Student Scholarship: Celebrating the Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies

In the case of the Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies that person was its first editor-in-chief, Ryerson Symons. In the production of the first volume, released in 1992, he was joined by an 11-person board of directors, a 30-person editorial board, a 10-person notes and comments editorial committee, a 12-person book reviews editorial committee, a large number of managers and assistants, five founding patrons, and a six-member advisory board. A lot of people were persuaded that the Journal had merit. I might continue on the theme of identifying the characteristics of successful projects. If a good project has an early champion and a legion of people who see its merits, it has to be able to outlive those early visionaries. A friend once pointed out, a project is lousy if it fails to survive you. The Journal has not just survived, it has thrived. Twenty volumes. A remarkable accomplishment that does great honour to its early advocates.