I am pleased to announce the establishment of our newest law journal, the Estate Planning & Community Property Law Journal. This law student initiative will both fill a near void in journals addressing this important area of the law and provide Texas Tech Law and its students with increased visibility nation-wide, and especially in those very populous states that adhere to community property concepts. Additionally, this journal provides another layer of educational opportunity for those law students with special interest in estate planning, community property, and related areas such as family law.

Second-year law students will be given an opportunity to compete for positions on the editorial board of this new journal in accordance with an announcement that will be released February 28^th. Opportunities for first-year students to join the journal staff will be announced in conjunction with the announcements concerning opportunities to join our two current law journals, The Texas Tech Law Review, and the Texas Tech Journal of Texas Administrative Law.

Thanks for this exciting development should go to the student Founding Board of the Estate Planning & Community Property Law Journal: Joseph Dyson, Scott McEntire, Eric Pace, Kelli Stumbo, and Tadd Tobkin. Thanks also to the editorial boards of our existing journals, led by their editors, Brad Levy and Emily Howell respectively, for their cooperation and assistance in enabling the establishment of our new journal. And special thanks to Governor Preston Smith Regent’s Professor of Law Gerry Beyer and Professor Michael Hatfield for their sponsorship of the new journal. Without their stature and expertise in this field of law and their willingness to lend their time and talent to this project the establishment of this new journal simply would have been impossible.

To reiterate, this is a special and important development in our relatively young law school’s journey “onward and upward” and I encourage you to join me in thanking and congratulating those students and faculty who made it possible.

Walter B. Huffman