Student control of law reviews originated early and has never been challenged

Evidence

But one feature, unique to law reviews, seems unalterable: they are, as in the past, run by students, and it is students who decide what to print and how to print it. That students should be in charge of prestigious scholarly journals, that students should decide what is and what is not fit to print, strikes any historian, chemist, or otolaryngologist as totally absurd. But that principle was present at the creation, and it has hardened into dogma. — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3613