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The Harvard Law Review is a journal of legal scholarship published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School.
Review is one of the most cited law reviews in the United States. It is published monthly from November through June, with the November issue dedicated to covering the previous year's Supreme Court Term. The review has a circulation of about 4,000, and also publishes online.
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The Harvard Law Review is a journal of legal scholarship published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School.
Overview
The Review is one of the most cited law reviews in the United States. It is published monthly from November through June, with the November issue dedicated to covering the previous year's Supreme Court Term. The review has a circulation of about 4,000, and also publishes online. In addition, it publishes the online-only Harvard Law Review Forum, a rolling journal of scholarly responses to the main journal's content.
The Harvard Law Review Association, in conjunction with the Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal, publishes The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, a widely followed authority for legal citation formats in the United States.
History
The Harvard Law Review published its first issue on April 15, 1887, and is the oldest operating student-edited law review in the nation. The establishment of this institution was largely due to the support of Louis Brandeis, then a recent Harvard Law School alumnus and Boston attorney who would later go on to become a Justice on the United States Supreme Court. The first woman to serve as the Review's president was Democratic political operative Susan Estrich (1978); its first black president was U.S. President Barack Obama (1991). The recently elected Andrew Crespo (2008) was the first Hispanic president.
The Harvard Law Review headquarters, Gannett House, is located on the Harvard Law School campus. It is an elegant white building done in the Greek Revival style that was popular in New England during the mid- to late 1800s. Before moving into Gannett House in 1925, the Harvard Law Review resided in the Law School's Austin Hall.
Fourteen editors (two from each 1L section) are selected based on a combination of their first-year grades and their competition scores. Twenty editors are selected based solely on their competition scores. The remaining editors are selected on a discretionary basis.
Alumni/ae
Prominent alumni/ae of the Harvard Law Review include:
United States President
Supreme Court Justices
Other Jurists
- Michael Boudin, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, served as President of Volume 77
- Henry Friendly, late judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, served as President
- Pierre Leval, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, served as Notes Editor
- Debra Ann Livingston, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- James L. Oakes, late judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Richard Posner, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, served as President of Volume 75
Cabinet Secretaries
- Dean Acheson, Secretary of State
- Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security and former judge on United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- William Coleman, Jr., Secretary of Transportation, Brown v. Board of Education attorney, and first African-American Supreme Court clerk
- Elliot Richardson, Attorney General, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Commerce, served as Law Review President (1947)
Other U.S. Government Officials
- Paul Clement, former U.S. Solicitor General, served as Supreme Court Editor
- Archibald Cox, late U.S. Solicitor General
- Chris Cox, former Chairman of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- Viet Dinh, former Assistant Attorney General, served as Bluebook editor
- Michael Froman, deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs in the Obama Administration
- Julius Genachowski, chairman-designate of the Federal Communications Commissions
- Erwin N. Griswold, a dean of the Harvard Law School and Solicitor General under presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon
- Alger Hiss, former U.S. State Department Official and accused spy
- Michael Leiter, current Director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, President of Volume 113
Other Government Officials
Academics
- Derek Bok, former Harvard University President
- Kingman Brewster, late Yale University President, served as Law Review Treasurer
- Charles Hamilton Houston, former Dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP Litigation Director
- Elena Kagan, Dean of Harvard Law School, nominated as Solicitor General in the Obama Administration
- Harold Koh, Dean of Yale Law School
- David Leebron, President of Rice University, served as Law Review President
- William C. Powers, President of University of Texas, served as Managing editor
- John Sexton, President of New York University
Writers and Journalists
Other Alumni/ae
Significant articles
External links
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