- Harvard Law Review
Infobox Journal
title = Harvard Law Review
editor =
discipline =Law review
language = English
abbreviation = HLR
publisher = The Harvard Law Review Association
country = United States
frequency = Monthly
(Eight times a year, November through June)
history = 1887 to present
openaccess =
impact = 6.04
impact-year = 2005
website = http://www.harvardlawreview.org/
ISSN = 0017-811XThe "Harvard Law Review" is a journal of legal scholarship published by an independent student group atHarvard Law School .Overview
The Review is one of the most cited
law review s in the United States and considered by many to be the most prestigious. 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 8,000,cite web|url=http://www.harvardlawreview.org/about.shtml|title=About The Harvard Law Review|publisher=The Harvard Law Review Association|accessdate=2008-07-19] 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", the most widely followed authority forlegal citation formats in theUnited States .Fact|date=August 2008History
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 ofLouis Brandeis , then a recent Harvard Law School alumnus and Boston attorney who would later go on to become a Justice on theUnited States Supreme Court . The first woman to serve as the Review's president was Democratic political operativeSusan Estrich (1978); its first black president was future SenatorBarack Obama (1991).cite news | first=Fox | last=Butterfield | title=First Black Elected to Head Harvard's Law Review | date=February 6 1990 | url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2DC1631F935A35751C0A966958260&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FPeople%2FO%2FObama%2C%20Barack | work=New York Times | accessdate=2008-01-04 See also: cite news | first=Jodi | last=Kantor | title=In Law School, Obama Found Political Voice | date=January 28 2007 | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/us/politics/28obama.html | work=New York Times | accessdate=2008-01-04] The recently elected Andrew Crespo (2008) was the first Hispanic president. [ [http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2007/02/05_crespo.php Harvard Law Review elects Crespo as new 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 inNew 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.election
Using a competitive process that takes into account first-year grades, an editing exercise, and a written commentary on a court decision, The "Harvard Law Review" selects between 41 and 43 editors annually from the second-year Law School class, which numbers 560.
Two editors from each of first-year class's seven sections (fourteen in all) are selected half by their first year grades and half by their scores on the writing competition. Another twenty are selected solely on their scores on the writing competition. The other seven to nine are selected by a discretionary committee, either to fulfill the review's race-based affirmative action program, to select students who just missed the cut by either of the other two processes, or by some other criteria as the committee sees fit.
Alumni
Prominent alumni of the "Harvard Law Review" include Supreme Court Justices
Edward Sanford ,Felix Frankfurter ,Ruth Bader Ginsburg ,Antonin Scalia ,Stephen Breyer and Chief JusticeJohn G. Roberts, Jr. , Presidential nominee SenatorBarack Obama , Secretary of StateDean Acheson ,Charles Hamilton Houston ,Alger Hiss ,Archibald MacLeish , Secretary of Transportation and "Brown v. Board of Education" attorneyWilliam Coleman, Jr. , JudgeRichard Posner , Chief JudgeHenry Friendly , JudgeMichael Boudin ,U.S. Department of Homeland Security SecretaryMichael Chertoff , former U.S. Solicitor GeneralPaul Clement ,U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ChairmanChris Cox , print and broadcast journalistJeffrey Toobin , former New York governorEliot Spitzer ,Harvard Law School DeanElena Kagan ,Yale Law School DeanHarold Koh , former Canadian ambassadorAllan Gotlieb , former Assistant Attorney GeneralViet Dinh , former New York State Solicitor GeneralPreeta D. Bansal , University of Texas PresidentWilliam C. Powers , and former Harvard University presidentDerek Bok .ignificant "Harvard Law Review" articles
*cite journal |last=Brandeis |first=Louis |authorlink=Louis Brandeis |coauthors=Warren, Samuel |year=1890 |month= |title=The Right to Privacy |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=4 |issue=5 |pages=193–220 |doi=10.2307/1321160 |url=http://www.lawrence.edu/fast/boardmaw/Privacy_brand_warr2.html |accessdate= |quote=
*cite journal |last=Thayer |first=James B. |authorlink=James Bradley Thayer |coauthors= |year=1893 |month= |title=The Origin and Scope of the American Doctrine of Constitutional Law |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=7 |issue=3 |pages=129–156 |doi=10.2307/1322284 |url= |accessdate= |quote=
*cite journal |last=Holmes |first=Oliver Wendell |authorlink=Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |coauthors= |year=1897 |month= |title=The Path of the Law |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=10 |issue= |pages=457 |id= |url=http://soriano-ph.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/the-path-of-the-law.pdf |accessdate= |quote=
*cite journal |last=Chafee |first=Zechariah |authorlink=Zechariah Chafee |coauthors= |year=1919 |month= |title=Freedom of Speech in Wartime |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=32 |issue=8 |pages=932–973 |doi=10.2307/1327107 |url= |accessdate= |quote=
*cite journal |last=Warren |first=Charles |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1923 |month= |title=New Light on the History of the Federal Judiciary Act of 1789 |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=49–132 |doi=10.2307/1328407 |url= |accessdate= |quote=
*cite journal |last=Radin |first=Max |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1930 |month= |title=Statutory Interpretation |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=43 |issue=6 |pages=863–885 |doi=10.2307/1330769 |url= |accessdate= |quote=
*cite journal |last=Fuller |first=Lon L. |authorlink=Lon Fuller |coauthors= |year=1949 |month= |title=The Case of the Speluncean Explorers |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=62 |issue=4 |pages=616–645 |doi=10.2307/1336025 |url= |accessdate= |quote=
*cite journal |last=Bickel |first=Alexander M. |authorlink=Alexander Bickel |coauthors= |year=1955 |month= |title=The Original Understanding and the Segregation Decision |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=69 |issue=1 |pages=1–65 |doi=10.2307/1337652 |url= |accessdate= |quote=
*cite journal |last=Wechsler |first=Herbert |authorlink=Herbert Wechsler |coauthors= |year=1959 |month= |title=Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=73 |issue=1 |pages=1–35 |doi=10.2307/1337945 |url= |accessdate= |quote=
*cite journal |last=Breyer |first=Stephen |authorlink=Stephen Breyer |coauthors= |year=1970 |month= |title= |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=84 |issue=2 |pages=281–351 |doi=10.2307/1339714 |url= |accessdate= |quote=
*cite journal |last=Calabresi |first=Guido |authorlink=Guido Calabresi |coauthors=Melamed, A. Douglas |year=1972 |month= |title=Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=85 |issue=6 |pages=1089–1128 |doi=10.2307/1340059 |url= |accessdate= |quote=
*cite journal |last=Andrews |first=William D. |authorlink=William D. Andrews |coauthors= |year=1974 |month= |title=A Consumption-Type or Cash Flow Personal Income Tax |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=87 |issue=6 |pages=1113–1188 |doi=10.2307/1340076 |url= |accessdate= |quote=
*cite journal |last=Brennan |first=William J. |authorlink=William J. Brennan, Jr. |coauthors= |year=1977 |month= |title=State Constitutions and the Protection of Individual Rights |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=90 |issue=3 |pages=489–504 |doi=10.2307/1340334 |url= |accessdate= |quote=
*cite journal |last=Unger |first=Roberto M. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1983 |month= |title=The Critical Legal Studies Movement |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=96 |issue=3 |pages=561–675 |doi=10.2307/1341032 |url= |accessdate= |quote=
*cite journal |last=Powell |first=H. Jefferson |authorlink=H. Jefferson Powell |coauthors= |year=1985 |month= |title=The Original Understanding of Original Intent |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=98 |issue=5 |pages=885–948 |doi=10.2307/1340880 |url= |accessdate= |quote=
*cite journal |last=Kennedy |first=Randall L. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1989 |month= |title=Racial Critiques of Legal Academia |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=102 |issue=8 |pages=1745–1819 |doi=10.2307/1341357 |url= |accessdate= |quote=
*cite journal |last=Bartlett |first=Katharine T. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1990 |month= |title=Feminist Legal Methods |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=103 |issue=4 |pages=829–888 |doi=10.2307/1341478 |url= |accessdate= |quote=
*cite journal |last=Kagan |first=Elena |authorlink=Elena Kagan |coauthors= |year=2001 |month= |title=Presidential Administration |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=114 |issue=8 |pages=2245–2385 |doi=10.2307/1342513 |url= |accessdate= |quote=References
External links
* [http://www.harvardlawreview.org/ Harvard Law Review homepage]
* [http://www.harvardlawreview.org/forum/HLRforum.shtml "Harvard Law Review Forum"]
* [http://www.harvardlawreview.org/Centennial.shtml History of the Harvard Law Review]
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