The Harvard Law Review is a journal of legal scholarship published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School. Harvard Law School (also known as Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional Graduate schools of Harvard University.

Contents 1 Overview 2 History 3 Selection 4 Alumni 5 Significant Harvard Law Review articles 6 References 7 External links

Overview

The Review is one of the most cited law reviews in the United States and considered by many to be the most prestigious. A law review is a scholarly journal focusing on legal issues normally published by an organization of students at a Law school or through a Bar association. 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,[1] 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 for legal citation formats in the United States. The Columbia Law Review is a Law review edited and published entirely by students at Columbia Law School. The University of Pennsylvania Law Review is a scholarly journal focusing on legal issues published by an organization of second and third year J The Yale Law Journal is a student-run journal of legal scholarship affiliated to the Yale Law School. The Bluebook A Uniform System of Citation, a Style guide, prescribes the most widely used Legal citation system in the United States. Legal citation is the legal writing practice of crediting and referring to authoritative documents and sources The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

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. Events 1450 - Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English Year 1887 ( MDCCCLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common 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. Louis Dembitz Brandeis ( November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American litigator, Supreme Court Justice, advocate The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the federal judiciary. The first woman to serve as the Review's president was Democratic political operative Susan Estrich (1978); its first black president was Senator Barack Obama (1991). Susan Estrich (born December 16 1952) is a Lawyer, Professor, Author, political operative Feminist Advocate ^[1] The recently elected Andrew Crespo (2008) was the first Hispanic president. ^[2]

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. The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries predominantly in northern Europe and the United States History See also History of New England New England's earliest inhabitants were Algonquian -speaking Native Americans including the Before moving into Gannett House in 1925, the Harvard Law Review resided in the Law School's Austin Hall. Austin Hall is a classroom building of the Harvard Law School designed by noted American architect H

Selection

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 Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., as well as Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Charles Hamilton Houston, Alger Hiss, Archibald MacLeish, Secretary of Transportation and Brown v. Edward Terry Sanford ( July 23, 1865 &ndash March 8, 1930) was an American Jurist who served on the United States Felix Frankfurter ( November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg (born March 15 1933 Brooklyn New York) is an Associate Justice on the U (born March 11, 1936) is an American Jurist and the second most senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Stephen Gerald Breyer (born August 15 1938 is an American Attorney and Jurist. John Glover Roberts Jr (born January 27 1955) is the seventeenth and current Chief Justice of the United States. Dean Gooderham Acheson ( April 11, 1893 — October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer as United States Charles Hamilton Houston ( September 3, 1895 – April 22, 1950) was an African American Lawyer, Dean of Howard University Alger Hiss (November 11 1904 – November 15 1996 was a US State Department official involved in the establishment of the United Nations. Archibald MacLeish ( May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American Poet, Writer and the Librarian Board of Education attorney William Coleman, Jr., Senator Barack Obama, Judge Richard Posner, Chief Judge Henry Friendly, Chief Judge Michael Boudin, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, former U. William Thaddeus Coleman Jr (born July 7, 1920 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA was the fourth United States Secretary of Transportation Richard Allen Posner (born January 11 1939 in New York City) is currently a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago Henry Jacob Friendly ( July 3 1903 in Elmira New York – March 11 1986, New York City) was a prominent Judge Michael Boudin (born 1939 is a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Michael B Chertoff (born November 28, 1953) is the current United States Secretary of Homeland Security, and co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act S. Solicitor General Paul Clement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Chris Cox, former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan, Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh, former Canadian ambassador Allan Gotlieb, former Assistant Attorney General Viet Dinh, former New York State Solicitor General Preeta D. Bansal, University of Texas President William C. Powers, and former Harvard University president Derek Bok. Paul Drew Clement (born June 1966 was until recently the United States Solicitor General. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (commonly known as the SEC) is an independent agency of the United States government which holds primary responsibility Charles Christopher Cox (born October 16, 1952, in St Paul Minnesota, USA has served as Chairman of the U Eliot Laurence Spitzer (born June 10, 1959) is an American lawyer and former politician of the Democratic Party. Harvard Law School (also known as Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional Graduate schools of Harvard University. Elena Kagan (born April 28, 1960) is the dean of Harvard Law School and the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law at Harvard University Yale Law School, or YLS, is the Law school of Yale University in New Haven Connecticut. Biography A Korean-American native of Boston, he graduated in 1971 from the New Haven prep school Hopkins, graduated Allan Ezra Gotlieb, CC, LLD, LLB, MA (born February 28, 1928) is a Canadian Viet D Dinh (Đinh Đồng Phụng Việt born February 22, 1968) is a lawyer who served as the Assistant Attorney General of Preeta D Bansal is a leading United States lawyer whose career has spanned government service and private practice William Charles Powers Jr (born May 30, 1946) is the 28th president of The University of Texas at Austin, a position he has held since February 1 Derek Curtis Bok (born March 22, 1930) is an American lawyer and educator and the former president of Harvard University.

Significant Harvard Law Review articles

• Louis Brandeis & Samuel Warren, The Right to Privacy, 4 Harvard Law Review 193-220 (1890-91)
• James B. Louis Dembitz Brandeis ( November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American litigator, Supreme Court Justice, advocate Samuel Dennis Warren ( 1852 - February 20, 1910, Dedham Massachusetts) was a Boston attorney Thayer, The Origin and Scope of the American Doctrine of Constitutional Law, 7 Harvard Law Review 129 (1893).
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Path of the Law, 10 Harvard Law Review 457 (1897). Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr ( March 8, 1841 &ndash March 6, 1935) was an American Jurist who served on the Supreme
• Charles Warren, New Light on the History of the Federal Judiciary Act of 1789, 37 Harvard Law Review 49 (1923).
• Max Radin, Statutory Interpretation, 43 Harvard Law Review 863 (1930).
• Lon Fuller, The Case of the Speluncean Explorers, 62 Harvard Law Review 616 (1949). Lon Luvois Fuller (1902–1978 was a noted legal philosopher, who wrote The Morality of Law in 1964 discussing the connection between law and morality The Case of the Speluncean Explorers is a famous hypothetical legal case used in the study of law which was written by Lon Fuller in 1949 for the Harvard Law Review
• Alexander M. Bickel, The Original Understanding and the Segregation Decision, 69 Harvard Law Review 1 (1955). Alexander Mordecai Bickel ( December 17 1924 – November 8 1974) was a law professor and expert on the United States Constitution.
• Herbert Wechsler, Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law, 73 Harvard Law Review 1 (1959). Herbert Wechsler (1909–2000 was a legal scholar and former director of the American Law Institute (ALI
• Stephen Breyer, The Uneasy Case for Copyright, 84 Harvard Law Review 281 (1970)
• Guido Calabresi & A. Douglas Melamed, Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral, 85 Harvard Law Review 1089 (1972). Stephen Gerald Breyer (born August 15 1938 is an American Attorney and Jurist. " The Uneasy Case for Copyright A Study of Copyright in Books Photocopies and Computer Programs " was an article in the Harvard Law Review by future Guido Calabresi (born October 18, 1932, Milan, Italy) is a US A Douglas Melamed is a nationally known American legal scholar and currently in private practice
• William J. Brennan, Jr., State Constitutions and the Protection of Individual Rights, 90 Harvard Law Review 489 (1977). William Joseph Brennan Jr ( April 25, 1906 &ndash July 24, 1997) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
• Roberto M. Unger, The Critical Legal Studies Movement, 96 Harvard Law Review 561 (1983).
• H. Jefferson Powell, The Original Understanding of Original Intent, 98 Harvard Law Review 885 (1985). H Jefferson Powell has been professor of Law at Duke University since 1987
• Randall L. Kennedy, Racial Critiques of Legal Academia, 102 Harvard Law Review 1745 (1989).
• Katharine T. Bartlett, Feminist Legal Methods, 103 Harvard Law Review 829 (1990).
• Elena Kagan, Presidential Administration, 114 Harvard Law Review 2245 (2001). Elena Kagan (born April 28, 1960) is the dean of Harvard Law School and the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law at Harvard University

References

External links

• About the Harvard Law Review
• History of the Harvard Law Review

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