Academic journal
TheHarvard Law Review law review published by an independent student group atHarvard Law School . According to theJournal Citation Reports Harvard Law Review ' s 2015impact factor of 4.979 placed the journal first out of 143 journals in the category "Law".[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] Supreme Court of the United States .
Harvard Law Review Forum , a rolling journal of scholarly responses to the main journal's content. The law review is one of three honors societies at the law school, along with theHarvard Legal Aid Bureau and theBoard of Student Advisors . Students who are selected for more than one of these three organizations may only join one.
The Harvard Law Review Association—in conjunction with theColumbia Law Review University of Pennsylvania Law Review Yale Law Journal —The Bluebook legal citation formats in the United States.
Volume 1 of theHarvard Law Review (1887–1888) TheHarvard Law Review published its first issue on April 15, 1887, making it one of the oldest operating student-edited law reviews in the United States.[ 4] Louis Brandeis , then a recent Harvard Law School alumnus and Boston attorney who would later go on to become a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
From the 1880s to the 1970s, editors were selected based on their grades; the president of theReview was the student with the highest academic rank. The first female editor of the journal was Priscilla Holmes (1953–1955, Volumes 67–68);[ 5] Susan Estrich (1977), who later was active inDemocratic Party politics and became the youngest woman to receive tenure at Harvard Law School; its first non-white ethnic minority president was Raj Marphatia (1988, Volume 101), who is now a partner at the Boston law firm ofRopes & Gray ;[ 6] [ 7] [ 8] President of the United States Barack Obama (1991);[ 9] [ 10] [ 11] Andrew M. Crespo , who is now tenured as a professor at Harvard Law School.[ 12] ImeIme Umana , was elected in 2017.[ 13]
Gannett House, a white building constructed in theGreek Revival style that was popular inNew England during the mid-to-late 19th century, has been home to theHarvard Law Review since the 1920s. Before moving into Gannett House, the journal resided in the Law School'sAustin Hall .
Since the change in criteria in the 1970s, grades are no longer the primary basis for selecting editors. Membership in theHarvard Law Review is offered to select Harvard law students based on first-year grades and performance in a writing competition held at the end of the first year, except for twelve slots that are offered on a discretionary basis.[ 14] [ 9] [ 15] Court of Appeals case.[ 14] [ 15] [ 16] 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 twelve editors are selected on a discretionary basis. According to the law review's webpage, "Some of these discretionary slots may be used to implement the Review's affirmative action policy."[ 14] Harvard Law Review is elected by the other editors.[ 9] [ 17]
It has been a long tradition since the first issue that the works of students published in theHarvard Law Review are called "notes" and they are unsigned as part of a policy reflecting "the fact that many members of theReview besides the author contribute to each published piece."[ 18]
In 2012,Harvard Law Review had 1,722 paid subscriptions.[ 19]
In November 2023, theHarvard Law Review stopped the publication of a blog post written byRabea Eghbariah , a Palestinian student at Harvard Law.[ 20] [ 21] Law Review had asked the Eghbariah to write a blog post.The Intercept reported that the president of theLaw Review ,Apsara Iyer , with the support of a majority of theLaw Review leadership, delayed the publication of the essay because of "safety concerns and the desire to deliberate with editors."[ 21] Law Review ultimately did not publish the blog post. It was later published inThe Nation [ 22] Law Review editors criticized the decision not to publish the article, calling it an "unprecedented decision [that] threatens academic freedom and perpetuates the suppression of Palestinian voices."[ 21]
President of the United States [ edit ] Barack Obama Supreme Court Justices [ edit ] Ruth Bader Ginsburg David J. Barron , judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit , served as articles editor.[ 28] Andrew L. Brasher , judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit .Michael Boudin , judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit , served as president of volume 77.[ 24] : 182 n.141 Henry Friendly , late judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit , served as president.[ 29] Learned Hand , late judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit , served as an editor but later resigned.Harris Hartz , judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit , served as case and developments editor.[ 30] Gregory G. Katsas , judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit , executive editor of volume 102.William Kayatta , judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit .[ 31] Pierre Leval , judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit , served as notes editor.[ 32] Debra Ann Livingston , judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit .[ 32] James Kenneth Logan , judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit .Kevin C. Newsom , judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit , articles editor of volume 110.James L. Oakes , late judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit .[ 32] Nina Pillard , judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit .[ 33] [failed verification Richard Posner , judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit , served as president of volume 75.: 184 Lawrence VanDyke , judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit .Cabinet secretaries [ edit ] Merrick Garland Mike Pompeo Dean Acheson , Secretary of State.[ 34] Michael Chertoff , Secretary of Homeland Security and former judge onUnited States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit .[ 35] William Coleman Jr. , Secretary of Transportation,Brown v. Board of Education [ 36] Merrick Garland , 86thUnited States Attorney General ; Judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit , served as articles editor.[ 37] Mike Pompeo , formerUS Secretary of State .Elliot Richardson , Attorney General, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Commerce, served as president (1947).[ 38] Other U.S. government officials [ edit ] Paul Clement , former U.S. Solicitor General, served as Supreme Court editor.[ 39] Archibald Cox , U.S. Solicitor General.[ 40] Christopher Cox , former chairman ofU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission .[ 41] Ted Cruz ,U.S. Senator fromTexas .[ 42] Viet Dinh , former Assistant Attorney General, served asBluebook editor.[ 43] Charles Evans Hughes Jr. , former U.S. Solicitor General.[ 44] Michael Froman ,U.S. Trade Representative , 2013-2017.[ 45] Julius Genachowski , former chairman of theFederal Communications Commission .[ 46] Ian Gershengorn , former acting U.S. Solicitor General.[ 47] Danielle Gray , formerCabinet Secretary .[ 48] Erwin N. Griswold , a dean of the Harvard Law School andSolicitor General under presidentsLyndon B. Johnson andRichard M. Nixon .[ 9] Alger Hiss , former U.S. State Department official and alleged spy.[ 49] Ron Klain , Chief of staff to Vice PresidentsAl Gore andJoe Biden , Chief of Staff to the 46th president of the United StatesJoe Biden .[ 10] Christopher Landau , formerUnited States Ambassador to Mexico , served as articles editor.[ 50] Michael Leiter , former Director of the U.S.National Counterterrorism Center ,[ 51] [ 52] David S. Mann , former U.S. Representative fromOhio , served as editor.[ 53] Mark S. Martins , Brigadier General in theUnited States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps , Chief Prosecutor of Military Commissions.[ 54] Bernard Nussbaum , formerWhite House Counsel , served as notes editor.[ 55] F. Whitten Peters , formerSecretary of the Air Force , served as president.[ 56] Edith Ramirez , chairwoman of theFederal Trade Commission .[ 57] Rod Rosenstein ,U.S. Deputy Attorney General .Jamie Raskin , U.S. Representative fromMaryland .Robert A. Taft , U.S. Senator from Ohio.[ 58] Barry B. White ,United States Ambassador to Norway , 2009–2013.[ 59] Robert L. Deitz , formerGeneral Counsel for theNational Security Agency and Senior Counsel to theDirector of the Central Intelligence Agency , served as notes editor and Supreme Court Note.[ 60] Other government officials [ edit ] Stephen Barnett , legal scholar atUniversity of California, Berkeley School of Law who opposed theNewspaper Preservation Act of 1970 .[ 65] Alexander Bickel , late professor atYale Law School .Derek Bok , former president ofHarvard University .[ 66] Kingman Brewster , former president ofYale University , served as treasurer.[ 67] Amy Chua , professor at Yale Law School, served as executive editor.[ 68] Stephen J. Friedman , president ofPace University .[ 69] John H. Garvey , president ofThe Catholic University of America .[ 70] I. Glenn Cohen , professor at Harvard Law School.Annette Gordon-Reed , professor at Harvard Law School and winner of thePulitzer Prize for History .[ 71] Robert A. Gorman (born 1937), law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.Charles Hamilton Houston , former Dean ofHoward University Law School and NAACP Litigation Director.[ 72] Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld , professor at Yale Law School.John Honnold (1915–2011), law professor at theUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School .Harold Koh , former Dean of Yale Law School.[ 73] David Leebron , president ofRice University , served as president.[ 74] Lance Liebman , former Dean ofColumbia Law School , served as president.[ 75] Kenneth Mack , professor and historian at Harvard Law School.William C. Powers , former president ofUniversity of Texas , served as managing editor.[ 76] Stephen Schulhofer (born 1942), professor of law at theUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School andNYU Law School .John Sexton , former president ofNew York University .[ 77] James Vorenberg , former dean of Harvard Law School, served as president.[ 78] Michael K. Young , president ofTexas A&M University .[ 79] Bennett Boskey , law clerk to JudgeLearned Hand and two U.S. Supreme Court justices.[ 80] Joe Flom , noted M&A attorney and name partner atSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom .[ 81] John B. Quinn , founder and name partner ofQuinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan .[ 82] Kenneth Chesebro , participant in theJanuary 6 United States Capitol attack , indicted by the state of Georgia in the scheme to alter results of the 2020 election for US president, the Trump fake electors plot.[ 83] Andrew Schlafly , founder ofConservapedia .Hagan Scotten , formerAssistant U.S. Attorney for theSouthern District of New York Writers and journalists [ edit ] David Bonderman , co-founder of private equity firmTPG Capital .[ 89] Norman Dorsen , formerAmerican Civil Liberties Union president.[ 90] Jeff Kindler , former CEO ofPfizer .[ 91] Alfred Lee Loomis , financier, scientist, and inventor.[ 92] Rob Manfred , commissioner ofMajor League Baseball , served as articles editor.[ 93] Adebayo Ogunlesi , chairman and managing partner ofGlobal Infrastructure Partners .[ 94] Harvey Schein , former president and chief executive of theSony Corporation of America .[ 95] Nadine Strossen , formerAmerican Civil Liberties Union president.[ 96] ^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Law".2011 Journal Citation Reports Web of Science (Science ed.).Thomson Reuters . 2012. ^ "2023 W&L Law Journal Rankings" .W&L Law . 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