Harvard Law Review
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The Harvard Law Review is a journal of legal scholarship published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School. The journal, one of the most cited law reviews in the United States and considered by many to be the most prestigious, appears monthly from November through June. It has a circulation of about 8,000 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 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 prompting of Louis Brandeis, a recent Harvard Law School alumnus at the time who would later go on to become a Justice on the United States Supreme Court.
The Harvard Law Review Association is also one of the publishers of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, the most widely followed authority for legal citation formats in the United States.
Using a competitive process that takes into account 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 550.
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.
Prominent alumni of the Harvard Law Review include Supreme Court Justices Edward Sanford, Chief Justice 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, Senator Barack Obama, Judge Richard Posner, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Chris Cox, New York state attorney general Eliot Spitzer, and once-and-future Harvard University president Derek Bok.
Significant Harvard Law Review articles
- Louis Brandeis & Samuel Warren ["The Right to Privacy," 4 Harvard Law Review 193-220 (1890-91)]
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