Harvard Law Review

The Harvard Law Review is a student-edited scholarly legal journal published by an independent organization of Harvard Law School students. Founded in 1887, it publishes articles, essays, and student notes on legal questions.

Harvard Law Review Association: The independent student organization that publishes and governs the Harvard Law Review. It provides the journal’s institutional structure and places editorial authority with students.
Harvard Law School: A law school at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The journal’s student editors are drawn from this school.
Barack Obama: An American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He served as the Harvard Law Review’s first Black president in 1990–1991.
United States Supreme Court: The highest federal court in the United States, with authority to review cases under the Constitution and federal law. The journal publishes analysis of the Court’s decisions and the doctrines they shape.
Yale Law Journal: A student-edited scholarly legal journal published at Yale Law School. It is a prominent peer journal with a different law-school affiliation.
Harvard Law Review editors: Harvard Law School students who select, edit, and produce the journal’s published work. Editors evaluate submissions and turn selected manuscripts into finished articles.
Christopher Columbus Langdell: An American legal scholar and Harvard Law School dean who helped develop the case method of legal instruction. His deanship formed the institutional setting in which students founded the journal.
Sonia Sotomayor: An associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, appointed in 2009. She published a student note in the journal while studying at Yale Law School.
Legal citation: A standardized reference that identifies legal authorities such as cases, statutes, and regulations. The journal’s citation practices help make legal arguments and authorities traceable.
Stanford Law Review: A student-edited scholarly legal journal published at Stanford Law School. It offers a West Coast counterpart among leading student-run law reviews.

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