Harvard Law Journals and Reviews

BlackLetter Law Journal

www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/blj, hlsblj@law.harvard.edu

Originally founded in 1983 as an internal publication of the Black Law Students Association, the Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal is now an annual publication edited by students at Harvard Law School. The Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal is committed to publishing manuscripts that critique traditional constitutionalism and promote civil rights. The Journal focuses on legal issues of particular importance to African Americans and other status minorities. The Journal has adopted an interdisciplinary approach to the law and includes articles and essays addressing social and economic issues that affect the exercise of legal rights and privileges. In recent years, the Journal has expanded its mission to encourage publication of work by minority authors.

Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review

www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/crcl, hlscrc@law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (CR-CL) was founded in 1966 as an instrument to advance personal freedoms and human dignities. CR-CL seeks to catalyze progressive thought and dialogue through publishing innovative legal scholarship and from various perspectives and in diverse fields of study. CR-CL has published articles by professors, practitioners, and students on varied topics including zoning the homeless, political lawyering, and the right to revolution. These and other subjects continue to be some of the most exciting and rapidly developing areas of the law.

Environmental Law Review

www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr, hlselr@law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Environmental Law Review (HELR) has been published semi-annually, in winter and spring, since 1976. HELR publishes articles on a broad range of environmental affairs, such as land use; air, water, and noise regulation; toxic substances control; radiation control; energy use; workspace pollution; science and technology control; and resource use and regulation. HELR draws upon environmental experts from government, academia, private practice, industry and public interest groups to cover legal developments at the local, state, federal, foreign, and international levels.

Human Rights Journal

www.law.harvard.edu/studorgs/hrj, hlshrj@law.harvard.edu

Published annually by Harvard Law School students.

International Law Journal

www.harvardilj.org, hlsilj@law.harvard.edu

The ILJ publishes articles on international, comparative, and foreign law, the role of international law in U.S. courts, and the international ramifications of U.S. domestic law. These articles are written by the most prominent scholars and practitioners in the field and have been recognized as important contributions to the development of international law. ILJ articles have been cited in decisions by the United States Supreme Court, European Court of Justice, International Court of Justice, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, and World Trade Organization Dispute Panels. The ILJ also publishes student-written work. In addition to an annual Student Note Competition, the ILJ publishes student-written pieces on recent developments in international law and reviews of new books in the field.

Journal of Law & Gender

www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlg, hlsjlg@law.harvard.edu

Formerly the Harvard Women's Law Review, the Journal of Law & Gender focuses on issues relating to gender and law, feminist jurisprudence, and social equality.

Journal of Law & Public Policy

www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp

The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy is published three times annually by the Harvard Society for Law & Public Policy, Inc., an organization of Harvard Law School students. The Journal is one of the most widely circulated student-edited law reviews and the nation's leading forum for conservative and libertarian legal scholarship. The late Stephen Eberhard and former Senator and Secretary of Energy E. Spencer Abraham founded the journal twenty-eight years ago and many journal alumni have risen to prominent legal positions in the government and at the nation's top law firms.

Journal of Law & Technology

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The Harvard Journal of Law & Technology ("JOLT") publishes writings by academics, practitioners, and policymakers on a variety of topics, including intellectual property, biotechnology, e-commerce, cybercrime, the Internet, telecommunications, and evidentiary technology. These and other subjects are some of the most exciting and rapidly developing areas of the law.

Journal on Legislation

www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jol

The Journal specializes in the analysis of legislation and the legislative process. It focuses on legislative reform and on organizational and procedural factors that affect the efficiency and effectiveness of legislative decision-making. The Journal is especially interested in publishing articles that examine public policy problems of national significance and propose legislation to resolve them. The Journal on Legislation is published semiannually (winter and summer) by Harvard Law School students, and also publishes a biannual Congress Issue, which includes policy essays written by members of Congress.

Latino Law Review

www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/llr, hllr@law.harvard.edu

The Harvard Latino Law Review provides a forum for the scholarly discussion of legal issues affecting Latinos and Latinas in the United States. Recent articles have addressed issues including racial profiling, the English-only movement, the paradox of the alien-citizen, and the future of Latino legal scholarship. HLLR is an annual publication. In the past, the journal has published works by law professors, practitioners, and politicians. Authors are encouraged to contact the HLLR using the information provided in the Submissions portion of their website. Law students interested in working for the HLLR are welcome to apply for positions. Journal members have the opportunity to assume upper-level responsibilities early in their law school tenure. Feel free to drop by office in the basement of Hastings Hall or contact them via email.

Law & Policy Review

www.hlpronline.com

The Harvard Law & Policy Review (HLPR) is published twice annually and serves as the official journal of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy. The American Constitution Society provides financial support for the publication of the review. The review invites innovative approaches to policy challenges by providing a credible and prominent forum for substantive debate between progressive legal scholars, policymakers, and practitioners. HLPR is a nexus between the worlds of academia and practice, with a focus on promoting scholarship with practical application to societal challenges.

Law Review

www.harvardlawreview.org

The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization formally independent from Harvard Law School whose primary purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. The Review comes out monthly from November through June and has roughly 2,000 pages per volume. Student editors make all editorial and organizational decisions and, together with a professional business staff of three, carry out day-to-day operations. Aside from serving as an important academic forum for legal scholarship, the Review has two other goals. First, the journal is designed to be an effective research tool for practicing lawyers and students of the law. Second, it provides opportunities for Review members to develop their own editing and writing skills. Accordingly, each issue contains pieces by student editors as well as outside authors. The Review publishes articles by professors, judges, and practitioners and solicits reviews of important recent books from recognized experts. All articles—even those by the most respected authorities—are subjected to a rigorous editorial process designed to sharpen and strengthen substance and tone. Most student writing takes the form of Notes, Recent Cases, Recent Legislation, and Book Notes. Notes are approximately 18 pages and are usually written by third-year students. Recent Cases and Recent Legislation are normally six pages long and are written mainly by second-year students. Recent Cases are comments on recent decisions by courts other than the U.S. Supreme Court, such as state supreme courts, federal circuit courts, district courts, and foreign courts. Recent Legislation look at new statutes or administrative rules at either the state or federal level. Book Notes, also written by second-years, are six-page reviews of recently published books. All student writing is unsigned. This policy reflects the fact that many members of the Review, besides the author, make a contribution to each published piece.

Negotiation Law Review

www.hnlr.org

The Harvard Negotiation Law Review works to close the gap regarding the systematic analysis of legal negotiation by providing a forum in which scholars from many disciplines can discuss negotiation as it relates to law and legal institutions. Unlike Negotiation Journal, which has a general audience of negotiation scholars and practitioners, the Harvard Negotiation Law Review is aimed specifically at lawyers and legal scholars. The premier issue (Spring 1996), explored interdisciplinary academic perspectives on such topics as decision analysis, litigation settlement, and mediator roles, strategies and tactics. Subsequent volumes have expanded on these topics, and included additional discussion of the lawyer's role as a problem solver, reconsideration of legal education in light of negotiation, and a range of case studies of innovative negotiation and mediation systems around the world. HNLR is published twice per year.