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19-564: The journal also publishes the online-only 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 the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau and the Board 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

38-733: A bachelor's in Spanish and in economics and math. In 2012, she was a finalist for a Rhodes Scholarship . She was awarded the Clarendon Fund scholarship to pursue graduate studies at University of Oxford , where she received an MPhil in economics. In 2018, Iyer joined the Antiquities Trafficking Unit within the New York County District Attorney 's office, working with Matthew Bogdanos on major cases related to art and crime ,

57-525: 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." The president of the Harvard Law Review is elected by

76-433: A writing competition held at the end of the first year except for twelve slots that are offered on a discretionary basis. The writing competition includes two components: an edit of an unpublished article and an analysis of a recent United States Supreme Court or Court of Appeals case. The writing competition submissions are graded blindly to assure anonymity. Fourteen editors (two from each 1L section) are selected based on

95-716: Is composed of approximately fifty second- and third-year student attorneys at Harvard Law School who provide free legal services to a diverse population of low-income clients in the Greater Boston area. It is Boston's second largest legal services provider. Members of the bureau practice under Rule 3:03 of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court , which allows them to appear in court as counsel of record for low-income clients. The bureau currently employs nine practicing attorneys who train and supervise members. Bureau members practice in

114-720: Is the oldest student-run legal services office in the United States, founded in 1913. The bureau is one of three honors societies at the law school, along with the Harvard Law Review and the Board of Student Advisers . Notable members include Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan , Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick , activist and First Lady Michelle Obama , Attorney General Loretta Lynch , Berkshire Hathaway 's Charlie Munger and law professors Erwin Chemerinsky and Laurence Tribe . The bureau

133-603: The Columbia Law Review , the University of Pennsylvania Law Review , and the Yale Law Journal — publishes The Bluebook , the primary guide for legal citation formats in the United States. The Harvard 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. The establishment of the journal was largely due to

152-538: The Harvard Law Review stopped the publication of an article written by Rabea Eghbariah , a Palestinian student at Harvard Law. The online chairs of the Law Review had asked the Eghbariah to write an essay. The Intercept reported that the president of the Law Review , Apsara Iyer , with the support of a majority of the Law Review leadership, delayed the publication of the essay because of "safety concerns and

171-675: The Harvard Legal Aid Bureau include: Apsara Iyer Apsara Iyer is an American art crime investigator and the 137th president of the Harvard Law Review . She is the first Indian American woman to be elected to that position. Iyer was born in Chicago and raised in West Lafayette, Indiana . She attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and then Yale University , where she received

190-606: The United States Barack Obama (1991); its first openly gay president was Mitchell Reich (2011); its first Latino president was Andrew M. Crespo , who is now tenured as a professor at Harvard Law School. The first female African-American president, ImeIme Umana , was elected in 2017. Gannett House, a white building constructed in the Greek Revival style that was popular in New England during

209-612: The application of statutes of limitations in cultural property cases as a Chayes International Public Service Fellow. Prior to this, she was a volunteer researcher in the Trafficking Culture research consortium and at the University of Pennsylvania 's Penn Cultural Heritage Center. Amidst the 2023 Israel–Hamas war , two editors of the Harvard Law Review solicited an article by Harvard PhD candidate and human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah , which "argue[d] that

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228-465: The atrocities in Gaza amount to genocide " and that "the distinctive nature of the domination Palestinians have faced should demand a new category of crime: 'Nakba'." After the article was edited, fact-checked, and initially approved, Iyer intervened to stop its publication, citing safety concerns. After this, an emergency meeting of 100 editors of the Harvard Law Review was called and an anonymous vote

247-480: The desire to deliberate with editors." The Law Review ultimately did not publish the article, and it was later published in The Nation . 25 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." Harvard Legal Aid Bureau The Harvard Legal Aid Bureau ( HLAB )

266-536: The first woman to serve as the journal's president was Susan Estrich (1977), who later was active in Democratic 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 of Ropes & Gray ; its first African-American president was the 44th President of

285-403: The following general practice areas: housing law, family law, government benefits, and employment law. Students usually focus primarily on housing or family law. Within these practices, students work on matters such as eviction defense, domestic violence, child custody and support, divorce, social security benefits, wage and hour violations, and employment discrimination cases. Prominent alumni of

304-443: The illicit antiquities trade , and looted art . She has been instrumental in the return of numerous looted, stolen, and trafficked cultural objects to their countries of origin. She has been involved in the repatriation of cultural property to 15 different countries, amounting to the return of over 1,100 stolen cultural objects. In 2021, Iyer spent a summer working with Donna Yates at Maastricht University , researching

323-524: The mid-to-late 19th century, has been home to the Harvard Law Review since the 1920s. Before moving into Gannett House, the journal resided in the Law School's Austin Hall . Since the change of criteria in the 1970s, grades are no longer the primary basis of selection for editors. Membership in the Harvard Law Review is offered to select Harvard law students based on first-year grades and performance in

342-451: The other editors. It has been a long tradition since the first issue that the works of students published in the Harvard Law Review are called "notes" and they are unsigned as part of a policy reflecting "the fact that many members of the Review besides the author make a contribution to each published piece." In 2012, Harvard Law Review had 1,722 paid subscriptions. In November 2023,

361-490: The support of 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 on the basis of their grades; the president of the Review was the student with the highest academic rank. The first female editor of the journal was Priscilla Holmes (1953–1955, Volumes 67–68);

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