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Friday, May 9 is the last day to sign up for Federal Express delivery of the competition for those
taking the competition away from Cambridge
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Membership in the Harvard Law Review is limited to second- and third-year
law students who are selected on the basis of their performance on an
annual writing competition. Harvard Law School students who are
interested in joining the Review must write the competition at the end of
their 1L year, even if they plan to take time off during law school or are
pursuing a joint degree and plan to spend a year at another Harvard
graduate school. Students who spend their 1L year at other law schools and are applying to transfer to HLS must write the competition in the spring before they enter HLS as 2Ls. (More specific information for prospective transfer students can be found here.)
In recent years, the number of students completing the competition
has ranged from 200 to 255. Between 41 and 43 students are invited
to join the Review each year.
Fourteen editors (two from each 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 editors are selected on a discretionary
basis. Some of these discretionary slots may be used to implement the
Review's affirmative action policy.
The competition consists of two parts. The subcite portion of the
competition, worth 40% of the competition score, requires students to
perform a technical and substantive edit of an excerpt from an unpublished
article. The case comment portion of the competition, worth 60% of the
competition score, requires students to describe and analyze a recent
U.S. Supreme Court or Court of Appeals decision. You may view a video recording of a 2008 presentation explaining the contents of the competition here. (You will need Real Player 10 to view the video.)
The 2008 writing competition will begin on Friday, May 16, after the completion of 1L
final exams, and will end on Friday, May 23. Students are not required to remain on campus during the competition.
Students who take the competition will be notified of the results in late
July. Those students who are selected to join the Review must return to
Cambridge by August 11 to begin work on the first issue
of Volume 122.
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