Harvard Civil Rights–Civil Liberties Law Review

The Harvard Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Law Review is a student-run law review published by Harvard Law School.[2] The journal is published two times per year and contains articles, essays, and book reviews concerning civil rights and liberties.[3] As of 2014, it was the leading progressive law journal in the United States.[4] In 2009, its online companion Amicus was launched, which features standard length journal articles coupled with online responses.[5] In 2018, the journal launched its podcast, Taking Liberties, which features panel discussions on current events related to civil rights and civil liberties, interviews with scholars and practitioners who fight for them, and tributes to those who have contributed to the advancement of civil rights throughout history.[6]

Harvard Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Law Review
DisciplineLaw review
LanguageEnglish
Edited bySararose Gaines, Natassia Velez, Amy Frieder, Billy Roberts[1]
Publication details
History1966-present
Publisher
FrequencyBiannually
1.185 (2016)
Standard abbreviations
BluebookHarv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev.
ISO 4Harv. Civ. Rights-Civ. Liberties Law Rev.
Indexing
ISSN0017-8039 (print)
2153-2389 (web)
LCCNsn82005086
OCLC no.06031621
Links

History

The journal was established in Spring 1966 by students Spencer H. Boyer (later Professor and Associate Dean at Howard Law School), Joseph Meisser, and Frank Parker in the wake of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.[7] The funds for the establishing the journal, a figure of $600 as requested by Boyer, were granted after a short meeting with Harvard Law School Dean Ervin Griswold. In their first issue the editors of the new publication wrote that the review "is an emblem and achievement of the collaboration" between the Harvard Civil Liberties Research Service, the Law Students Civil Rights Research Council, and the Harvard Civil Rights Committee, three newly formed organizations that had recently noticed the dearth of legal material on civil rights:

Still, there is today hardly a journal which regularly and completely dedicates its pages to the civil rights revolution and the modern manifestations of the relation between citizen and state. Nor is there any review steadily providing Southern lawyers with library ammunition. Nor does any publication capitalize on the burgeoning interest in rights and liberties among this new generation of law students. Nor does any review endeavor to link together the students and faculties of the various law schools in such a cooperative enterprise.

These are among our aims.

But most important. Ours is to be a review of revolutionary law. Such an ideal is as new as United Nation Declarations on Human Rights and as old as the "Grand Tradition" of Common Law fashioning causes of action to rights and wrongs.[8]

In its 35th anniversary issue, legal academic Morton Horowitz wrote that the journal "seeks to catalyze progressive thought and dialogue through publishing innovative legal scholarship from various perspectives and in diverse fields of study."[9]

Notable alumni

Notable articles
  • Brest, Paul A. (1966). "The Federal Government's Power to Protect Negroes and Civil Rights Workers Against Privately Inflicted Harm". Harv. Civ. Rights-Civ. Liberties Law Rev. 1.
  • Nader, Ralph (1970). "Freedom from Information: The Act and the Agencies". Harv. Civ. Rights-Civ. Liberties Law Rev. 5: 53.
  • Murray, Pauli (1971). "The Negro Woman's Stake in the Equal Rights Amendment". Harv. Civ. Rights-Civ. Liberties Law Rev. 6.
  • Tribe, Laurence (1975). "Structural Due Process". Harv. Civ. Rights-Civ. Liberties Law Rev. 10.
  • Baker Motley, Constance (1979). "From Brown to Bakke: The Long Road to Equality". Harv. Civ. Rights-Civ. Liberties Law Rev. 14.
  • Delgado, Richard (1982). "Words That Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-Calling". Harv. Civ. Rights-Civ. Liberties Law Rev. 17.
  • MacKinnon, Catherine (1985). "Pornography, Civil Rights and Speech". Harv. Civ. Rights-Civ. Liberties Law Rev. 20: 1.
  • Stevenson, Bryan (2006). "Confronting Mass Imprisonment and Restoring Fairness to Collateral Review of Criminal Cases". Harv. Civ. Rights-Civ. Liberties Law Rev. 41.
  • Ho, Dale (2015). "Two Fs for Formalism: Interpreting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in Light of Changing Demographics and Electoral Patterns". Harv. Civ. Rights-Civ. Liberties Law Rev. 50.

References
  1. "Editorial Board | Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review".
  2. "Journals and Publications". Retrieved 2010-02-23.
  3. "Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review Home page". Retrieved 2010-02-23.
  4. "Best law reviews: Stanford tops list | the National Jurist". 7 March 2014.
  5. "Online Supplement to Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review". Retrieved 2010-02-23.
  6. "Podcast | Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review".
  7. "A journal dedicated to promoting 'revolutionary law'". Retrieved 2021-02-24.
  8. "Preface". Harv. Civ. Rights-Civ. Liberties Law Rev. 1: iii. 1966.
  9. Horowitz, Morton (2002). "A Brief History of the Harvard Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review". Harv. Civ. Rights-Civ. Liberties Law Rev. 37: 259.
  10. "President Obama Nominates Judge Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr. for the Third Circuit, and Judge Beverly B. Martin for United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | The White House". whitehouse.gov. 19 June 2009. Retrieved 2010-02-23 – via National Archives.
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