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published at

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. The journal publishes articles, notes, and comments on subjects relating to

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, land-use law, and the regulation of natural resources.

History and overview

The ''Harvard Environmental Law Review'' was founded in 1976 by Harvard Law School students Deborah Williams, James McDaniel, and Alan Gabbay; at the time, it was the school's fifth law journal. In a preface to the inaugural issue, former Harvard Law School dean

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wrote that one of the journal's goals was to "raise questions" about whether environmental progress "conforms to an intelligent and coherent set of goals." The founding editors explained that the goal of the inaugural issue was to cover recent developments in environmental law and policy. However, in its early years, the journal shifted its focus toward a wider range of topics because "it was too ambitious to ask students to research and write a comprehensive overview of recent developments every year."

Impact

In 2016,

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's Law Journal Rankings placed the journal as the top-ranked environmental, natural resources, and land use law journal according to combined score, impact factor, and journal citations."Law Journals: Submission and Ranking, 2008–2015,"
Washington & Lee University (Accessed November 7, 2016). In his 1998 assessment of environmental law journals, Gregory Scott Crespi described the ''Harvard Environmental Law Review'' as a "leading journal" in its field. The journal has been cited legal treatises, including ''

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, and the '' Restatement (Third) of Property''.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted or indexed in

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Journal Finder: Harvard Environmental Law Review
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's Current Index to Legal Periodicals. Tables of contents are also available through Infotrieve and

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, and the journal posts past issues on its website.
Print Archives
(Accessed November 7, 2016).

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