The ''Harvard Journal on Legislation'' is a journal of legal scholarship published by students at

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Overview

The ''Harvard Journal on Legislation'' publishes articles analyzing legislation and the legislative process. The ''Journal'' specializes in articles focusing on the organizational and procedural factors affecting the efficiency and effectiveness of legislative decisionmaking. In particular, the ''Journal'' aims to publish articles that address legislative reform or that examine public policy problems of nationwide significance and propose legislation to resolve such problems. Articles are written by leading academics and practitioners, as well as by Harvard Law School students. The ''Journal'' biannual Congress Issue includes policy essays written by sitting members of the

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. The ''Journal'' is generally ranked among the top 50 most influential student-edited law journals. The ''Harvard Journal on Legislation'' is published semiannually (Winter and Summer) by Harvard Law School students. Additionally, the ''Journal'' holds an annual Symposium featuring discussion of a policy issue of national significance. Student editors need not participate in a competition to join the ''Journal'', though senior ''Journal'' editors are selected largely through an application and interviewing process. Upper-level masthead positions are filled by election. The ''Harvard Journal on Legislation'' maintains an office on the Harvard Law School campus in Wasserstein Hall.

History

The ''Harvard Journal on Legislation'' published its first issue in 1964. The ''Journal''—along with the '' Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review'' and the '' Harvard International Law Journal''—was founded by Harvard Law School Dean

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to provide students who were not members of the ''

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'' with an opportunity to gain similar writing and editing experience. The ''Harvard Journal on Legislation'' was originally affiliated with the Harvard Student Legislative Research Bureau at Harvard Law School. In addition to printing articles written on legislative matters by academics, attorneys in private practice, and government officials, the ''Journal'' published draft statutes and accompanying analyses prepared by student members of the Harvard Student Legislative Research Bureau. By 1969, the ''Journal'' had expanded beyond the Legislative Research Bureau to become "a full-scale law review operation." It also became the first of the Harvard Law School Journals to accept first-year students as members of its staff.''Id.''
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External links

Official website
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