Forum & Responses

ABOUT THE FORUM

Welcome to the Harvard Law Review Forum.

It has been our experience that short Responses to our Articles often add a great deal of value to the Review, and to the Articles themselves. However, the constraints of the publication process make it impossible for us to publish as many Responses, in as timely a manner, as we would like. The Forum is an online extension of our printed pages that is intended to allow for a more robust scholarly discussion of our Articles.

In addition to allowing us to publish more timely Responses, the Forum also allows scholars to contribute ideas that may not lend themselves to the traditional law review format. To that end, Forum Responses should be approximately 3000 words long, and should be lightly footnoted and sourced in comparison to traditional Articles. However, they are subject to the same editorial standards as the material that appears in our printed volume.

Responses appearing in the Forum are permanently published on our website as Adobe PDF files, and are available on the Lexis and Westlaw databases. The Forum is formatted and paginated like our printed volume, and should be cited as follows:

Jane Smith, Response Title,
120 Harv. L. Rev. F. 1 (2006),
www.harvardlawreview.org/forum/
issues/120/dec06/author.pdf.

The Forum may feature multiple Responses to each Article in the Review. Responses are published on a rolling basis; we invite you to follow the conversations as they unfold.

How to Submit a Response

We accept essays responding to Articles appearing in the December 2006 Issue of the Law Review and all subsequent Issues (we cannot accept responses to student pieces, book reviews, or Articles published before December 2006). Contributors may submit their essays through our electronic submission system, preferably in Microsoft Word format.