The writing competition for the Class of 2019 will begin on Saturday, May 13, after the completion of 1L final exams, and end on Saturday, May 20.

**If you would like to take the competition, but will not be on campus when the competition is distributed on Saturday, May 13, you may request that the competition materials be shipped to you via Federal Express. The cost for the mailing is $45.

In order to have the competition mailed to you, you must complete the FedEx shipping form by Friday, May 5. **

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worth 40% of the competition score, requires students to perform a technical and substantive edit of an excerpt from an unpublished article.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 Court of Appeals or State Supreme Court decision.

Please find here a tips packet containing the information offered at the tips sessions on April 13 and 20, plus some additional material. A video recording of the April 13 tips session can be found here, and a video of the April 20 session is here.

Information for Prospective Transfer Students
Unlike law reviews at many other schools, the Harvard Law Review does not reserve editorships for transfer students. Instead, prospective transfer students must write the competition in the spring of their 1L year — at the same time as Harvard Law School 1Ls. Transfer students are selected on the same blind grading basis as Harvard 1Ls and are eligible for 36 of the spots on the Review (in other words, all spots besides the 10 allotted to Harvard 1Ls for whom first-year grades play a role).

As noted on the Harvard Law School website, the deadline for completing a transfer application is June 15, so many prospective transfer students will not have been accepted to Harvard Law School at the time of the writing competition in May. Many prospective applicants may not even have decided whether to apply to transfer, in part because they may not yet know their spring semester grades. Notwithstanding these uncertainties, the Review strongly encourages prospective transfer applicants to participate in the writing competition. While being selected to join the Review in no way guarantees a transfer applicant admission to Harvard Law School, it is the policy of the Review to inform the admissions office whenever a transfer student successfully gains membership on the Review.

Information for SJD Students
SJD students at Harvard Law may serve as editors of the Law Review. To join, SJDs take the same writing competition as JD students and are eligible for 36 of the editorial positions (all spots besides those allotted to JD 1Ls for whom first-year grades play a role). Serving as an editor of the Law Review is a two-year commitment so SJDs should take the competition only if they are certain they have at least two years remaining in their program of study. Additionally, as with all candidates, SJDs are permitted to participate in the writing competition only once.

Information for Students with Disabilities
The Harvard Law Review provides accommodations on the writing competition to students with documented disabilities on an individual, case-by-case basis. To request an accommodation, please email a completed registration form to Jennifer Heath at lawrev@law.harvard.edu. Please submit your request as far in advance of the writing competition as possible. In order to allow sufficient time to review documentation, students are strongly encouraged to submit their requests no later than April 14.