While the first edition of the Harvard Law Review published “Notes” that were just that — literally notes taken during classroom lectures — today, these student-written pieces have evolved to offer in-depth analysis on a particular legal topic, usually by third-year students.
Vol. 139 No. 8 Originalism — a school of constitutional interpretation defined by the pursuit of the Constitution’s original meaning — has long been celebrated and criticized for its forceful prescriptions for...
Vol. 139 No. 8 The Supreme Court has developed an increasingly pronounced reliance on Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, as an authoritative voice...
Vol. 139 No. 8 Over the past decade, economic intervention by the executive branch in the name of national security has become increasingly salient. It has also taken...
Vol. 139 No. 8 Introduction The current scope of global access to assisted dying is unprecedented. It is also expanding. Assisted dying is legal in fifteen countries and...
Vol. 139 No. 7 In Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College. (SFFA), the Supreme Court invalidated the race-based affirmative action programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina (UNC) under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The SFFA majority held that the programs could not survive strict scrutiny: The universities’ interests in their affirmative action programs were not sufficiently compelling...
Vol. 139 No. 7 “Not being a State often places the District of Columbia at a disadvantage. In this case, however, it works to its benefit.” So began...
Vol. 139 No. 7 The Supreme Court promises that government action is illegitimate if it “lack[s] any purpose other than a ‘bare . . . desire to harm a politically unpopular group.’”...
Vol. 139 No. 7 Organized labor is in crisis. Despite recent polling showing higher levels of public support for unions than at any time since the 1960s, the...
Vol. 139 No. 5 Religious freedom claimants have achieved tremendous success before the Supreme Court in recent years. Yet free exercise jurisprudence has bounced between skepticism and embrace...
Vol. 139 No. 5 All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States . . . . — U.S. Const. art. I, § 1 Typically, when Congress...
