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The Harvard Law Review is a journal of legal scholarship published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School .

According to the Journal Citation Reports. the Review is the most cited law review and has the second-highest impact factor in the category "law" after the Columbia Law Review. It is published monthly from November through June, with the November issue dedicated to covering the previous year's Supreme Court Term. The Review is also published online. In addition, it publishes the online-only Harvard Law Review Forum. a rolling journal of scholarly responses to the main journal's content.

The Harvard Law Review published its first issue on April 15, 1887, and is the oldest operating student-edited law review in the United States. The establishment of the journal was largely due to the support of Louis Brandeis. then a recent Harvard Law School alumnus and Boston attorney who would later go on to become a Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. The first female editor of the Review was Priscilla Holmes (1953-1955, Volumes 67-68); the first woman to serve as the Reviews president was Susan Estrich (1978) who went on to become active in Democratic Party politics and the youngest woman to receive tenure at Harvard Law School; its first minority president was Raj Marphatia (1987, Volume 101), who is now a partner at the Boston law firm of Ropes Gray; [1] its first African-American president was Barack Obama (1991); [2] its first openly gay president is current president Mitchell Reich (). [3]

The Harvard Law Review headquarters, Gannett House, is located on the Harvard Law School campus. It is a white building constructed in the Greek Revival style that was popular in New England during the mid-to-late 19th century. Before moving into Gannett House in 1925, the Harvard Law Review resided in the Law School's Austin Hall .

Fourteen editors (two from each 1L section) are selected based on a combination of their first-year grades and their competition scores. Twenty editors are selected based solely on their competition scores. The remaining editors are selected on a discretionary basis.