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The Harvard Law Review published its first issue on April 15, 1887, making it one of the oldest operating student-edited law reviews in the United States.{{cite book |first=Lawrence M. |last=Friedman |title=A History of American Law |edition=3rd |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |year=2005 |page=481 |isbn=0684869888}} 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 of the Supreme Court of the United States.

From the 1880s to the 1970s, editors were selected on the basis of their grades; the president of the Review was the student with the highest academic rank. The first female editor of the journal was Priscilla Holmes (1953–1955, Volumes 67–68);{{cite journal |url=http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/bulletin/2011/summer/cn_03.php |first=Jill |last=Greenfield |title="She Rose Above Obstacles With Ease" Priscilla Holmes '55: 1924–2010 |journal=Harvard Law Bulletin |year=2011 }} the first woman to serve as the journal's president was Susan Estrich (1977), who later was active in Democratic Party politics and became the youngest woman to receive tenure at Harvard Law School; its first non-white ethnic minority president was Raj Marphatia (1988, Volume 101), who is now a partner at the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray;{{cite journal |url=http://harvardlawreview.org/1987/01/glimpses-of-its-history-as-seen-by-an-aficionado/ |first=Erwin N. |last=Griswold |title=The Harvard Law Review — Glimpses of Its History as Seen by an Aficionado |journal=Harvard Law Review: Centennial Album I |year=1987 |access-date=2012-05-02 }}{{cite web |url=http://hlrecord.org/?p=11306 |title=Women and Law Review: An Historical Overview |date=9 October 2003 |website=The Harvard Law Record |access-date=2013-07-18 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.ropesgray.com/rajmarphatia/ |title=Raj Marphatia: Biography |website=Ropes & Gray |access-date=2012-05-02 }} its first African-American president was the 44th President of the United States Barack Obama (1991);{{cite news |first=Fox |last=Butterfield |title=First Black Elected to Head Harvard's Law Review |date=February 6, 1990 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/06/us/first-black-elected-to-head-harvard-s-law-review.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 September 2017}}{{cite news |first=Jodi |last=Kantor |title=In Law School, Obama Found Political Voice |date=January 28, 2007 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/us/politics/28obama.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2008-01-04}} its first openly gay president was Mitchell Reich (2011);{{cite web |last=McKay |first=Caroline |title=Harvard Law Review Elects First Openly Gay President |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/2/8/reich-president-law-harvard/ |website=The Harvard Crimson |access-date=13 April 2011}} its first Latino president was Andrew M. Crespo, who is now tenured as a professor at Harvard Law School.{{cite web |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/2/6/first-hispanic-to-lead-harvard-law/ |title=First Hispanic To Lead Harvard Law Review |date=2007-02-06 |website=The Harvard Crimson}} The first female African-American president, ImeIme Umana, was elected in 2017.{{Cite web |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/harvard-law-review-elects-first-black-female-president/ar-AAmZmVI |title=Harvard Law Review Elects First Black Female President |website=MSN |access-date=2017-02-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216113735/http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/harvard-law-review-elects-first-black-female-president/ar-AAmZmVI |archive-date=2017-02-16 |url-status=dead}}

Gannett House, a white building constructed in the Greek Revival style that was popular in New England during the mid-to-late 19th century, has been home to the Harvard Law Review since the 1920s. Before moving into Gannett House, the journal resided in the Law School's Austin Hall.

Since the change of criteria in the 1970s, grades are no longer the primary basis of selection for editors. Membership in the Harvard Law Review is offered to select Harvard law students based on first-year grades and performance in a writing competition held at the end of the first year except for twelve slots that are offered on a discretionary basis.{{cite web |title=Harvard Law Review Membership Selection Policies |url=http://harvardlawreview.org/about/#membership |website=Harvard Law Review |access-date=July 9, 2014}}{{cite web |last=Obama |first=Barack |title=Review President Explains Affirmative Action Policy (letter) |date=30 October 2008 |url=http://hlrecord.org/?p=11263 |website=The Harvard Law Record |access-date=August 3, 2012}} The writing competition includes two components: an edit of an unpublished article and an analysis of a recent United States Supreme Court or Court of Appeals case. The writing competition submissions are graded blindly to assure anonymity.{{cite web |title=Prospective Transfer Students Applying for Membership |url=http://harvardlawreview.org/about/#competition |website=Harvard Law Review |access-date=July 9, 2014}} 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 twelve editors are selected on a discretionary basis. According to the law review's webpage, "Some of these discretionary slots may be used to implement the Review's affirmative action policy." The president of the Harvard Law Review is elected by the other editors.{{cite news |last=Seo |first=Jane |title=Tochilin '06 elected president of Harvard Law Review |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/2/7/tochilin-law-review-president/ |newspaper=The Harvard Crimson |date=February 7, 2012}}

It has been a long tradition since the first issue that the works of students published in the Harvard Law Review are called "notes" and they are unsigned as part of a policy reflecting "the fact that many members of the Review besides the author make a contribution to each published piece."{{cite web |url=https://harvardlawreview.org/about/ |title=About the Harvard Law Review |website=Harvard Law Review |language=en-US |access-date=2018-04-23}}

In 2012, Harvard Law Review had 1,722 paid subscriptions.{{Cite web |url=https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/the-nonsense-factory-the-making-and-breaking-of-the-american-legal-system.html |title=The Nonsense Factory: The Making and Breaking of the American Legal System |last=Cowen |first=Tyler |date=30 June 2019 |website=Marginal Revolution}}

In November 2023, the Harvard Law Review stopped the publication of a blog post written by Rabea Eghbariah, a Palestinian student at Harvard Law.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/nov/22/harvard-law-pro-palestinian-letter-gaza-israel-censorship |title=Harvard journal accused of censoring article alleging genocide in Gaza |newspaper=The Guardian |date=22 November 2023 |last1=Tait |first1=Robert}}{{Cite web |last=Lennard |first=Natasha |date=2023-11-22 |title=Harvard Law Review Editors Vote to Kill Article About Genocide in Gaza |url=https://theintercept.com/2023/11/21/harvard-law-review-gaza-israel/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=The Intercept |language=en-US}} The online chairs of the Law Review had asked the Eghbariah to write a blog post. The Intercept reported that the president of the Law Review, Apsara Iyer, with the support of a majority of the Law Review leadership, delayed the publication of the essay because of "safety concerns and the desire to deliberate with editors." The Law Review ultimately did not publish the blog post, and it was later published in The Nation.{{Cite news |last=Eghbariah |first=Rabea |date=2023-11-22 |title=The "Harvard Law Review" Refused to Run This Piece About Genocide in Gaza |language=en-US |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/harvard-law-review-gaza-israel-genocide/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |issn=0027-8378}} 25 Law Review editors criticized the decision not to publish the article, calling it an "unprecedented decision [that] threatens academic freedom and perpetuates the suppression of Palestinian voices."

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• Barack Obama, served as president of volume 104.{{cite web |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/23/politics/politico/main4201639.shtml |title=Obama Kept Law Review Balanced |last1=Smith |first1=Ben |last2=Ressner |first2=Jeffrey |name-list-style=amp |date=June 23, 2008 |website=CBS News |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518031930/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/23/politics/politico/main4201639.shtml |archive-date=2013-05-18 }}

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• Stephen Breyer, served as articles editor of volume 77.{{cite journal |url=http://cdn.harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/amar.pdf |title=Heller, HLR, and Holistic Legal Reasoning |last=Amar |first=Akhil Reed |date=November 1, 2008 |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=122 |number=1}}{{rp|182}}
• Felix Frankfurter.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eaAivaq6zVAC&pg=PA84 |last=Wiecek |first=William M. |date=2006 |title=The Birth of the Modern Constitution: The United States Supreme Court, 1941–1953 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=84|isbn=978-0-521-84820-6 }}
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg, served as editor for one year before transferring to Columbia Law School.{{rp|187}}
• Ketanji Brown Jackson, served as supervising editor of volume 109.{{cite web |url=http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/content/district-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson |title=District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson |website=United States District Court - District of Columbia |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210601140031/http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/content/district-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson |archive-date=2021-06-01}}
• Elena Kagan, served as supervising editor of volume 99.{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N6IxAAAAIAAJ&q=Elena+Kagan,+Supervising+Editor |title=Front Matter |date=1985 |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=99 |number=1 |page=119}}
• John G. Roberts Jr., served as managing editor for volume 92.{{rp|178}}
• Antonin Scalia, served as notes editor for volume 73.{{rp|147}}
• Edward Sanford.

• David J. Barron, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, served as articles editor.{{cite web |url=http://today.law.harvard.edu/senate-confirms-david-barron-u-s-court-appeals |title=Senate confirms David Barron for U.S. Court of Appeals |last=Riggs |first=Lizz |date=May 22, 2014 |website=Harvard Law Today}}
• Andrew L. Brasher, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
• Michael Boudin, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, served as president of volume 77.{{rp|182 n.141}}
• Henry Friendly, late judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, served as president.{{cite journal |url=http://www.law.nyu.edu/ecm_dlv/groups/public/@nyu_law_website__journals__law_review/documents/documents/ecm_dlv_015190.pdf |title=Judge Henry Friendly and the Mirror of Constitutional Law |last=Boudin |first=Michael |date=October 2007 |journal=New York University Law Review |volume=82 |number=4 |pages=975–983 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225232106/http://www.law.nyu.edu/ecm_dlv/groups/public/%40nyu_law_website__journals__law_review/documents/documents/ecm_dlv_015190.pdf |archive-date=2009-02-25}}
• Learned Hand, late judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, served as an editor but later resigned.
• Harris Hartz, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, served as case and developments editor.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NnnysOf9t38C&dq=harvard+law+review+harris+hartz&pg=PA24261 |title=Congressional Record |date=July 2009 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|isbn=978-0-16-085707-2 }}
• Gregory G. Katsas, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, executive editor of volume 102.
• William Kayatta, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jul-25-na-roberts25-story.html |title=Roberts Was Ready at Every Turn |last1=Serrano |first1=Richard A. |last2=Savage |first2=David G. |last3=Schmitt |first3=Richard B. |name-list-style=amp |date=July 25, 2005 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}
• Pierre Leval, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, served as notes editor.{{cite web |url=http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/Judgesbio.htm |title=Circuit Judges' Biographical Information |website=United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130210152921/http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/judgesbio.htm |archive-date=2013-02-10 }}
• Debra Ann Livingston, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
• James Kenneth Logan, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
• Kevin C. Newsom, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, articles editor of volume 110.
• James L. Oakes, late judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
• Nina Pillard, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.{{cite web|url=https://www.ncjw.org/ |title=NCJW: Leading Change Since 1893 |website=National Council of Jewish Women}}{{failed verification|date=September 2024}}
• Richard Posner, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, served as president of volume 75.{{rp|184}}
• Lawrence VanDyke, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

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• Dean Acheson, Secretary of State.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c_ORomNygLcC |editor-last=Mihalkanin |editor-first=Edward S. |last=Chace |first=James |author-link=James Chace |date=2004 |title=American Statesmen: Secretaries of State from John Jay to Colin Powell |chapter=Dean Acheson |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|isbn=978-0-313-30828-4 }}
• Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security and former judge on United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/articles/news/politics/2007/08/27/ten-things-you-didnt-know-about-michael-chertoff.html |title=Ten Things You Didn't Know About Michael Chertoff |last=O'Shea |first=Jennifer L. |date=August 27, 2007 |website=U.S. News & World Report}}
• William Coleman Jr., Secretary of Transportation, Brown v. Board of Education attorney, and first African-American Supreme Court clerk.{{cite web |url=http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2008/04/16_coleman.html |title=William T. Coleman Shares Stories From His 60-Year Legal Career |date=April 14, 2007 |website=Harvard Law School |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090715041716/http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2008/04/16_coleman.html |archive-date=2009-07-15}}
• Merrick Garland, 86th United States Attorney General; Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, served as articles editor.{{cite web |url=https://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2016/03/16/merrick-garland-would-make-harvard-law-the-majority-the-supreme-court/2LEg3GVlyJo3bqTJKTq5WM/story.html |title=Merrick Garland would give Harvard Law the majority on the Supreme Court |last=DeCosta-Klipa |first=Nik |date=March 16, 2017 |website=Boston.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321061403/https://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2016/03/16/merrick-garland-would-make-harvard-law-the-majority-the-supreme-court/2LEg3GVlyJo3bqTJKTq5WM/story.html |archive-date=2016-03-21}}
• Mike Pompeo, former US Secretary of State.
• Elliot Richardson, Attorney General, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Commerce, served as president (1947).{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E3DD1038F932A35752C0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2 |title=Elliot Richardson Dies at 79; Stood Up to Nixon and Resigned in 'Saturday Night Massacre' |last=Lewis |first=Neil A. |date=January 1, 2000 |newspaper=The New York Times}}

• Paul Clement, former U.S. Solicitor General, served as Supreme Court editor.{{cite web |url=http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/aboutosg/paul_d_clementbio.htm |title=Solicitor General Paul D. Clement |website=Office of the Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090104202752/http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/aboutosg/paul_d_clementbio.htm |archive-date=2009-01-04}}
• Archibald Cox, U.S. Solicitor General.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w9bRexrsgUYC&dq=%22Archibald+Cox%22+%22Harvard+Law+Review%22&pg=RA2-PA36 |title=Archibald Cox: Conscience of a Nation |last=Gormley |first=Ken |date=1999 |publisher=Addison-Wesley |pages=29–30|isbn=978-0-7382-0147-4 }}
• Christopher Cox, former chairman of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.{{cite web |url=https://www.sec.gov/about/commissioner/cox.htm |title=SEC Biography: Former Chairman Christopher Cox |website=Securities and Exchange Commission}}
• Ted Cruz, U.S. Senator from Texas.{{cite news|title=Ted Cruz 92 Sworn-in as U.S. Senator from Texas|author=Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs|url=http://wws.princeton.edu/node/11519|newspaper=Princeton University Bulletin|date=January 3, 2013|location=Princeton, New Jersey|access-date=January 14, 2025|archive-date=July 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150724025802/http://wws.princeton.edu/node/11519|url-status=dead}}
• Viet Dinh, former Assistant Attorney General, served as Bluebook editor.{{cite web |url=http://www.bancroftassociates.net/prof_vdinh.htm |title=Viet D. Dinh |website=Bancroft Associates PLLC |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223064459/http://www.bancroftassociates.net/prof_vdinh.htm |archive-date=2009-02-23}}
• Charles Evans Hughes Jr., former U.S. Solicitor General.{{cite web |url=https://www.justice.gov/osg/bio/charles-evans-hughes-jr |title=Solicitor General: Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. |website=Office of the Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice|date=23 October 2014 }}
• Michael Froman, U.S. Trade Representative, 2013-2017.{{cite web |url=https://ustr.gov/about-us/biographies-key-officials/united-states-trade-representative-michael-froman |title=United States Trade Representative: Michael Froman |website=Office of the United States Trade Representative |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130815004838/https://ustr.gov/about-us/biographies-key-officials/united-states-trade-representative-michael-froman |archive-date=2013-08-15}}
• Julius Genachowski, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.{{cite web |url=http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/julius-genachowski/ |title=Obama to Select Genachowski to Lead F.C.C. |last=Labaton |first=Stephen |date=January 13, 2009 |website=The Caucus |publisher=The New York Times}}
• Ian Gershengorn, former acting U.S. Solicitor General.{{cite web |url=https://today.law.harvard.edu/ian-gershengorn-93-named-deputy-assistant-attorney-general-at-usdoj/ |title=Ian Gershengorn '93 named deputy assistant attorney general at USDOJ |date=May 4, 2009 |website=Harvard Law Today}}
• Danielle Gray, former Cabinet Secretary.{{cite web |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/danielle-gray |title=White House Author: Danielle Gray |website=The White House |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124065616/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/danielle-gray |archive-date=2020-11-24}}
• Erwin N. Griswold, a dean of the Harvard Law School and Solicitor General under presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon.
• Alger Hiss, former U.S. State Department official and alleged spy.{{cite magazine |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,888531,00.html |title=The Judiciary: Your Witness, Mr. Murphy |date=July 4, 1949 |magazine=Time |volume=LIV |number=1 }}
• Ron Klain, Chief of staff to Vice Presidents Al Gore and Joe Biden, Chief of Staff to the 46th president of the United States Joe Biden.
• Christopher Landau, former United States Ambassador to Mexico, served as articles editor.{{Cite web |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/116th-congress/523 |title=PN523 — Christopher Landau — Department of State |date=August 1, 2019 |website=United States Congress |access-date= August 5, 2019}}
• Michael Leiter, former Director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center,{{cite web |url=https://www.dni.gov/index.php/nctc-home |title=National Counterterrorism Center |website=Office Of The Director Of National Intelligence}} president of volume 113.{{cite web |url=http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/02.25/news.html |title=News Makers: Leiter Elected President of Harvard Law Review |date=February 25, 1999 |website=The Harvard Gazette |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418105720/http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/02.25/news.html |archive-date=2016-04-18}}
• David S. Mann, former U.S. Representative from Ohio, served as editor.{{cite web |title=Council Member David Mann |url=https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/council/council-members/council-member-david-mann/ |website=City of Cincinnati |access-date=December 30, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210327195120/https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/council/council-members/council-member-david-mann/ |archive-date=March 27, 2021}}
• Mark S. Martins, Brigadier General in the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, Chief Prosecutor of Military Commissions.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/pentagon-names-new-guantanamo-prosecutor/2011/06/23/AGlp73hH_story.html |title=Pentagon names new Guantanamo prosecutor |first=Peter |last=Finn |date=June 23, 2011 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}
• Bernard Nussbaum, former White House Counsel, served as notes editor.{{cite web |url=https://www.wlrk.com/attorney/bwnussbaum/ |title=In Memory of Bernard W. Nussbaum |website=Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz}}
• F. Whitten Peters, former Secretary of the Air Force, served as president.{{cite web |url=https://www.wc.com/wpeters |title=Senior Counsel: F. Whitten Peters |website=Williams & Connolly}}
• Edith Ramirez, chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/business/obama-set-to-appoint-edith-ramirez-to-fill-top-ftc-post.html |title=White House Elevates a Commissioner to Chairwoman of the F.T.C. |last=Wyatt |first=Edward |date=February 28, 2013 |newspaper=The New York Times}}
• Rod Rosenstein, U.S. Deputy Attorney General.
• Jamie Raskin, U.S. Representative from Maryland.
• Robert A. Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio.{{cite web |url=http://today.law.harvard.edu/letter-to-the-editor/the-review-and-the-white-house-in-review/ |title=Letter to the Editor: The review and the White House, in review |date=July 1, 2009 |website=Harvard Law Today}}
• Barry B. White, United States Ambassador to Norway, 2009–2013.{{cite web |url=http://norway.usembassy.gov/formerambassadors.html |title=Ambassador Barry B. White |website=Embassy of the United States Oslo, Norway |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150102011317/http://norway.usembassy.gov/formerambassadors.html |archive-date=2015-01-02}}
• Robert L. Deitz, former General Counsel for the National Security Agency and Senior Counsel to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, served as notes editor and Supreme Court Note.{{Cite web |url=https://schar.gmu.edu/about/faculty-directory/robert-l-deitz |title=Robert L. Deitz |website=Schar School of Policy and Government |access-date=2020-09-07}}

• Preeta D. Bansal, former New York State Solicitor General, served as supervising editor.{{cite web |url=http://www.skadden.com/index.cfm?contentID=45&bioID=4359 |title=Preeta D. Bansal, Partner |website=Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090102034932/http://www.skadden.com/index.cfm?contentID=45&bioID=4359 |archive-date=2009-01-02}}
• Allan Gotlieb, former Canadian Ambassador to the United States.{{cite web |url=http://www.trilateral.org/membship/bios/ag.htm |title=Allan E. Gotlieb |website=The Trilateral Commission |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061114022055/http://www.trilateral.org/membship/bios/ag.htm |archive-date=2006-11-14}}
• Eliot Spitzer, former Governor of New York.{{cite web |url=http://www.slate.com/id/2108509/ |title=Eliot Spitzer: How New York's attorney general became the most powerful man on Wall Street |last=Gross |first=Daniel |date=October 21, 2004 |website=Slate}}
• Robert Stanfield, former Premier of the Province of Nova Scotia, and former leader of Canada's Official Opposition. He was the Review's first Canadian editor in the late 1930s.{{cite news |last=Fraser |first=Graham |title=The best PM Canada never had |newspaper=The Toronto Star |date=2003-12-18 |page=A10}}

• Stephen Barnett, legal scholar at University of California, Berkeley School of Law who opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/us/22barnett.html |title=Stephen Barnett, a Leading Legal Scholar, Dies at 73 |last=Grimes |first=William |date=October 21, 2009 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=October 22, 2009}}
• Alexander Bickel, late professor at Yale Law School.
• Derek Bok, former president of Harvard University.{{cite web |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1971/1/11/its-official-derek-bok-pthe-harvard/ |title=It's Official: Derek Bok |last=Odonoghae |first=Mark H. |date=January 11, 1971 |website=The Harvard Crimson}}
• Kingman Brewster, former president of Yale University, served as treasurer.{{cite web |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE5D6143CF93AA35752C1A96E948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all |title=Kingman Brewster Jr., 69, Ex-Yale President and U.S. Envoy, Dies |last=Pace |first=Eric |date=November 9, 1988 |newspaper=The New York Times}}
• Amy Chua, professor at Yale Law School, served as executive editor.{{cite web |url=http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/AChua.htm |title=Faculty |website=Yale Law School |access-date=18 November 2014}}
• Stephen J. Friedman, president of Pace University.{{cite web |url=https://www.pace.edu/president/meet-president-krislov |title=Office of the President: Meet President Krislov |website=Pace University}}
• John H. Garvey, president of The Catholic University of America.{{cite web |url=https://president.catholic.edu/meet-president-garvey/index.html |title=Meet President Garvey |website=The Catholic University of America |access-date=2019-11-15 |archive-date=2018-06-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626083429/http://president.cua.edu/history.cfm |url-status=dead}}
• I. Glenn Cohen, professor at Harvard Law School.
• Annette Gordon-Reed, professor at Harvard Law School and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History.{{cite web |url=http://today.law.harvard.edu/annette-gordon-reed-84-to-join-the-harvard-faculty |title=Annette Gordon-Reed '84 to join the Harvard faculty |date=April 30, 2010 |website=Harvard Law Today}}
• Robert A. Gorman (born 1937), law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
• Charles Hamilton Houston, former Dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP Litigation Director.{{cite web |url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/houston/housbio.htm |title=Biography of Charles Hamilton Houston |website=Cornell Law School}}
• Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, professor at Yale Law School.
• John Honnold (1915–2011), law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
• Harold Koh, former Dean of Yale Law School.{{cite web |url=http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/HKoh.htm |title=Our Faculty: Harold Hongju Koh |website=Yale Law School|date=16 September 2024 }}
• David Leebron, president of Rice University, served as president.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.rice.edu/sallyport/2004/winter/sallyport/meetleebron.html |title=Meet David Lebron, President-Elect of Rice University |last=Shepard |first=Terry |date=Winter 2004 |magazine=Sallyport |volume=60 |number=2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040823160254/http://www.rice.edu/sallyport/2004/winter/sallyport/meetleebron.html |archive-date=2004-08-23}}
• Lance Liebman, former Dean of Columbia Law School, served as president.{{cite web |url=http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/Lance_Liebman |title=Lance Liebman |website=Columbia Law School}}
• Kenneth Mack, professor and historian at Harvard Law School.
• William C. Powers, former president of University of Texas, served as managing editor.{{cite web |url=http://www.utexas.edu/president/bio.html |title=Biography: William Powers Jr. |website=Office of the President, University of Texas |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112195637/http://www.utexas.edu/president/bio |archive-date=2015-01-12}}
• Stephen Schulhofer (born 1942), professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and NYU Law School.
• John Sexton, former president of New York University.{{cite news |url=https://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/07/21/to_many_he_is_a_quiet_conservative/ |title=To many, he is a quiet conservative |last1=Easton |first1=Nina J. |last2=Cullen |first2=Kevin |name-list-style=amp |date=July 21, 2005 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060207061124/https://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/07/21/to_many_he_is_a_quiet_conservative/ |archive-date=2006-02-07}}
• James Vorenberg, former dean of Harvard Law School, served as president.{{cite web |url=http://today.law.harvard.edu/professor-james-vorenberg-ninth-dean-of-hls/ |title=Professor James Vorenberg, Ninth Dean of HLS |date=April 12, 2000 |website=Harvard Law Today}}
• Michael K. Young, president of Texas A&M University.{{cite web |url=http://today.tamu.edu/2015/02/03/michael-k-young-named-sole-finalist-for-president-of-texas-am/ |title=Michael K. Young Named Sole Finalist For President Of Texas A&M |last=McDevitt |first=Therese |date=February 3, 2015 |website=Texas A&M}}

• Bennett Boskey, law clerk to Judge Learned Hand and two U.S. Supreme Court justices.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bennett-boskey-washington-lawyer-dies-at-99/2016/06/01/2498b57e-2697-11e6-b989-4e5479715b54_story.html |title=Bennet Boskey, Washington lawyer, dies at 99 |last=Barnes |first=Bart |date=June 1, 2016 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}
• Joe Flom, noted M&A attorney and name partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.{{cite web |url=http://today.law.harvard.edu/joseph-h-flom-48-1923-2011/ |title=Joseph H. Flom '48 (1923–2011) |date=February 25, 2011 |website=Harvard Law Today}}
• John B. Quinn, founder and name partner of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan.{{cite web |url=https://www.quinnemanuel.com/attorneys/quinn-john-b |title=John B. Quinn |website=Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP}}
• Kenneth Chesebro, participant in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, indicted by the state of Georgia in the scheme to alter results of the 2020 election for US president, the Trump fake electors plot.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/16/kenneth-cheseboro-trump-indictment-fake-electors/ |title=The 'brains' behind fake Trump electors was once a liberal Democrat |last=Stanley Becker |first=Isaac |date=August 16, 2023 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}
• Andrew Schlafly, founder of Conservapedia.
• Hagan Scotten, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York

• Phil Graham, former publisher of The Washington Post.{{cite web |url=https://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/mep/displaydoc.cfm?docid=erpn-phigra |title=Philip Graham (1915-1963) |date=2006 |website=The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers |publisher=George Washington University}}
• Archibald MacLeish, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/n80015459/archibald-macleish-1892-1982-2/ |title=Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) |website=Library of Congress}}
• Cliff Sloan, former publisher of Slate.{{cite web |url=https://www.worldaffairs.org/event-calendar/speaker-directory/cliff-sloan |title=Cliff Sloan |date=10 October 2007 |website=World Affairs Council of Northern California |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160323215924/https://www.worldaffairs.org/event-calendar/speaker-directory/cliff-sloan |archive-date=2016-03-23}}
• Jeffrey Toobin, print and broadcast journalist.{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/toobin.jeffrey.html |title=Anchors/Reporters – Jeffrey Toobin |website=CNN |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201101227/http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/toobin.jeffrey.html |archive-date=2013-02-01}}
• George Ezra Dane, co-founder of the resurrected fraternal organization "E Clampus Vitus",{{cite web |url=https://ecvinc.org/ |title=Home |website=The Grand Council of E Clampus Vitus}} and author of Ghost Town.

• David Bonderman, co-founder of private equity firm TPG Capital.{{cite web |url=http://www.privcap.com/bios/david-bonderman-tpg/ |title=David Bonderman, Founder Partner – TPG Capital |website=Privcap |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160323093319/http://www.privcap.com/bios/david-bonderman-tpg/ |archive-date=2016-03-23}}
• Norman Dorsen, former American Civil Liberties Union president.{{cite web |url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/spring13/alumni_news2 |title=Alumni News: A Passion for Civil Liberties |last=Jacobs |first=Valerie Seiling |date=Spring 2013 |website=Columbia College Today |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130324012206/https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/spring13/alumni_news2#.UU5VQ3nP32c |archive-date=2013-03-24}}
• Jeff Kindler, former CEO of Pfizer.{{cite web |url=http://www.pfizer.com/about/history/jeffrey_kindler |title=Jeff Kindler |website=Pfizer}}
• Alfred Lee Loomis, financier, scientist, and inventor.{{cite web |url=http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/loomis-alfred.pdf |title=Alfred Lee Loomis: A Biographical Memoir |last=Alvarez |first=Luis |website=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=December 10, 2019}}
• Rob Manfred, commissioner of Major League Baseball, served as articles editor.{{cite web |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/about_mlb/executives.jsp?bio=manfred_rob |title=Official Info: Rob Manfred |website=Major League Baseball}}
• Adebayo Ogunlesi, chairman and managing partner of Global Infrastructure Partners.{{cite web |url=http://venturesafrica.com/the-man-who-bought-gatwick-airport/ |title=The Man Who Bought Gatwick Airport |date=May 26, 2012 |website=Ventures Africa}}
• Harvey Schein, former president and chief executive of the Sony Corporation of America.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/technology/15schein.html |title=Harvey Schein, Promoter of Betamax at Sony, Dies at 80 |last=Weber |first=Bruce |date=May 15, 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times}}
• Nadine Strossen, former American Civil Liberties Union president.{{cite web |url=http://www.nyls.edu/faculty/faculty_profiles/nadine_strossen |title=Faculty Profiles: Nadine Strossen |website=New York Law School}}

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