Harvard law review is a monthly law review journal that is student-operated and highly prestigious. The history of the Review goes back to the year 1887 when it made its first publication. The core objective of the publication is to provide an academic platform for legal knowledge.

In its history, the review has had presidents with the most brilliant law minds and who are shaping the country’s jurisprudence to date. Some of its alumni are the late Antonin Scalia for 73rd volume who until his death served at the US supreme court.

In its 104th year, the review made history by electing for the first time a Black president; Barack Obama, the current president of United States. He headed the publication of the Reviews’ volume 104.The young Barack, 28 years old at the time, in an interview, stated that his vision for the review was to make it a platform for debate.

He further alluded poverty and being brought up in drug environment as the reasons Black students miss an opportunity as his, though they are equally or more talented.

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