Return to the Westlaw home page and scroll down to the second box where you will see a tab for "Favorites." You should see the journals listed under "Peer Journals" in the "Favorites" section. You'll be returned to the Add to Favorites box where you can check the box for Peer Journals and click Save to add Harvard Law Review.Ĥ. Repeat the process for the Yale Law Journal, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the Columbia Law Review, as well as your own law journal.ĥ. In the popup, click the "Create New Group" button and type in the new Group Name "Peer Journals," then Save. Once on the Harvard Law Review page, look under the journal name for the star icon click "Add to Favorites."ģ. After logging in, search for Harvard Law Review in the universal search bar at the top of the page as you type, the journal name will autopopulate as a suggestion and you can click on it.Ģ. To easily search the content of other law journals for your source, you may wish to create a group of peer journals on Westlaw:ġ.
Of course, the editors of these law journals may have been incorrect in their decision on how to properly cite the source, but it is still often helpful to see how other editors have interpreted the rules. For guidance, one trick is to look at the practices of the law reviews that edit The Bluebook ( Columbia Law Review, Harvard Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and Yale Law Journal) as well as the past practices of your law journal to see how they have cited your source in previously published articles.
4114 or Law Review's Editor in Chief, Courtney Arena, may be reached at 21 ext.You will encounter some citations that do not seem similar to any of the examples provided in The Bluebook. The Law Review’s Faculty Publisher, Michelle Zierler, may be reached at 21 or Law Review’s Managing Editor, Tara Holzer, may be reached at 21 ext. The Law Review can also be reached by email at Our fax number is 21. You may contact the New York Law School Law Review at: The Law Review is cited as, e.g., 63 N.Y.L. Citations in the Law Review generally conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (20th ed.
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