The Harvard Environmental Law Review is a student-run law review published at Harvard Law School. The journal publishes articles, notes, and comments on subjects relating to environmental law, land-use law, and the regulation of natural resources., Additional Information for Harvard Environmental Law Journal (Accessed November 7, 2016); see also , Journals and Publications (Accessed November 7, 2016).
History and overview The Harvard Environmental Law Review was founded in 1976 by Harvard Law School students Deborah Williams, James McDaniel, and Alan Gabbay;Bonnie Docherty, 25 Years or HELR: The Invention and Reinvention of Environmental Law, 25 323, 328 (2001). at the time, it was the school's fifth law journal.Albert M. Sacks, Preface, 1 xv, xv (1976). In a preface to the inaugural issue, former Harvard Law School dean Albert Sacks wrote that one of the journal's goals was to "raise questions" about whether environmental progress "conforms to an intelligent and coherent set of goals."Albert M. Sacks, Preface, 1 xv, xvi (1976). The founding editors explained that the goal of the inaugural issue was to cover recent developments in environmental law and policy.Introduction, 1 xvii, xx (1976). However, in its early years, the journal shifted its focus toward a wider range of topics because "it was too ambitious to ask students to research and write a comprehensive overview of recent developments every year."Bonnie Docherty, 25 Years or HELR: The Invention and Reinvention of Environmental Law, 25 323, 328 (2001) (internal citation omitted).
Impact In 2016, Washington and Lee University's Law Journal Rankings placed the journal as the top-ranked environmental, natural resources, and land use law journal according to combined score, impact factor, and journal citations."Law Journals: Submission and Ranking, 2008–2015," Washington & Lee University (Accessed November 7, 2016). In his 1998 assessment of environmental law journals, Gregory Scott Crespi described the Harvard Environmental Law Review as a "leading journal" in its field.Gregory Scott Crespi, Ranking the Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, and Land Use Planning Journals: A Survey of Expert Opinion, 23 273, 298 (1998) The journal has been cited in legal treatises, including American Jurisprudence,See, e.g., Eric C. Surette, 61 , Plant and Job Safety § 40. American Law Reports,See, e.g., Lora A. Lucero, Construction and Application of the Cooperation with States Requirement under Sec. 6 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, 16 U.S.C.A. § 1535, 8 A.L.R. Fed. 3d Art. 3. and the Restatement (Third) of Property., Modification and Termination of a Conservation Servitude Because of Changed Conditions, § 7.11 (2000).
Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted or indexed in EBSCO databases, HeinOnline, LexisNexis, Westlaw,, Journal Finder: Harvard Environmental Law Review (Accessed November 7, 2016). Scopus,, Source Details for Harvard Environmental Law Review (Accessed August 4, 2024). and the University of Washington's Current Index to Legal Periodicals., Periodicals Indexed in CLIP (Accessed November 7, 2016). Tables of contents are also available through Infotrieve and Ingenta, and the journal posts past issues on its website., Print Archives (Accessed November 7, 2016).
See also List of law journals List of environmental law journals
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