From harvard-law-review-skills
Routes Harvard Law Review submissions through the student-edited law-review process by lifecycle stage, from topic selection to placement and editing.
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The orchestrator for a Harvard Law Review submission. HLR is **student-edited, not peer-reviewed**, and
The orchestrator for a Harvard Law Review submission. HLR is student-edited, not peer-reviewed, and generalist across all of law. The router's first job is to set the right mental model: you write a near-final article, run a preemption check before drafting, place it through Scholastica to many journals at once, leverage offers with expedite requests, and then survive an intensive student-editor edit plus a full cite-check / source-pull. Figure out the stage, then dispatch.
hlr-placement-strategy)hlr-student-editor-review)| Situation | Type | Route to |
|---|---|---|
| Full original legal argument, novel normative claim | Article (long, heavily footnoted) | normal pipeline below |
| Shorter, focused intervention or provocation | Essay | normal pipeline, tighter scope |
| Engaging a recent book to make an independent claim | Book Review | hlr-thesis-and-contribution + hlr-argument-structure |
| Invited Supreme Court Foreword / Comment / Term piece | Supreme Court issue | hlr-argument-structure + hlr-sources-and-bluebook (invitation-driven) |
Notes are student-written and unsigned by HLR editors — not an outside-author track. If you are not an HLR editor, you are writing an Article, Essay, or Book Review.
Is the topic timely and placeable? → hlr-topic-selection
What is the legal claim / payoff? → hlr-thesis-and-contribution
Has this argument been made already? → hlr-preemption-check
How is the argument built? → hlr-argument-structure
Are authorities cited correctly? → hlr-sources-and-bluebook
Is the footnote apparatus sound? → hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check
Does the prose read like a law review?→ hlr-writing-style
Where and when do I submit/expedite? → hlr-placement-strategy
Ready to upload to Scholastica? → hlr-submission
Editor sent edits / source-pull? → hlr-student-editor-review
Working through the edit cycle? → hlr-revision-and-editing
topic-selection → thesis-and-contribution → preemption-check → argument-structure → sources-and-bluebook → footnotes-and-cite-check → writing-style → placement-strategy → submission → student-editor-review → revision-and-editing
Run the preemption check early — discovering your claim was already made after drafting is the classic wasted-summer failure. Iterate thesis ↔ argument ↔ sources before polishing prose.
| Check | Pass condition | Route if weak |
|---|---|---|
| Student-edited model | You expect a generalist student audience, not a subfield peer panel | hlr-writing-style |
| Preemption | You have searched SSRN / Westlaw / HeinOnline and your claim is genuinely new | hlr-preemption-check |
| Normative payoff | The piece does more than describe doctrine — it argues for something | hlr-thesis-and-contribution |
| Source-pull readiness | Every proposition is pin-cited and pullable to a real source | hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check |
| Placement plan | You know the seasons and the expedite mechanics before you submit | hlr-placement-strategy |
【Stage】topic / thesis / preemption / argument / sources / footnotes / writing / placement / submit / edit / revise
【Type】Article / Essay / Book Review / Supreme Court (invited)
【Route to】hlr-<skill>
【Why】one line
【Then】the next skill after that
../../resources/external_tools.md — legal research databases + Bluebook/citation tooling../../resources/official-source-map.md — official HLR URLs behind every fact in this packnpx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin harvard-law-review-skillsRoutes YLJ submissions to the correct sub-skill based on track (Article, Essay, Feature, Note, Comment, Forum) and lifecycle stage. Dispatches; does not draft.
Performs final pre-submission preflight checks for Harvard Law Review via Scholastica, covering manuscript readiness, Bluebook footnotes, expedite setup, and season timing.
Routes manuscript work for The Journal of Law and Economics (JLE) submissions, directing to the appropriate jle-* sub-skill based on current stage or bottleneck.