Schauf Chosen To Lead Law Review

The Harvard Law Review elected Zachary C. Schauf, a second-year student at the Law School, as its next president on January 30. Schauf will lead the Law Review’s 124th board.

Continuing the multimedia push of the outgoing board—which created a new technology chair position to enhance online presence and digitize the editing process—Schauf says he has planned online initiatives for the Law Review.

For one, Schauf said his class will work to increase the emphasis on online content and will seek to expand the discussion forum on its Web site.

And though the conversation is started in the print journal, Schauf added that he’d like to see dialogue continue online with responses to articles posted on the site.

Self-nominated candidates for Law Review president are selected by a vote of the entire active body of editors, which includes both second- and third-year law students. The remaining positions on the board are selected by second-year editors.

“[Schauf] will be an amazing president,” outgoing president Joanna N. Huey ’06 wrote in an e-mail message. “His work has proven him to be brilliant and diligent, and he has earned the respect of our editors.”

A 2004 graduate of Stanford University, where he majored in history and mathematics, and Oxford University, where he earned a Master of Philosophy in Modern Middle Eastern Studies, Schauf said he ran because he has enjoyed being a part of the  Law Review’s “very special community of talented people.”

“I ran because I love the organization,” Schauf added. “The Review contributes fantastic work to the legal community each year.”

And according to Schauf, that constitutes the Law Review’s perennial challenge—selecting “really high-quality articles and putting out great legal scholarship.”

Schauf said he hopes to emulate Huey’s “inclusive leadership style that made everyone feel welcome.”

“I can’t wait to see him lead the Review over the next year—it’s a tough job, but I have confidence in him and the rest of the new officers,” Huey said.

The legal profession is one of the only fields in which the major academic journals are edited by students, rather than colleagues.

The Law Review—founded in 1887 by Louis D. Brandeis, who later ascended to the Supreme Court—publishes a mix of articles from students, professors, judges, and legal practitioners.