Harvard Law Review Skills

Agent skill stack for legal scholarship targeted at the Harvard Law Review (HLR) — one of the oldest student-edited, generalist American law reviews, published by the Harvard Law Review Association and affiliated with Harvard Law School. HLR is NOT peer-reviewed: it is student-edited, and articles are placed through the distinctive U.S. law-review ecosystem (near-final manuscript submitted to many

by @brycewang-stanford 12 skills

Install

npx skillmds@latest add plugin:brycewang-stanford/harvard-law-review-skills

One command, no setup. In Claude Code it lands as a managed plugin you can enable, disable or remove with /plugin. On any other agent it installs the 12 skills into that agent's own folder.

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Download the plugin and unzip its skills/ folder into your agent's skills directory. Works with every agent, no CLI needed.

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This plugin

skills: 12
authors: 1

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Skills in this plugin

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Hlr Workflow · brycewang-stanford
Use when starting or navigating any Harvard Law Review (HLR) article, essay, or book review and you need the right next sub-skill. Routes by lifecycle stage and the distinctive student-edited, multi-submit/expedite law-review process. It dispatches; it does not draft content.

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Hlr Submission · brycewang-stanford bundle
Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for the Harvard Law Review (HLR) via HLR's own electronic submission system — manuscript readiness, anonymization, length limits, Bluebook 22nd-edition footnotes, expedite setup, and season timing. Final upload checks; it does not plan the placement strategy (hlr-placement-strategy) or draft content.

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Hlr Writing Style · brycewang-stanford
Use when shaping the prose and structure of a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece for a generalist, student-edited audience — clear introductions, disciplined Parts, and the heavy-footnote register of legal scholarship. Polishes how it reads; it does not forge the claim (hlr-thesis-and-contribution) or format citations (hlr-sources-and-bluebook).

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Hlr Topic Selection · brycewang-stanford
Use when choosing or sharpening a topic for a Harvard Law Review (HLR) Article, Essay, or Book Review so it is timely, generalist-legible, and placeable in the student-edited law-review market. Judges fit and timing; it does not run the preemption search (that is hlr-preemption-check) or draft the claim.

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Hlr Preemption Check · brycewang-stanford
Use when verifying that a Harvard Law Review (HLR) argument has not already been made — the law-review "preemption check" run across SSRN, Westlaw/Lexis, HeinOnline, and Google Scholar BEFORE drafting. Confirms originality and refines the claim; it does not draft the thesis (hlr-thesis-and-contribution) or the literature engagement in the body.

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Hlr Argument Structure · brycewang-stanford
Use when organizing the body of a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece along the doctrine to theory to normative-prescription arc that legal scholarship rewards. Structures the argument and its internal logic; it does not forge the thesis (hlr-thesis-and-contribution) or format the citations (hlr-sources-and-bluebook).

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Hlr Placement Strategy · brycewang-stanford
Use when planning where and when to submit a law-review article and how to leverage offers — the distinctive Scholastica multi-submit, expedite mechanics, and the February-March / August seasons, with the Harvard Law Review (HLR) as a top target. Plans placement and timing; it does not run the final upload preflight (hlr-submission).

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Hlr Revision And Editing · brycewang-stanford
Use when working through the Harvard Law Review (HLR) post-acceptance editing cycle — successive substantive and technical edit rounds, responding to editor markups, and page proofs to publication. Drives the edit cycle to completion; it does not manage the offer/expedite phase (hlr-placement-strategy) or the first editor handshake (hlr-student-editor-review).

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Hlr Sources And Bluebook · brycewang-stanford
Use when citing authority in a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece — pinpoint citations, the authority hierarchy, and The Bluebook (which HLR co-publishes). Governs how sources are cited and weighted; it does not build the footnote apparatus end-to-end (hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check) or write the prose.

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Hlr Student Editor Review · brycewang-stanford
Use when working with Harvard Law Review (HLR) student editors after an offer — the intensive substantive and technical edit, the cite-check / source-pull, and author responsiveness. Manages the relationship and process; it does not run the pre-offer placement (hlr-placement-strategy) or the author-side cite apparatus build (hlr-footnotes-and-cite-check).

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Hlr Thesis And Contribution · brycewang-stanford
Use when articulating the central legal claim and normative payoff of a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece so it reads as an original contribution, not a doctrinal survey. Forges the thesis; it does not search for preemption (hlr-preemption-check) or build the argument's internal structure (hlr-argument-structure).

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Hlr Footnotes And Cite Check · brycewang-stanford
Use when building and stress-testing the heavy footnote apparatus of a Harvard Law Review (HLR) piece so it survives the student-editor cite-check / source-pull. Builds and audits the apparatus for pull-readiness; it does not set Bluebook form per citation (hlr-sources-and-bluebook) or manage the editor relationship (hlr-student-editor-review).

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