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hlr-preemption-check
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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# Preemption Check (hlr-preemption-check)
In legal scholarship, **"preemption"** means: has someone already published your argument? Running this
search **before** you write is the single highest-return habit in the field — discovering that your claim
appeared in a 2024 article *after* you have drafted 25,000 words is the classic wasted summer. A clean
preemption check both protects originality and sharpens your contribution against the nearest prior work.
## When to trigger
- You have a candidate thesis and have not yet written the body
- You are about to claim "no one has argued X" or "first to address Y"
- A draft is done and you want to confirm nothing close appeared while you wrote
- An editor or colleague says "isn't this just [Author]'s point?"
