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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on June 19, 2025, 04:01:35 PM
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https://freebeacon.com/campus/exclusive-harvard-law-review-axes-85-percent-of-submissions-using-race-conscious-rubric-documents-show/
"The Review does not consider race, ethnicity, gender, or any other protected characteristic as a basis for recommending or selecting a piece for publication," the journal wrote in a fact sheet published on May 27.
But according to new documents obtained by the Free Beacon, the law review eliminates more than 85 percent of submissions using a rubric that asks about "author diversity." And 40 percent of journal editors have cited protected characteristics when lobbying for or against articles—at one point killing a piece by an Asian-American scholar, Alex Zhang, after an editor complained in a meeting that "we have too many Yale JDs and not enough Black and Latino/Latina authors."
"We shouldn’t be checking a box," the editor added. "Just something to be mindful of."