Harvard Law Review Denies Accusations That it Considers Race in Consideration for Publication

Harvard Law Review Denies Accusations That it Considers Race in Consideration for Publication

This is a follow up to a story we ran recently. Of course they deny the allegations. Why would anyone expect anything different?

The Harvard Crimson reports:

Harvard Law Review Forcefully Denies Racial Discrimination Accusations That Sparked Federal Inquiry

The Harvard Law Review disputed allegations that it had illegally considered race in selecting editors and articles for publication — one month after two federal agencies opened an investigation into the claims.

The Law Review first came under scrutiny after the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative publication, published leaked documents that showed Law Review editors discussing applicants’ demographic profiles. The Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services opened investigations into Harvard days later, repeating the Free Beacon’s allegations.

Since then, the federal government has seized on the Free Beacon’s materials to argue that Harvard permitted anti-white discrimination — including in Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s letter disqualifying Harvard from future federal grants and a Tuesday draft letter from the General Services Administration that would pull Harvard’s remaining federal contracts.

But on Tuesday, Harvard Law Review President G. Terrell Seabrooks released a fact sheet that contained detailed information on the Law Review’s internal structure and article selection processes. The fact sheet cast doubt on the Free Beacon’s claims and accused news reports of having “mischaracterized” the journal’s procedures.

Seabrooks wrote in a “State of the Review” message accompanying the fact sheet that no federal agency had directly contacted the Law Review about the investigation. He added that the leaders of the Law Review “categorically deny” allegations of race-based discrimination at the organization and are “committed to complying with all applicable laws.”

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