Harvard Probed by US Agencies for Law Review Discrimination
The Lowell House on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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The Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services announced investigations into Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review citing reports of race-based discrimination, broadening the government’s assault on the oldest and richest US university.
“Harvard Law Review’s article selection process appears to pick winners and losers on the basis of race, employing a spoils system in which the race of the legal scholar is as, if not more, important than the merit of the submission,” Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor said in a statement on Monday.