The #HarvardLawReview is a #student-run organization that is legally #independent from the #Harvard #Law School, acc/to a statement by a Harvard Law spox….

The #school is “committed to ensuring that the programs & activities it oversees are in compliance with all applicable laws & to investigating any credibly alleged violations,” the stmnt said.

The investigation was launched amid the #Trump admin’s decision to freeze >$2B in grants & contracts w/ #HarvardUniversity, which sued in response.

The investigation follows a report by the [#unethical (see link) & #FarRight] #WashingtonFreeBeacon concluding that race “plays a far larger role in the selection of both editors & articles” than previously acknowledged by the #HarvardLawReview. The Washington Free Beacon article was based on leaked internal documents.

#law #Trump #AntiIntellectuallism #RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #ExecutiveOverreach #Harvard #Constitution #AcademicFreedom #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/01/the-ascendant-smear-wing-of-the-conservative-movement/266903/

Allocating opportunities & recognition based on race, rather than merit, is unacceptable, the release said.
The #CivilRights offices of the Depts of #Education & #HHS are conducting investigation.

“#HarvardLawReview’s article selection process appears to pick winners & 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,” said Craig Trainor, the DOE’s acting asst secy for civil rights.

#law

The Nation is running a piece that was pulled from the Harvard Law Review at the last minute--a piece solicited by two of its editors, and which would have been the first written for them by a Palestinian.

"Today, The Nation is sharing the piece that the Harvard Law Review refused to run."

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/harvard-law-review-gaza-israel-genocide/

#Palestine #Genocide #HarvardLawReview