Despite past denials, the Harvard Law Review eliminates more than 85% of submissions for publication based on “author diversity,” according to The Washington Free Beacon.
In May, the law review responded to a Free Beacon report by claiming it “does not consider race, ethnicity, gender, or any other protected characteristic as a basis for recommending or selecting a piece for publication.”
However, the Free Beacon reported Thursday that the Review eliminates most submissions using a rubric, or set of criteria, that includes asking 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,’” wrote Free Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium, citing meeting minutes from the law review’s articles committee.
The Free Beacon obtained more than 500 documents from 2024 and 2025. The documents showed that at least 42 different editors considered race or gender when making recommendations in 2024, the outlet said.
Although the law review has said that it vets articles based solely on “their quality and contribution to legal scholarship,” the Free Beacon identified at least 87 cases, including 75 published last year alone, that the law review considered protected traits or encouraged members to do so.
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