Federal investigations have been initiated against Harvard and its Law Review, focusing on potential race-based discrimination in journal operations. This comes at a time when Harvard is contesting a federal freeze on $2.2 billion in grants, imposed due to non-compliance with directives to limit campus activism. Reports indicate the editor's concerns over article selection processes favoring race over merit. Federal authorities are examining these practices under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act while Harvard navigates this contentious legal landscape.
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.
The investigations by the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services were announced separately, probing policies and practices that may violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
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