There are several issues in this unfolding story about Scholastica, law review submissions, and “diversity” preferences. Let’s break them out.

I’m shocked!  Shocked!:  Over at Prawfs, Professor Mannheimer and various anonymous commentators think that Orin, Josh and I are naive.  Everyone knows that law reviews routinely take race, gender and sexual orientation into account when choosing between articles.  Indeed, Josh got an email from a former editor at the California Law Review saying that the practice “is nothing new and not exactly a secret.” Well, shucks. I guess I’m the sucker here.  Even if this had crossed my mind, I would have naively thought that law faculties would never permit law student boards to make decisions about articles based on race, gender and sexual orientation without clearly thinking through [...]

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