Students competing for spots as editors of the Duke Law Journal were told they could receive extra points for being minorities, according to a new investigation.
The university’s law journal included the information in a guide created specifically for minority student groups ahead of its editorial competition in 2024, documents uncovered by the Washington Free Beacon show.
“This is clearly illegal,” David Bernstein, a law professor at George Mason University, told the Beacon.
The news also caught the attention of Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon on X. The federal government recently opened an investigation into Harvard Law Review over alleged “race-based discrimination,” The College Fix reported in May.