Harvard Law Review is pushing back against claims that it considers race or gender when selecting articles for publication, following a report alleging otherwise.
Internal documents recently obtained by the Washington Free Beacon suggest that some editors at HLR took authors’ race into account when making article selection and publication decisions.
According to the report, a scoring system known as the “Rotopool rubric” is used early in the article selection process and includes questions about the author’s race and other protected characteristics.
The Free Beacon states that this rubric is used to eliminate roughly 85 percent of submitted articles.