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Editors Nearly Doubled in First GenderBased Affirmative Action Cycle
By Dev A. Patel, Crimson Staff Writer
October 7, 2013

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In addition to expanding the size of the board to 46 editors, the Law Review instituted a
new gender component to its affirmative action policy. The newest board has more
female editors than any volume since volume 122 in 2007.

In the first cycle since the Harvard Law Review incorporated gender-based
affirmative action into its admissions process, 17 out of 46 editors are women,
nearly double last year’s 9 female members of 44 overall.
The 128th volume boasts more women on its staff than any board since volume
122 was selected in 2007.
In the admissions process, interested candidates participate in a writing
competition consisting of a ‘subcite’ component, which involves correcting

errors in a short written piece and a commentary section in which applicants
report and analyze a recent case before the United States Supreme Court. This
week-long process takes place after the completion of first-year final exams in
the spring semester.
This year, the Law Review received 267 applicants, a “somewhat higher” number
than past years, according to President Gillian S. Grossman ’10, a third-year
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competition scores and 14 were selected based on a combination of their firstyear grades and writing competition scores. Gender was not considered in
evaluating the candidacy of any of these 34 applicants.
Ten newly selected editors underwent the Law Review’s updated discretionary
process. These ten spots are filled based on the review of a discretionary
committee that assesses applicants’ grades, writing test scores, race, physical
disabilities, and for the first time ever this year, gender.

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The policy change, which was instituted in January, is intended to “enhance the
diversity of the editorial body,” Grossman told The Crimson at the time.
Grossman declined to comment on whether the shift in the admissions process
was a success. However, it is unclear whether the increase in female editors is
due to the new affirmative action policy or if more women were selected by
chance using the gender-blind processes.

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alongside the expansion of the journal’s affirmative action policy. For the most
recently selected volume, two editors who had been admitted in previous cycles
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Realist • 5 years ago

"[I]t is unclear whether the increase in female editors is due to the new
affirmative action policy or if more women were selected by chance using
the gender-blind processes." Doesn't matter. To everyone who hires HLS students
or alums, every woman on the Law Review -- just like every person of color or
every person with a physical disability -- will now be presumed to have made it
under the affirmative action program. Way to go Law Review, you have just
devalued membership for everyone except white males.
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Guest > Realist • 5 years ago

Per the first link in the article, the Law Review's affirmative action policy
affects the admission of, at most, 12 of the 46 editors. Your mental
extension of the policy to all 17 women regardless of the actual numbers
says more about you than about the Law Review or its selection processes.
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Basta > Guest • 5 years ago

Problem is that there's no way of knowing which of the 17 are there
only because of the policy, and even if it's a bit less than 12 it's still a
majority or nearly so. So, if you see a woman editor then you now
know a good chance she would not have been chosen under a
gender-blind process. Is that a good outcome — especially for the
women who *did* make it purely on their merits, without the
benefit of an affirmative-action thumb on the scale?
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Guest > Guest • 5 years ago

It's still forcing incompetents into positions of power. As Steve
Moxon shows in The Woman Racket (Sex at Work), most women
simply don't have the biological inclination or the chops to compete
with men as 'men'. Harvard Business School's silly hand raising
circus shows precisely why feminist gender goons richly deserve the
scorn they have so rightly earned.
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James • 5 years ago

Look at how the numbers fluctuate in the graph; the increase this year doesn't
seem statistically significant at all!
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Guest > James • 5 years ago

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It's called the Woman's Way of Knowing. No questioning is permitted. So
be careful or you'll be censored.
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Guest • 5 years ago

Funny how feminist gender bigots never call for equality of outcome in the sexed
Death Gap isn't it? Men do 98% of the dying in combat so that feminists are free
to tell loathsome lies...about men. Men do 95% of the dying on the job so that
feminists can fantasize about an imagined 'gender pay gap'. And men die 5 years
earlier than women as the Disposable Sex but feminists would have us believe that
is it's the Coddled Sex which is 'oppressed'. We need an affirmative action
program for gender based disposability...particularly for feminist gender bigots.
Let's Shatter the Glass Floor for these girls...so that they can enjoy true equality
for once.
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Guest > Guest • 5 years ago

No. It is the poor who die. In Vietnam, it was the poor who could not evade
the draft. It is the poor of Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine, etc.
who suffer and die at the hands of soldiers and states with megalomaniacal
dreams. It is the poor who die from lack of health care. Historically, it has
always been rich, rich men who send poor men to war.
But nothing compares to the poverty of spirit in your words. Behind your
hateful language, a dead intellect dwells. For we are able to kill others
when we view them as lesser, as subpar. When we see each other as equal
among gender, race, nationality, and all, then coercing a populace to
violence will end. Therefore, if you truly fear dying, why would you not
support equality? For with each barbed word, someone views you as less
equal and your prophecy becomes self-fulfilled.
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Guest > Guest • 5 years ago

Hardly. it's males who die and feminists who lie. Males also die for
lack of health care because almost all of the publicly funded heath
care goes to the already utterly Coddled Sex. You can go read
Moxon's The Woman Racket for the whole sorry story.
And nothing compares to the pigheaded anti-male bigotry of the
hysterically hateful 'equality' movement you seem to be backing
here. Feminists do indeed kill, imprison and impoverish others
because they see men and boys as totally inferior to their morally
and now 'spiritually' superior 'gender' (that is sex). Coercing a
populace with female vice...which is the tried and true way to
induce mass totalitarian violence...will end when the Dark Side of
Woman finally sees the light of day. I do support equality in female
dying as well as the law suit the National Coalition of Men brought
against the Selective Service to include women as equals in the
Draft. You can also be sure that feminist bigots (eg mainstream
'gender' feminists) see men as far more equal when we dare to go
Klanswoman hunting. And if, you even HAVE the least little bit of
intellect or spirit, you've got to be aware that feminism has nothing
whatever to do with equality...in it's ideology or in it's application.
So please don't play the personal attack game when you are waxing
lame about 'equality'.

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guest > Guest • 5 years ago

I think you need to get laid, bro.

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Guest > guest • 5 years ago

And I guess I've got to go be a hero for some feminist babe
to get laid too, bro?

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Yee • 5 years ago

Great article, Dev!
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Atticus Finch • 5 years ago

"Ten newly selected editors underwent the Law Review’s updated discretionary
process. These ten spots are filled based on the review of a discretionary
committee that assesses applicants’ grades, writing test scores, race, physical
disabilities, and for the first time ever this year, gender."
The new process seems designed to flatly violate Title IX's prohibition of gender
discrimination. This whole scam is going to become even messier when the
SCOTUS blows away what's left of racial "factoring" in affirmative action
programs later this year. Fire up those class action lawsuits!

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ShadrachSmith • 5 years ago

How did Obama get on the Law Review?

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