Inside Higher Ed55%
DOJ Finds Duke Law Discriminated in Admissions 51%
By Johanna Alonso65%
8/7/2026, 12:00:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote, Burden of Proof, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 62.9% saturation with 193 hits. Analysis detected 1,324 faulty-reasoning hits from 307 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 43.1% and a BS Rank of 51% (14,827 of 30,063 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 50.70% of the article peer group.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced today that it found Duke University “intentionally discriminated based on race in granting and denying admission” to its law school over three admissions cycles.
It’s the first law school that the department has found to have violated the Supreme Court’s 2023 ban on considering race in college admissions decisions.
Up to this point, the DOJ has focused its efforts on proving medical schools discriminated against white and Asian students in their admissions processes, opening investigations into at least 26 schools and announcing findings of discrimination in four.
In its six-page letter to Duke, the department cites internal documents that describe the law school’s commitment to diversity as evidence that the law school’s admissions team intended to discriminate based on race, such as a clause in the mission statement that says the law school aims to “to help build and sustain a dynamic legal profession that embodies commitment to … diversity of perspective and experience” (emphasis the DOJ’s).
The Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v.
Harvard specifically stated that it is not illegal for colleges and universities to continue to pursue racial diversity among their student body—they just couldn’t do it by considering race as a factor in an admissions decision.
The DOJ also used as evidence against Duke Law guidance for application reviewers that they “may consider applicant’s discussions of how race affected their life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise.”
The letter is similar to those the DOJ sent to medical schools that the department found had discriminated against white and Asian applicants.
Experts have told Inside Higher Ed that statistical analyses of standardized tests are not enough to support a finding of discrimination; they’ve also criticized the letters for lacking standard evidence, such as interviews with admissions professionals.
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