Have the student editors of the prestigious Harvard Law Review (HLR) unfairly boosted Black and Latino authors to the detriment of Asian and white authors? What if we combined Google Scholar, a search engine for academics, with ChatGPT or Google Gemini, the generative A.I. tool/large language model in Google Search, to find out? In the meantime, check out this new and fun paper, “HLR Agonistes“, by my colleague and friend Brian Frye! For further reference, see also this report in the Harvard Crimson; below is Professor Frye’s provocative abstract:

On June 19, 2025, the Washington Free Beacon published a collection of almost 500 confidential memos written by Harvard Law Review editors, evaluating the articles submitted for publication. For the first time, the public has access to inside information about the preferences of the editors of the Harvard Law Review. This article uses ChatGPT to analyze the Free Beacon collection of Harvard Law Review memos and reflects on its findings.