Harvard, in New Filing in Court, Suggests Its Jewish Students Were Too Fearful in the Wake of October 7

Who’s to blame — the lawyers or the client?

AP/Ben Curtis
Students protesting against the war in Gaza are seen at an encampment at Harvard University at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 25, 2024. AP/Ben Curtis

Harvard reportedly spent more than $25 million, mostly on the law firm WilmerHale, defending the racial preferences in college admissions that the Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional. After losing the landmark Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard case in June 2023, Harvard again turned to WilmerHale to prepare its president, Claudine Gay, for a December 2023 congressional hearing on Harvard’s response to antisemitism. 

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