Justice Department Finds Duke Law School Discriminates Based on Race in Admissions

The record

Publisher

U.S. Department of Justice

Source

U.S. Department of Justice

Kind

Release

Jurisdiction

United States

Topics

Enforcement

Importance

Notable, the middle of three tiers Kresmion sets by fixed rules from the source's own fields

Published (source time)

2026-08-06 12:00 UTC

First seen on Kresmion

2026-08-06 20:24 UTC, 8 h after publication

The original

Link checked 2026-10-27: available.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice. U.S. Government work.

The publisher's summary

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced today investigative findings that Duke University School of Law (Duke Law) intentionally discriminated based on race in granting and denying admission to its 2023, 2024, and 2025 incoming classes. Duke Law’s discriminatory conduct violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard ( SFFA ), which banned race discrimination in higher education.

The publisher's words, as published.