OVER AT THE VOLOKH CONSPIRACY, a whole series of posts on that Harvard Law School race flap. And here’s the first in the series.

UPDATE: Reader Ari Mendelson writes:

A comment about the Harvard Email Controversy.

I’m not sure if this has been brought into the conversation or not, but I think it should be more prominently emphasized in any case.

What about the person who betrayed her friend by forwarding the email? The person is, after all, going to be an attorney. As an attorney, she will have to take an oath to keep her clients’ confidential information secret. I believe that it is reasonable to suspect that the betrayer has demonstrated a lack of fitness to practice law due to her unreliability in keeping the confidence of secrets entrusted to her. After all, the email sender did say, in essence, not to “Larry Summers” her. I believe the Larry Summers comment was meant as a request to keep the email confidential.

Furthermore, it seems to me that bad conduct (namely betraying friends and colleagues) is less condemned than bad opinions. That disgusts me more than anything else about this case.

Good point.