David B. Wilkins on Declining Black HLS Enrollment

news December 13, 2025
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David B. Wilkins spoke to the New York Times about the recently released numbers of Black Harvard Law School students. As the article reports, “Harvard Law enrolled 19 first-year Black students, or 3.4 percent of the class, the lowest number since the 1960s, according to the data from the American Bar Association. Last year, the law school’s first-year class had 43 Black students, according to an analysis by The New York Times.” Wilkins, who has been instrumental in multiple surveys of HLS Black alumni, told the Times, “The Supreme Court decision, and the fact that Harvard College was named in the case, played a role.”