John O. McGinnis contends that the Harvard Law Review's history with preferences illustrates three laws most such systems follow:
First, once instituted they expand over time in numbers, degree, and scope of categories preferred. ...
Second, preferences also move from assuring that people have a seat at the table to assuring that they have one of the most honored seats. ...
Third, the conceit that racial, ethnic, and gender preferences will result in the representation of more diverse views, which indeed could be important in putting out a publication, is often false, as it is in this case.
