
Jonathan Feingold
Associate Professor
BA, Vassar College
JD, UCLA School of Law
Biography
Jonathan Feingold’s scholarship explores the relationship between race, law, and the mind sciences. Much of his recent research has interrogated how and why various American legal regimes, including equal protection doctrine, function to reinforce and reproduce racial hierarchy. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the California Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Utah Law Review, and Temple Law Review. Representative publications include “SFFA v. Harvard: How Affirmative Action Myths Mask White Bonus,” “Hidden in Plain Sight: a More Compelling Case for Diversity,” “Eyes Wide Open: What Social Science Can Tell Us About the Supreme Court’s Use of Social Science” (with Evelyn Carter), and “Defusing Implicit Bias” (with Karen Lorang). Jonathan also hosts #RaceClass, a monthly conversation that explores how race and racism remain powerful forces in American society.
From 2015 through 2019, Feingold served as special assistant to the vice chancellor for equity, diversity & inclusion at the University of California, Los Angeles and was a research fellow in BruinX, a research and development team within the Office of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion. He is the co-founder of illuminate diversity consulting, a private consulting firm that employs an interdisciplinary approach to foster inclusion through candid, data-driven conversation.
Feingold received his BA from Vassar College and holds a JD from UCLA School of Law, where he graduated with a specialization in critical race studies. After law school, he joined Sidley Austin LLP as an associate in the firm’s Los Angeles office. He then clerked for the Hon. Richard C. Wesley of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Hon. Dale S. Fischer of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
In 2014, he received a California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year Award for work done in connection with Rodriguez v. Robbins, a case concerning immigrant detainees’ rights to bond hearings.
- Profile Types
- Faculty, Full-Time Faculty, and Professors & Clinical Instructors
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- Affirmative Action, Anti-discrimination Law, Critical Race Theory, Education Law, Property Law, and Social Psychology
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Publications
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Jonathan Feingold, Ambivalent Advocates: Why Elite Universities Compromised the Case for Affirmative Action 58 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (2023)
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Jonathan Feingold, Colorblind Capture 102 Boston University Law Review (2022)
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Brief of Legal Scholars Defending Race-Conscious Admissions as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, SFFA v. Harvard (20-1199) and SFFA v. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (21-707)
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Jonathan Feingold & Devon Carbado, Rewriting Whren v. United States 68 UCLA Law Review (2022)
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Jonathan Feingold, Reclaiming Equality: How Regressive Laws Can Advance Progressive Ends 73 South Carolina Law Review (2022)
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Jonathan Feingold, Civil Rights Catch 22s 43 Cardozo Law Review (2022)
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig & Jonathan Feingold, Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and Law (2022)
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Jonathan Feingold, Deficit Frame Dangers 37 Georgia State University Law Review (2021)
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Jonathan Feingold, "All (Poor) Lives Matter": How Class-Not-Race Logic Reinscribes Race and Class Privilege University of Chicago Law Review Online (2020)
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Jonathan Feingold, SFFA v. Harvard: How Affirmative Action Myths Mask White Bonus 107 California Law Review (2019)
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Jonathan Feingold, Equal Protection Design Defects 91 Temple Law Review (2019)
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Jonathan Feingold, Diversity Drift 9 Wake Forest Law Review Online (2019)
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Jonathan Feingold, Hidden in Plain Sight: A More Compelling Case for Diversity 2019 Utah Law Review (2019)
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Jonathan Feingold & Evelyn Carter, Eyes Wide Open: What Social Science Can Tell Us About the Supreme Court's Use of Social Science 112 Northwestern University Law Review Online (2018)
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Jonathan Feingold & Doug Souza, Measuring the Racial Unevenness of Law School 15 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy (2013)
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Jonathan Feingold & Karen Lorang, Defusing Implicit Bias 59 UCLA Law Review Discourse (2012)
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Jonathan Feingold, Racing Towards Colorblindness: Stereotype Threat and the Myth of Meritocracy 3 Georgetown Journal of Law and Modern Critical Race Perspectives (2011)
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In the Media
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Boston Globe August 17, 2023
Students Must Use Names, Pronouns Assigned at Birth under New Worcester Catholic School Policy
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Oxford Human Rights Hub August 10, 2023
After SFFA v. Harvard, Universities Must Hold the Line
Jonathan Feingold pens an opinion.
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The Harvard Crimson July 28, 2023
Legal Experts Divided over Whether Ed Blum’s Letter to Schools Adheres to SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling
Jonathan Feingold is quoted.
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Newsweek July 25, 2023
The Real Threat to Free Speech Is Coming from the Right | Opinion
Jonathan Feingold pens an opinion.
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The Harvard Crimson July 21, 2023
Did Harvard Intentionally Discriminate? In Admissions Discrimination Suit, the Supreme Court Doesn’t Say
Aziza Ahmed and Jonathan Feingold are quoted.
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Pacifica Radio July 5, 2023
This Week on Sprouts: Class Can’t Do the Work of Race
Jonathan Feingold cohosts a podcast.
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CityLine WCVB July 2, 2023
What’s Next for Students with the End of Affirmative Action
Jonathan Feingold is interviewed.
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Boston25 June 30, 2023
Mass. Reacts to Supreme Court Decision to Restrict Race-Based College Admissions
Jonathan Feingold is interviewed.
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Morning Edition
Unraveling the Impacts of the Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling
Jonathan Feingold is interviewed
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Newsweek June 29, 2023
Justice Roberts Chose Colorblindness Over the Constitution
Jonathan Feingold pens an opinion.
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MassLive
SCOTUS Strikes Down Affirmative Action, a Major Blow to College Diversity
Jonathan Feingold is quoted.
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BU Today
Supreme Court Guts Affirmative Action in College Admissions, Provides Scant Guidance for Universities
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WNHN.org June 28, 2023
#RaceClass Episode 19: Some Affirmative Action Myths
Jonathan Feingold cohosts a podcast.
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MassLive June 27, 2023
Mass. Student Fears Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling May Kill College Plans
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POLITICO June 16, 2023
How White People Stole Affirmative Action — and Ensured Its Demise
Jonathan Feingold is quoted.
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