Jonathan Feingold

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).

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.

PUBLICATIONS
Jonathan Feingold, "Diversity Drift," 9 Wake Forest Law Review Online 14 (2019).
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Jonathan Feingold, "Equal Protection Design Defects," 91 Temple Law Review 513 (2019).
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Jonathan Feingold, "Hidden in Plain Sight: A More Compelling Case for Diversity," 2019 Utah Law Review 59 (2019).
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Jonathan Feingold, "SFFA v. Harvard: How Affirmative Action Myths Mask White Bonus," 107 California Law Review 707 (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 1689 (2018).
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Jonathan Feingold & Douglas Souza, "Measuring the Racial Unevenness of Law School," 15 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy 71 (2013).
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Jonathan Feingold & Karen Lorang, "Defusing Implicit Bias," 59 UCLA Law Review Discourse 210 (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 231 (2011).
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COURSES
Critical Race Theory Colloquium(S): LAW JD 731
Education Law: LAW JD 777
Problems in Anti-Discrimination Law (S): LAW JD 795
IN THE MEDIA
September 22, 2021
Biden’s Racism Speech
An opinion authored by Jonathan Feingold. read more

May 11, 2021
The Chauvin Verdict and Lessons from Brown: Who Are We, America?
A piece by Jonathan Feingold. read more

March 7, 2021
BU School of Law Reflects on Structural Racism Within US Law
Jonathan Feingold is quoted. read more

March 7, 2021
Students for Fair Admissions Asks Supreme Court to Review Harvard Case
Jonathan Feingold is quoted. read more

February 17, 2021
2021’s Most & Least Ethnically Diverse Cities in the U.S.
Jonathan Feingold is interviewed. read more