Columbia Law Review Shuts Down Website Over Controversial Article

The article arguing for a new legal framework on the Palestinian Nakba bypassed standard editorial review, sparking a major dispute.

The article, written by Harvard doctoral candidate Rabea Eghbariah, accuses Israel of genocide and apartheid.
Columbia Law Review's board of directors shut down the website after student editors published the piece without full editorial review.
The article's publication has ignited a debate over academic freedom and editorial independence at Columbia.
Student editors claim the board's intervention is unprecedented and content-based, not procedural.
Eghbariah's work had previously faced censorship at Harvard Law Review.