Stephanie Grace

Stephanie Grace is a third year law student at Harvard Law School and a graduate of Princeton University. Though the date of the incident has been debated, sources indicate that Grace wrote an email in November 2009 about race and intelligence that was disseminated to Above the Law, a legal blog, on April 28, 2010. Grace had written "I absolutely do not rule out the possibility that African Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be less intelligent.... I don’t think it is that controversial of an opinion to say I think it is at least possible that African-Americans are less intelligent on a genetic level." Grace also commented on gender, stating that "Women tend to perform less well in math due at least in part to prenatal levels of testosterone, which also account for variations in mathematics performance within genders."
Dean of Harvard Law School, Martha Minow, responded to the controversy on April 29 in an email to the Harvard Law community, stating that HLS is "committed to preventing degradation of any individual or group.... We seek to encourage freedom of expression, but freedom of speech should be accompanied by responsibility."
Grace, an editor of the Harvard Law Review, has been offered a federal clerkship with Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

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