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The Diversity Hoax: Law Students Report from Berkeley
The Diversity Hoax is a book about diversity on campus, written by those who know it best - students. These personal essays from UC Berkeley law students from across the political spectrum offer hopeful solutions to an important problem in higher education - a problem universities are working hard to keep quiet. They will motivate students nationwide to start exercising their rights to free speech and express their diverse opinions on various topics, including what diversity even means.
184 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1999
About the author
David Wienir
6 books49 followersDavid Wienir is an Associate General Counsel at HarperCollins Publishers and Head of Business and Legal Affairs at HarperCollins Productions.
Before HarperCollins, he was a business affairs executive for over a decade at United Talent Agency (UTA) and practiced law at two of the top talent boutiques (Gang Tyre & Grubman Indursky) where he represented A-List clients including Spielberg and Madonna. He began his legal career as a litigator and First Amendment lawyer in New York with the 150 year old international law firm Coudert Brothers, representing prominent book publishers along with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
He has been awarded the Outstanding Volunteer Award from Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers Magazine, named to Variety's Legal Impact Report, and is the author of several books including:
“Amsterdam Exposed: An American’s Journey Into the Red Light District” (winner of 15 literary awards, including the Grand Prize at the 2018 Hollywood Book Festival) and
“Making It on Broadway: Actors’ Tales of Climbing to the Top” (foreword by Jason Alexander from Seinfeld).
His first book "Last Time: Labour’s Lessons from the Sixties” was co-authored at the age of 23 with a member of British Parliament.
He has taught entertainment law for 20+ years, including at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, The New York Institute of Technology, The College of New Rochelle and UCLA, and is the founder of the premier online entertainment law class Entertainment Law Exposed.
He was educated at Columbia, Oxford, The London School of Economics, Berkeley Law, and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and is admitted to practice law in New York and California.
Before beginning his career as an entertainment lawyer, he was the host of the talk radio show "Estonia Today" on Estonia National Radio, worked within the Governor of California’s legal affairs office, and worked for the LA District Attorney’s office during the Menendez murder trial. Also, he worked as a speechwriter and staff member for a Member of British Parliament, as a researcher for The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, and as a statistician for CBS Sports.
He is a graduate of ARTA’s professional whitewater river rafting school in Idaho and guided river trips for several years in California and Oregon, and is a founder and former musical director of both Columbia's Uptown Vocal and The Oxford Alternotives, Oxford University's oldest a cappella close harmony group.
Before HarperCollins, he was a business affairs executive for over a decade at United Talent Agency (UTA) and practiced law at two of the top talent boutiques (Gang Tyre & Grubman Indursky) where he represented A-List clients including Spielberg and Madonna. He began his legal career as a litigator and First Amendment lawyer in New York with the 150 year old international law firm Coudert Brothers, representing prominent book publishers along with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
He has been awarded the Outstanding Volunteer Award from Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers Magazine, named to Variety's Legal Impact Report, and is the author of several books including:
“Amsterdam Exposed: An American’s Journey Into the Red Light District” (winner of 15 literary awards, including the Grand Prize at the 2018 Hollywood Book Festival) and
“Making It on Broadway: Actors’ Tales of Climbing to the Top” (foreword by Jason Alexander from Seinfeld).
His first book "Last Time: Labour’s Lessons from the Sixties” was co-authored at the age of 23 with a member of British Parliament.
He has taught entertainment law for 20+ years, including at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, The New York Institute of Technology, The College of New Rochelle and UCLA, and is the founder of the premier online entertainment law class Entertainment Law Exposed.
He was educated at Columbia, Oxford, The London School of Economics, Berkeley Law, and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and is admitted to practice law in New York and California.
Before beginning his career as an entertainment lawyer, he was the host of the talk radio show "Estonia Today" on Estonia National Radio, worked within the Governor of California’s legal affairs office, and worked for the LA District Attorney’s office during the Menendez murder trial. Also, he worked as a speechwriter and staff member for a Member of British Parliament, as a researcher for The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, and as a statistician for CBS Sports.
He is a graduate of ARTA’s professional whitewater river rafting school in Idaho and guided river trips for several years in California and Oregon, and is a founder and former musical director of both Columbia's Uptown Vocal and The Oxford Alternotives, Oxford University's oldest a cappella close harmony group.
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March 18, 2026
It must be good; university libraries don't have it.
Reckon I'll have to put out good money for this book. University of Maryland doesn't carry it, nor does the consortium of seven private university libraries, and nor does the Montgomery County (Md) Public Library.
This despite an interesting and relevant topic and reasonably robust sales. Hmmmm.
(I add a year later) I have now read the book. It is refreshingly direct, in the voices of Boalt Hall students themselves. A few anonymous, and a few who disagree with the book's thesis. Still five stars.
Reckon I'll have to put out good money for this book. University of Maryland doesn't carry it, nor does the consortium of seven private university libraries, and nor does the Montgomery County (Md) Public Library.
This despite an interesting and relevant topic and reasonably robust sales. Hmmmm.
(I add a year later) I have now read the book. It is refreshingly direct, in the voices of Boalt Hall students themselves. A few anonymous, and a few who disagree with the book's thesis. Still five stars.
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