Daniel Subotnik

In 2005, Subotnik published Toxic Diversity, where he offered numerous examples of what he deemed problematic CRT -- as well as feminist -- academic scholarship.

In 1998, Subotnik published one of the earliest critiques of critical race theory (CRT). His article, "What’s Wrong with Critical Race Theory: Reopening the Case for Middle Class Values," highlighted many exaggerated claims originating within the burgeoning CRT community. More generally, while accepting some aspects of critical race theory, Subotnik warned of communal dangers that could arise if modern day race relations are equated with circumstances one or two hundred years earlier. He has argued that white academics can and must have a role to play in a field dominated by minority voices, and that academic CRT scholars must reckon with changes in the racial landscape in America.

Subotnik is the son of a European refugee father (Louis Subotnik ) and an Egypt-born French mother (Emma [nee Bouskela] Subotnik). He earned a BA from Columbia University in 1963 and a JD/MBA from Columbia Law School in 1966. He is married to Rose Rosengard Subotnik, an American musicologist at Brown University.

Daniel Subotnik (born 1942) is a Professor of Law at the Touro Law Center who has written extensively about race and gender theory. He is the author of Toxic Diversity: Race, Gender, and Law Talk. and an early skeptic of critical race theory as interpreted by legal scholars.