Civil Rights
Sep. 22, 2001
Reaching High
Few issues are as divisive or as important as whether universities may use race as a factor in admission decisions to enhance diversity. There is a split among the federal Court of Appeals on this issue.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
Few issues are as divisive or as important as whether universities may use race as a factor in admission decisions to enhance diversity. There is a split among the federal Court of Appeals on this issue.
On Aug. 27, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court ...
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