Affirmative Action in American Law Schools (hereinafter Systemic Analysis) 3 has been
predominantly favorable, many of my most sympathetic readers predicted a fierce reaction …

Richard Sander's article on affirmative action in the Stanford Law 2 Review'has generated
nothing less than an academic firestorm. To its credit," A Systemic Analysis of Affirmative …

Every year at Passover, Jews gather around festively clad tables for a ritual meal-the seder-
to remember and to celebrate the liberation of the Jews from slavery in Egypt thousands of …

Affirmative action was initially conceived as a remedy to benefit African Americans. Although
many affirmative action programs include the members of other racial and ethnic groups …

Thanks to the Alabama faculty and especially Dean Ken Randall for the invitation to speak
here today. I am honored to give an address named after one of the greatest and most …

Your forum on affirmative action could not be more timely.'I hope to provide some
background and context for the dialogue in which you are about to engage. I do so neither …

Facts have never played much of a role in the affirmative action debate. Most of the books
and articles written on affirmative action are intended primarily to demonstrate some …

The purpose of this article is to review the accomplishments and failures of affirmative action
in the legal educational arena over the last fifteen to twenty years. The most substantial …

The Supreme Court's decision in Grutter v. Bollinger,'upholding race-conscious affirmative
action in admissions to the University of Michi-gan Law School, is widely seen as a …

Affirmative action-more bluntly, reverse discrimination-is a vast and variegated subject. I do
not think it is possible to discuss it in a lump even if one is confining one's attention not only …