* Professor of Law, Harrison Foundation Research Professor, University of Virginia School of
Law. BA 1975. Claremont Men's College; JD 1978, University of California at Los Angeles …

In the landmark 2003 affirmative action case Grutter v. Bollinger,'United States Supreme
Court Justice Clarence Thomas authored a startling dissenting opinion. 2 Grutter, for all …

There is no rigorous definition of affirmative action. This Article argues that this remarkable
circumstance has distorted and undercutAmeican antidiscrinination law Though affirmative …

F EW issues are more starkly divisive in our politics than affirmative action: its opponents
wage an all-out war on preferential treatment for blacks, invoking a norm of" color …

Thirty-one years have passed since President John F Kennedy began the modern era of
affirmative action by issuing Executive Order 10, 9251 in response to the concerns of civil …

Today I know they have this thing called Affirmative Action. I can see why they need it. There
are some places where colored folks would never, not in a thousand years, get a job. But …

RESPONSES Page 1 RESPONSES DOES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION REDUCE THE
NUMBER OF BLACK LAWYERS? Ian Ayres* & Richard Brooks** INTRODUCTION …

Affirmative action is so burning it's boring. Why? Partly because so much of what one sees
and hears on the subject smacks of hypocrisy or speaking in code. Exhibit A: the name of …

For the past thirty-five years, American higher education has been engaged in a massive
social experiment: to determine whether the use of racial preferences in college and …

In this Article, Samuel Issacharoff examines affirmative action and law school admissions
from his perspective as a member of the University of Teas's defense team in the Hopwood …