Equal Justice Society

Thank you to the participants, speakers and staff who contributed to Friday’s symposium on Economic Opportunity: The Labor and Employment Impact of Proposition 209 at the UCLA Faculty Center.
If you registered for the symposium - whether or not you were able to attend - please help us by completing an online survey. It will help [...]

A Vision Fulfilled? The Impact of Proposition 209 on Equal Opportunity for Women Business Enterprises
Monique W. Morris, Michael D. Sumner, Jessica Z. Borja

Affirmative Action Programs and Business Ownership among Minorities and Women
Robert Fairlie, Justin Marion
Diversity Management in America and the Affirmative Action Debate in France
Christine Pauwels
The Effectiveness of Affirmative Action in Highway Procurement
Justin Marion
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Scholars and labor experts will today discuss at UCLA how Prop. 209 has impacted labor and employment in California at a symposium titled “Economic Opportunity in California: The Labor & Employment Impact of Prop. 209.”
Proposition 209, California’s anti-affirmative action initiative, went into effect in 1997. Much of the research on Proposition 209 in the decade [...]

The Impact 209 symposium is still on schedule. The firestorms in Southern California (Google Maps) have not impacted UCLA. But please book extra time to arrive at UCLA due to increased traffic conditions.

We’ve reached our registration capacity for the symposium, but we’re still taking waitlist registrations that will allow you to attend if space opens up. Individuals on the waitlist will be accommodated on a space-available basis by checking in with our registration table at the Faculty Center on the day of the symposium.
Due to last-minute cancellations [...]

Compelling State Interest will reveal a variety of statistics on the dramatic change in the socio-economic status of African-Americans in California. The presentation will be Oct. 26, 2007 at UCLA in the Economic Opportunity in California symposium.
African-American population in California dropped nine percent from 2000 to 2006, according to Census estimates reported in the presentation [...]

The schedule for the symposium is now online here. And the time of the symposium has been revised to 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Please register if you haven’t done so already. The symposium is free, but we do need you to sign up.