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Equal
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| SUBSCRIBE Getting this forwarded from a friend? Subscribe to get our newsletter delivered directly to you! IN THIS ISSUE Eva Paterson: Vote as If Your Life Depended On It! Stanford Law Review Study on Affirmative Action in Law Schools Marred by Questionable Data EJS in Hawai'i: Praxis and Pono Notes on the Right: Voter Participation and the Right Civil Rights and Campaign Finance: Summaries of Key Law Review Articles Preserving Access at the University of California Become a Part of the Equal Justice Society
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Stanford
Law Review Study on Affirmative Action in Law Schools Marred
by Questionable Data Soon after you read this column, UCLA Law Professor Richard Sander's empirical attack on law school affirmative action will appear in the November issue of the Stanford Law Review. Sander analyzes national law school admissions, grades, and bar exam scores, and comes to the provocative conclusion that because African Americans are "mismatched" at law schools where they are set up to fail, ending affirmative action at ABA-accredited law schools would actually increase the number of African American attorneys. Yet an independent analysis by a coalition of legal scholars and civil rights groups demonstrates that Sander's study is plagued by an alarming number of methodological errors and false assumptions. EJS is collaborating with leading legal scholars and social scientists, including David Chambers and Rick Lempert at the University of Michigan Law School, a team organized by Christopher Edley, dean of Boalt Hall Law School, and a group convened by UCLA/Columbia law professor and African American Policy Forum executive director Kimberlé Crenshaw, to independently analyze Sander's data and assumptions. On behalf of EJS, I will co-author a response with Chambers and Lempert that will be submitted to the Stanford Law Review, and my longer critique of Sander, titled "Dubious Data, Problematic Paradigm," will soon be posted on the EJS website. If
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The Equal Justice Society is a national organization of scholars, advocates and concerned individuals advancing innovative legal strategies and public policy for enduring social change. We generate critical analysis on issues of race and social justice through research, public education and bringing together individuals from diverse backgrounds and disciplines. Our goal is to reshape jurisprudence to ensure that the rights of all are expanded, rather than diminished, by our courts and policy makers. Equal Justice Society, 220 Sansome St, 14th Flr, San Francisco, CA 94104, Ph (415) 288-8700 |