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Affirmative Action
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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Dahlia Lithwick: “Bad Heir Day: How Sandra Day O’Connor became the least powerful jurist in America”
On Monday, Dahlia Lithwick wrote in Slate:During the final weeks of the Supreme Court term, it was hard not to be struck by one recurring theme: Former Justice Sandra Day…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Parents Involved and the Future of Employer Diversity Plans
Over at SCOTUSblog, Eric Dreiband, a labor and employment partner with Akin Gump in Washington D.C., writes about the potential impact of the recent Supreme Court school affirmative action decisions…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Kalev, Dobbin & Kelly on Assessing the Efficacy of Corporate Affirmative Action and Diversity Policies
Alexandra Kalev (Berkeley), Frank Dobbin (Harvard), and Erin Kelly (Minnesota) have published in the American Sociological Review: Best Practices or Best Guesses? Assessing the Efficacy of Corporate Affirmative Action and…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Wash. Post on the Roberts Court’s Second Term
Via Robert Barnes of the Washington Post:In Second Term, Roberts Court Defines ItselfMany 5 to 4 Decisions Reflect Narrowly Split Court That Leans ConservativeThe stage is set in the final…
Labor Law Prof Blog
EEOC on Appropriate Job Language for College Job Announcements
The EEOC seems to have eased its requirement when it comes to what colleges and universities may say in their job announcements.Inside Higher Ed reports:The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Conference on Comparative Racial Justice
David Oppenheimer (Golden Gate) writes to tell us about an exciting conference on Comparative Racial Justice being hosted by his summer Paris program.Here are some of the details: Should Europe…
Empirical Legal Studies
Studying Affirmative Action: Some Unappreciated Complexities
One issue that has not been disputed to date in the litigation on race-based affirmative action has been whether schools that were sued to stop the preferential admission of minorities…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Recently-Published Scholarship
ArticlesSacha E. de Lange, Toward Gender Equality:Affirmative Action, Comparable Worth, and the Women's Movement, 31 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 315 (2007).D.A. Jeremy Telman, The Business Judgment Rule, Disclosure,…
The Right Coast
A Pessimistic Lee Bollinger Gail Heriot
The InsideHigherEd reports Lee Bollinger's recent thoughts on race-based admissions and the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative:Lee C. Bollinger, Columbia s president, said he was worried about another admissions issue. I…
The Right Coast
The Meaning of the Equal Rights AmendmentMike Rappaport
Ilya Somin (and to a lesser extent Eugene Volokh) have been arguing, more or less, that the text of the Equal Rights Amendment would be likely to be interpreted by…