Above the Law
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007City Journal has this interesting article about the use of racial preferences in higher education to promote diversity (a practice the author calls “socially engineered racial proportionality”).
It focuses on the University of California, including Berkeley’s Boalt Law School, and on efforts by administrators to get around a provision in the state’s constitution banning racial preferences in higher education.
The article raises several points that advocates of racial preferences in law school admissions are likely to find annoying.
Caution: a quick survey of some of the author’s writings (so many of which deal with race-related matters) suggest that she’s not an ideal rationalist.