Legal Education's Reaction To The Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Decisions

Update:  More Legal Education Reaction To The Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Decisions (July 5, 2023)

• Seattle Law School, Supreme Court Affirmative Action Decisions — Rapid Response Webinar (today at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET) (registration) (speakers)
• AALS, Achieving Diversity without Affirmative Action Conference (July 10) (program) (speakers)

• Will Baude (Chicago), The Unsurprising Affirmative Action Decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard
• Stephen Carter (Yale), Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Ruling Follows Half-Baked Logic
• Michael Dorf (Cornell), About that Loophole: Good Luck, Admissions Officers
• Michael Dorf (Cornell), Precedents Out of Context in the Harvard/UNC Affirmative Action Ruling
• Mark Graber (Maryland), "History" and History in Students for Fair Admissions
• William Jacobson (Cornell), Clarence Thomas Reading His Epic Takedown Of KBJ’s Affirmative Action Dissent Left Her “Visibly Angry”
• William Jacobson (Cornell), SCOTUS “Gave Universities a Narrow Opening, and Harvard Just Announced It’s Going to Drive an Affirmative Action Truck Right Through It”
• Brian Leiter (Chicago), The Supreme Court's Affirmative Action in Admissions Decision
• Michael Simkovic (USC), To Circumvent Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ban, Harvard Will Shift to Diversity Statements
• Ilya Somin (George Mason), Thoughts on the Supreme Court's Ruling in the Harvard and UNC Racial Preferences Cases
• Law.com, Legal Academia Disappointed—but Undeterred—by SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling (quoting Marc Miller (Arizona), Angela Onwuachi-Willig (Boston University), Aaron Taylor (Executive Director, AccessLex Institute), Anthony Varona (Dean, Seattle), Kevin Washburn (Dean, Iowa))
• Reuters, Post-Affirmative Action, These Law Schools May Provide Path For Others (quoting Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean, UC-Berkeley))
• Reuters, U.S. Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Ruling a ‘Headwind’ for Lawyer Diversity, Experts Say (quoting Angela Onwuachi-Willig (Boston University), Aaron Taylor (Executive Director, AccessLex Institute), Kellye Testy (President, LSAC), Anthony Varona (Dean, Seattle))

• Chronicle of Higher Education, ‘Destructive’ and ‘Devastating’: Dissenting Justices Denounce Majority Ruling in Admissions Case
• Chronicle of Higher Education, U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Race-Conscious Admissions Nationwide
• New York Times, In Affirmative Action Ruling, Black Justices Take Aim at Each Other
• New York Times, The End of Affirmative Action
• New York Times, Five Ways College Admissions Could Change
• New York Times, A Majority of Americans Say Race Should Not Be a Factor in College Admissions
• New York Times, Rejection of Affirmative Action Draws Strong Reactions From Right and Left
• New York Times, Supreme Court Rejects Affirmative Action Programs at Harvard and U.N.C.
• New York Times, ‘This Is Not a Normal Court’: Biden Denounces Affirmative-Action Ruling
• New York Times, With Supreme Court Decision, College Admissions Could Become More Subjective
• New York Times Editorial, The Supreme Court Turns ‘Equal Protection’ Upside Down
• New York Times Op-Ed (David Brooks), Affirmative Action Is Dead. Campus Diversity Doesn’t Have to Be.
• New York Times Op-Ed (David French), Harvard Undermined Itself on Affirmative Action
• New York Times Op-Ed (Tyler Harper (Bates College), I Teach at an Elite College. Here’s a Look Inside the Racial Gaming of Admissions.
• New York Times Op-Ed (Jerome Karabel (UC-Berkeley)), This Moment Is the Culmination of a Decades-Long Backlash Against Affirmative Action
• New York Times Op-Ed (Darren Walker (President, Ford Foundation), Repeal of Affirmative Action Is Only the Beginning
• SCOTUSblog, Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action Programs in College Admissions
• Wall Street Journal, Can Colleges Be Racially Diverse Without Affirmative Action? Experience Suggests No
• Wall Street Journal, Companies Expect New Challenges to Diversity Policies After Court Ruling
• Wall Street Journal, How Supreme Court Justices Sparred on Affirmative Action
• Wall Street Journal, Military Academies Exempt From Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Ruling
• Wall Street Journal, Some Schools See Opening in Affirmative-Action Ruling
• Wall Street Journal, Supreme Court Bans Affirmative Action: What It Means for College Admissions
• Wall Street Journal, Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action in College Admissions
• Wall Street Journal Editorial, A Landmark for Racial Equality at the Supreme Court
• Wall Street Journal Op-Ed (Ward Connerly), The End of Affirmative Action and the Long Road to Racial Equality Under the Law