In the wake of Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College, affirmative-action proponents should pursue a First Amendment approach. Private universities, which are ...

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The Supreme Court decisions striking down the use of race in university admissions close an era that began about a half-century ago. What remains to be decided is whether the Court’s rulings open a ...

My article Expressive Discrimination: Universities' First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action has finally been published by the Florida Law Review. In these days of federal attacks on private DEI, ...

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Not the two young men who, in 1994, were hired by ABC News Radio in Los Angeles to host a nightly talk show. The 20-somethings in baseball caps got the gig because they were overachievers, superb ...

Affirmative action was the only reason MSNBC’s Joy Reid attended Harvard, the anchor insisted on Thursday. Reid made the point while appearing on "All In with Chris Hayes" to comment on the U.S.

Editor’s Note: Michael Gerhardt is the Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of North Carolina School of Law. He is the author of several books, including “The Power ...

No one particularly likes affirmative action. Why would we? It is an imperfect remedy designed to redress a shameful history — an ongoing history — of racism and exclusion. It requires that people be ...

Right now the Supreme Court holds the fate of affirmative action in its hands, and things don’t look good. Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin pits a school that believes affirmative action and ...