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Article: Civil rights panel: law school affirmative action may hurt blacks.(United States. Commission on Civil Rights sues American Bar Association)
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- Diverse Issues in Higher Education
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- July 13, 2006
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Is American Bar Association-mandated affirmative action among U.S. law schools ultimately helping or hurting prospective Black attorneys?
At a hearing last month in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights openly challenged the ABA's affirmative action policy. Prior to the hearing, commission members sent letters to the U.S. Department of Education requesting that the ABA's accrediting authority be revoked unless it drops its affirmative action requirement.
The Republican-controlled USCCR is up in arms over a revised ABA provision that calls for law schools to demonstrate "concrete action" toward promoting diversity among students, faculty ...