Beyond DeFunis: Disproportionate Impact Analysis and Mandated "Preferences" in Law School Admissions.

Zimmer, Michael J.

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Beyond DeFunis: Disproportionate Impact Analysis and Mandated "Preferences" in Law School Admissions

Zimmer, Michael J.

North Carolina Law Review, 42, 3, 317-88, Feb 76

DeFunis v. Odegaard involved an unsuccessful challenge by a white law school applicant to a program for the "preferential" admission of members of certain minority groups. This article suggests that such programs are not only constitutionally permissible but mandated when there has been a failure to promote racial integration. (LBH)

Descriptors: Admission (School), Civil Rights Legislation, Constitutional Law, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Law Schools, Legal Responsibility, Minority Groups, Racial Integration, White Students

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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Defunis v Odegaard

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