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Elizabeth Slattery is a legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. Yesterday’s ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin was disappointing, to say the least.
Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, is author of The Remedy: Class, Race, and Affirmative Action, and the editor of The Future of Affirmative Action: New Paths to Higher Education Diversity after Fisher v. University of Texas.
Todd Henderson is Michael J. Marks Professor of Law & Mark Claster Mamolen Research Scholar at The University of Chicago Law School. When I joined the legal academy more than a decade ago, the topic of affirmative action in higher education was very much in the news.
John Paul Schnapper-Casteras is Special Counsel for Appellate and Supreme Court Advocacy at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in Washington, D.C. He participated in an amicus brief on behalf of the Black Student Alliance at the University of Texas at Austin, the Black Ex-students of Texas, Inc., and the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.
Elise C. Boddie is Professor of Law at Rutgers Law. The second installment of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin is a sound win for diversity and Grutter v. Bollinger‘s legacy. It also may have quietly pushed the frontiers of the Court’s race jurisprudence in two ways.
Kimberly West-Faulcon is the author of amicus briefs in Fisher I and Fisher II. She teaches constitutional law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, where she holds the endowed James P. Bradley Chair in Constitutional Law.
[Disclosure: As of June 1, I’m a member of the faculty at the University of Texas School of Law, the parent university of which was the respondent in Fisher II. Needless to say, what follows is my personal opinion, and in no way reflects the views of my employer.]