Jun 23 2016 Topics Federalism & Separation of Powers Blog Post News "Affirmative Action Gone Wild?": Supreme Court Upholds Race Preferences in Fisher v. University of Texas II William C. Rempel, Alison E. Somin I like to think I am unusually gifted at political prognostication because, in 2004, I...
Mar 23 2016 Topics Civil Rights • Federalism & Separation of Powers Blog Post News Two Members of U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Criticize Racially Themed Housing on College Campuses Alison E. Somin Should colleges and universities be in the business of operating racially separate “theme housing?” Two...
Mar 22 2016 Topics Federalism & Separation of Powers Blog Post News Should Congress Enact the Blue Lives Matter Act of 2016? Alison E. Somin Recently, Representative Ken Buck introduced the Blue Lives Matter Act of 2016, which would amend...
Feb 6 2016 Topics Civil Rights • Federalism & Separation of Powers Blog Post News The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and Russia Today Steffen N. Johnson, Alison E. Somin Yesterday, Commissioners Gail Heriot and Peter Kirsanow sent a letter explaining why they had declined to...
Dec 15 2015 Topics Federalism & Separation of Powers Blog Post News Fisher II, Academic Mismatch, and the Constitution: A Legal Issue, or Just a Policy One? Alison E. Somin Following Justice Scalia's controversial question about mismatch research at the Fisher v. Texas oral argument, some commentators have...
Dec 15 2015 Blog Post Fisher II, Academic Mismatch, and the Constitution: A Legal Issue, or Just a Policy One? Matthew Vadum, Alison E. Somin Following Justice Scalia's controversial question about mismatch research at the Fisher v. Texas oral argument, some...
Dec 10 2015 Topics Federalism & Separation of Powers Blog Post News On Heightening the Contradictions of Grutter v. Bollinger: Thoughts on the Fisher v. UT Oral Argument Craig Chosiad, Evan H. Caminker, Maura Corrigan, Alison E. Somin Yesterday, Justice Scalia's controversial question about mismatch theory at the Fisher v. UT oral argument...
Dec 9 2015 Topics Civil Rights • Federalism & Separation of Powers Blog Post News Justice Scalia and Mismatch Alison E. Somin It was the oral argument question that launched a thousand progressive blog posts. "Scalia: Black Students...
Oct 7 2015 Topics Environmental Law & Property Rights Blog Post News Eminent Domain and Race Alison E. Somin Eminent domain is in the news again because of ever-controversial presidential candidate Donald Trump's remarks that the condemnation...
Oct 5 2015 Topics Federalism & Separation of Powers Blog Post News Supreme Court Preview: Of Fisher II and Paper Tigers Alison E. Somin “There are not many dull moments in the debate about race preferences in university admissions....
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"Affirmative Action Gone Wild?": Supreme Court Upholds Race Preferences in Fisher v. University of Texas II
I like to think I am unusually gifted at political prognostication because, in 2004, I...
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Two Members of U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Criticize Racially Themed Housing on College Campuses
Should colleges and universities be in the business of operating racially separate “theme housing?” Two...
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Should Congress Enact the Blue Lives Matter Act of 2016?
Recently, Representative Ken Buck introduced the Blue Lives Matter Act of 2016, which would amend...
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The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and Russia Today
Yesterday, Commissioners Gail Heriot and Peter Kirsanow sent a letter explaining why they had declined to...
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Fisher II, Academic Mismatch, and the Constitution: A Legal Issue, or Just a Policy One?
Following Justice Scalia's controversial question about mismatch research at the Fisher v. Texas oral argument, some commentators have...
Fisher II, Academic Mismatch, and the Constitution: A Legal Issue, or Just a Policy One?
Following Justice Scalia's controversial question about mismatch research at the Fisher v. Texas oral argument, some...
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On Heightening the Contradictions of Grutter v. Bollinger: Thoughts on the Fisher v. UT Oral Argument
Yesterday, Justice Scalia's controversial question about mismatch theory at the Fisher v. UT oral argument...
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Justice Scalia and Mismatch
It was the oral argument question that launched a thousand progressive blog posts. "Scalia: Black Students...
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Eminent Domain and Race
Eminent domain is in the news again because of ever-controversial presidential candidate Donald Trump's remarks that the condemnation...
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Supreme Court Preview: Of Fisher II and Paper Tigers
“There are not many dull moments in the debate about race preferences in university admissions....