Sep 17 2015 Blog Post News Commission on Civil Rights Releases Flawed Report on Immigration Detention Facilities Alison E. Somin Yesterday, the United States Commission on Civil Rights* released a new report* on conditions at...
Sep 14 2015 Blog Post News NYT Misses the Mark on Mismatch Alison E. Somin This past weekend, the New York Times ran a lengthy article titled "A Prescription for...
Sep 9 2015 Blog Post Executive Branch Review The EEOC as Unwise Gambler Alison E. Somin All federal court opinions that begin with Kenny Rogers quotations are worth blogging about, even...
Sep 2 2015 Blog Post Executive Branch Review "A Dubious Expediency: How Racial Preferential Admissions on Campus Hurt Minority Students" Carissa Byrne Hessick, Alison E. Somin "We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer...
Feb 19 2014 Publication Federalist Society Review A Lady or a Tiger?: Thoughts on Fisher v. University of Texas and the Future of Race Preferences in America Alison E. Somin Engage Volume 14, Issue 3 October 2013 Note from the Editor: This article is about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Fisher...
Feb 12 2013 Publication Federalist Society Review Sleeping Giant?: Section Two of the Thirteenth Amendment, Hate Crimes Legislation, and Academia’s Favorite New Vehicle for the Expansion of Federal Power Gail L. Heriot, Alison E. Somin Engage Volume 13, Issue 3 October 2012 A brief look at the Thirteenth Amendment might suggest that it has rather limited application...
Dec 5 2011 Publication Federalist Society Review Affirmative Action for Men? Strange Silences and Strange Bedfellows in the Public Debate over Discrimination Against Women in College Admissions Gail L. Heriot, Alison E. Somin Engage Volume 12, Issue 3, November 2011 While some news reports indicate that discrimination against women on the basis of sex1 in...
Dec 23 2010 Publication Federalist Society Review The Obama Administration: Changing the Rules of the Title IX Game? Alison E. Somin Engage Volume 11, Issue 3, December 2010 "Making Title IX as strong as possible is a no-brainer," Vice President Joe Biden told...
Aug 5 2010 Publication White Papers Title IX Alison E. Somin New Federal Initiatives Project Brought to you by the Civil Rights Practice GroupThe Federalist Society takes no position on...
Commission on Civil Rights Releases Flawed Report on Immigration Detention Facilities
Yesterday, the United States Commission on Civil Rights* released a new report* on conditions at...
NYT Misses the Mark on Mismatch
This past weekend, the New York Times ran a lengthy article titled "A Prescription for...
The EEOC as Unwise Gambler
All federal court opinions that begin with Kenny Rogers quotations are worth blogging about, even...
"A Dubious Expediency: How Racial Preferential Admissions on Campus Hurt Minority Students"
"We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer...
A Lady or a Tiger?: Thoughts on Fisher v. University of Texas and the Future of Race Preferences in America
Alison E. Somin
Engage Volume 14, Issue 3 October 2013
Note from the Editor: This article is about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Fisher...
Sleeping Giant?: Section Two of the Thirteenth Amendment, Hate Crimes Legislation, and Academia’s Favorite New Vehicle for the Expansion of Federal Power
Gail L. Heriot, Alison E. Somin
Engage Volume 13, Issue 3 October 2012
A brief look at the Thirteenth Amendment might suggest that it has rather limited application...
Affirmative Action for Men? Strange Silences and Strange Bedfellows in the Public Debate over Discrimination Against Women in College Admissions
Gail L. Heriot, Alison E. Somin
Engage Volume 12, Issue 3, November 2011
While some news reports indicate that discrimination against women on the basis of sex1 in...
The Obama Administration: Changing the Rules of the Title IX Game?
Alison E. Somin
Engage Volume 11, Issue 3, December 2010
"Making Title IX as strong as possible is a no-brainer," Vice President Joe Biden told...
Title IX
Alison E. Somin
New Federal Initiatives Project
Brought to you by the Civil Rights Practice GroupThe Federalist Society takes no position on...