BRIEF ANALYZING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

TRPI, the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, just published a brief analyzing affirmative action in U.S. law schools and found that ending affirmative action would leave many Latinos and African Americans behind. The brief opens by saying, "there are roughly 80,000 Latino and African American attorneys and judges in the United States compared with about 6,200 in 1970. Much of this remarkable thirteen-fold increase is due to the presence of affirmative action policies at law schools."

This brief was commissioned to refute the claims of a highly publicized Stanford Law Review article that argued that "affirmative action at law schools depressed the number of African Americans who become lawyers by 'mismatching' them at schools where they were in over their heads academically."

Note: TRPI is not a partner of, nor automatically endorses the opinions of, this campaign.