September 7, 2007
Civil-Rights Commission Pressures Law Schools on Affirmative Action
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights angered advocates of affirmative action last week by seeking to subject the race-conscious admissions policies of law schools to greater scrutiny while trying to free the institutions from pressure by an accreditor to keep such policies in place.
In a report based largely on a June 2006 hearing on law schools' affirmative-action efforts, a solid majority of commission members called on federal and state officials to prod law schools into releasing
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