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18 Sep 2007, 11:02 pm
Dan Walters of the Sacramento Bee has an interesting perspective on the UC's twin scandals--the hiring, firing and apparently the re-hiring of Erwin Chemerinsky as dean of the fledgling UC-Irvine Law School and the hiring and thus far unrepentent firing of former Harvard University President Larry Summers as a mere speaker. I won't comment tonight on the relative merits of each of these cases on academic freedom grounds. (I'm sleepy and would like to get to bed… [read post]
14 Dec 2006, 5:00 pm
UC President Richard Atkinson made headlines a few years ago by calling for "a more well-rounded approach to admissions decisions"-one that phases out the SAT and instead emphasizes what applicants "have accomplished during four years of high school, taking into consideration their opportunities." Atkinson's announcement of a "holistic" admissions policy that takes into consideration a whole range of things--from extracurricular activities to family income and… [read post]
3 Feb 2008, 1:39 pm
I went to the opera Friday night. It was Tannhauser. (Yes, of course I cried at the end. Didn't you?) The only irritating aspect of the evening was a conspicuous mention in the program that "Supervisor Pam Slater-Price and the County of San Diego" had donated over $200,000 to the San Diego Opera. No, no, no, no, no. Supervisor Slater-Price did not contribute $200,000 to the opera. San Diego taxpayers… [read post]
16 May 2007, 4:43 pm
Gosh! They don't make royals like they used to. When Queen Elizabeth, the current queen's mother, was asked during World War II whether she would be getting her daughters--then-Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret--out of London during the harrowing Blitz, she replied: "The girls will not leave unless I do. I will not leave unless the King does. And the King will not leave under any circumstances whatsoever." Wonderfully put. Maybe… [read post]
17 Jan 2007, 9:47 am
Loyal Right Coast readers may recall the posts I did back in March about the new ABA accreditation standards for law schools on diversity. If not, take a look. (David Bernstein has also published extensively on the subject at the Volokh Conspriracy and in the Wall Street Journal.) Since then, in an effort to learn how the ABA has applied its diversity requirements in the past (as well as learn a little bit about how law school themselve influence the racial composition of their classes),… [read post]
23 Dec 2007, 7:10 pm
This semester my employer required me to take a training course on sexual and other illegal workplace harassment. USD didn't adopt this policy by choice; California law requires it. Alas, the course, turned out to be an annoying piece of propaganda. Here's what I (and untold thousands of other Californians) "learned": 1. White Guys Can Be Scary. The core situation in the computer training course is a tendentious incident in which a recently-promoted black, female bank… [read post]
22 Jan 2007, 4:43 pm
This is awful. Provost Peter Lange evidently draws very different lessons from the Duke "rape" case than I do. To me it's about how three college kids can come within inches of having their lives ruined (and it's not over yet) all on account of wild accusations of rape that should have been (and were) recognized to be incredible from the start. If you are not yet convinced of this, it's your duty as a citizen to read about the evidence in Stuart Taylor… [read post]
12 Apr 2008, 12:49 am
This is troubling. Back during the trial before Judge Bernard Friedman in Grutter v. Bollinger, Richard Lempert, Eric Stein University Professor of Law and Sociology, testified as an expert on behalf of his employer, the University of Michigan Law School. At issue, of course, was the constitutionality of the Law School's admissions policy, which granted very substantial affirmative action preferences to black and Hispanic students. Lempert assured the… [read post]
1 May 2018, 5:30 am
Who would have thought the Equal Rights Amendment would stage a comeback? Yet at least on the surface, that might seem to be happening. Nevada ratified the amendment in 2017. A few weeks ago the Illinois Senate did the same. Some of the ERA's cheerleaders argue that only two more states should be needed. Still, appearances can be deceiving. Many readers may already know about the deadline issues: When Congress initially passed the ERA in 1972 it set a deadline for ratification of March 22,… [read post]
[Gail Heriot] Burning Widows and Other Things That Even "Multicultural" Americans Shouldn't Tolerate
30 Apr 2018, 5:34 am
Charles Napier, a 19th century official of the British Empire in India, well understood the limits of cross-cultural tolerance. When told by Hindu leaders that it would be inappropriate for him to interfere with the "national custom" of burning widows alive on their husband's funeral pyre, he responded: Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property.… [read post]
23 Jul 2007, 6:19 pm
Loyal Right Coast readers know how unhappy I am about Macy's taking over Marshall Field's. Now Macy's sales are way down, the corporation may be the target of a leveraged buyout,and the Chicago Health Department has just closed down the food court restaurants at the State Street Store. (No, thank heaven, not the Walnut Room; that would be unthinkable....) I wish I knew how to pronounce schadenfreude .... [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 5:08 am
Motives matter under the law. So what was the College of Charleston's motive for its sudden change?Fast Action! On July 29, 2018, the Charleston Post and Courier ran a story entitled Affirmative Action Comes to a Quiet End at College of Charleston. It explained that in 2016, the College of Charleston stopped considering race as a factor in its admissions process. Yet in 2017 the proportion of non-white students had increased slightly to just shy of 20%. The proportion of African Americans… [read post]
8 Jun 2018, 1:01 pm
George Wythe isn't exactly an unsung hero of the American Founding. The Marshall-Wythe Law School at the College of William & Mary is named for him. But as a signatory to the Declaration of Independence, a Constitutional Convention delegate, and a mentor to John Marshall, Thomas Jefferson, St. George Tucker, Bushrod Washington, and Henry Clay, he probably deserves to be "sung" a bit more than he is. One thing Wythe probably wouldn't have wanted is to be famous for his death.… [read post]
22 May 2024, 5:30 am
Diversity, and Students for Fair Admissions: A New Day, a New Clarity—Maimon Schwarzschild and Gail [read post]
5 Jun 2007, 1:33 pm
Loyal Right Coast readers know what a Marshall Field's fanatic I am, and how unhappy I was at the foolish decision of Federated Department Stores (now called Macy's Inc.) to absorb Field's into Macy's. (If you want to know why, click here, here, here, here, here, and here.) Well, business continues to be bad for Macy's. While Nordstom, Saks and J.C. Penney have posted healthy increases in same-store sales, sales at… [read post]
26 Jul 2018, 5:10 am
Metcalf v. United States gives the Supreme Court the opportunity to decide.A few days ago, Peter Kirsanow and I submitted an Amicus Curiae Brief supporting the Defendant's Petition for Certiorari in Metcalf v. United States. In it, we argue that Section 249(a)(1) of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 (the "HCPA") is unconstitutional. For Congress's authority to pass Section 249(a)(1), it purported to rely on the Thirteenth Amendment, which… [read post]
13 Jan 2022, 3:28 am
Gail Heriot wrote in defense of Alexander at Instapundit: Editor-in-Chief Danielle Kerker sent [read post]
4 Jan 2022, 4:42 am
[The editors withdrew their publication offer.] [UPDATE, from Eugene Volokh: For those who want to review it for themselves, here's an 11-page PDF of Larry Alexander's article.] Being a conservative can make it a little harder to get one's articles published in a traditional law review. And if one is writing about race or sex, it can be quite a bit harder. (I don't even try; I go straight for the specialty law reviews that were founded in part for the purpose of ensuring that… [read post]
29 Aug 2007, 12:45 am
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, a comment to a post by David Bernstein suggests that a recent study by Jesse Rothstein and Albert Yoon may go a long way toward disproving Sander's mismatch thesis (that racial preferences have actually reduced the number of African American lawyers). I don't think so--not yet anyway. Here is what I've written on the subject: Recently, an article by Jesse Rothstein and Albert Yoon, although couched as a criticism of Sander, actually… [read post]
10 Nov 2006, 12:03 am
Has University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman come unhinged? You'd think so from the speech she gave Wednesday. Upset over the landslide in favor of Proposal 2 (the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative), she began her speech this way:Diversity matters at Michigan, today more than any day in our history. It matters today, and it will matter tomorrow. It will always matter because it is what makes us the great university we are. I am deeply disappointed that the voters of our… [read post]
