January 21, 2005

Race, class and the race to get in class

Wayne State Law School Dean Frank Wu takes issue with UCLA Professor Richard H. Sander's recent paper arguing that eliminating racial preferences in law schools will actually result in more, not fewer, black lawyers. "He (Sander) uses old data from 2001 to support his claims that without affirmative action there would only be a 14 percent decline in the number of African-American law school applicants. If Sander had used new data from 2002 and 2003 there would be a more significant decline of 35-45 percent of African-American applicants," Wu says.

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