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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Sep. 6, 2007

Affirmative Inaction

Forum Column - By Richard Sander, Jane Yakowitz and William Henderson - Why has the State Bar of California impeded the efforts of a bipartisan group of law professors who are attempting to uncover the reality of race-based law-school admissions?

FORUM COLUMN

By Richard Sander, Jane Yakowitz and William Henderson

      A couple of years ago, some 20 graduates from an elite California law school sat for the notoriously challenging State Bar Exam. As they started writing, all of the students probably thought that they had an excellent chance of passing: The school's average success rate on the exam had been close to 90 percent in recent years.
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