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Who Gets In? The Quest For Diversity After Grutter, Athena D. Mutua, Sheldon Zedeck, Frank H. Wu, Charles E. Daye, Margaret E. Montoya, David L. Chambers
Who Gets In? The Quest For Diversity After Grutter, Athena D. Mutua, Sheldon Zedeck, Frank H. Wu, Charles E. Daye, Margaret E. Montoya, David L. Chambers
Athena D. Mutua
On March 8, 2004, the University at Buffalo Law School hosted its annual Mitchell Lecture,1 a panel discussion entitled, "Who Gets In? The Quest for Diversity After Grutter." The Mitchell Committee decided to focus this year's lecture on innovative proposals to ensure diversity in law school admissions in light of the Supreme Court's ruling in Grutter v. Bollinger, which confirmed that race and ethnicity could be taken into consideration in admission decisions for diversity purposes. Noting that much of the debate about Grutter thus far has emphasized the decision's constitutionality or its implications for affirmative action, the Committee sought to …
Restoring Justice To Civil Rights Movement Activists?: New Historiography And The “Long Civil Rights Era”, Athena D. Mutua
Restoring Justice To Civil Rights Movement Activists?: New Historiography And The “Long Civil Rights Era”, Athena D. Mutua
Athena D. Mutua
The paper engages ongoing discussions about the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project. This Project has been organized to support efforts to rectify and account for the tremendous cost to civil rights activists and supporters of participating in the civil rights movement. These efforts include, for instance, fresh prosecutions against perpetrators of old hate crimes, including cases against the killers of Medger Evers and the three Mississippi Freedom Summer workers. The question the paper asks is: what do Project participants mean when they talk about the civil rights era? The short answer is that the Project organizers initially conceptualized the …