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Constructing Reality: Social Science And Race Cases, Beverly I. Moran
Constructing Reality: Social Science And Race Cases, Beverly I. Moran
Northern Illinois University Law Review
"Constructing Reality: Social Science and Race Cases" was the keynote address for the 2004 Northern Illinois University Law Review Symposium on the future of affirmative action after the Michigan affirmative action case known as Grutter v. Bollinger. The essay looks at the use of social science in the amicus briefs before the Supreme Court in that case. The author points out that social sciences were used in almost all the amicus briefs to either attack or defend affirmative action. This insight leads the author to argue that, because judges bring their understandings of the world into their decision making, lawyers …