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When the University of Michigan Law School denied admission to Barbara Grutter, a Michigan resident with a 3.8 GPA and 161 LSAT score, [2] she filed this suit, alleging that respondents had discriminated against her on the basis of race in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as 42 U.S.C. § 1981; that she was rejected because the Law School ...
Texas (5th Cir. 1996) that the University of Texas School of Law could not use race as a factor in admissions. This was the first successful legal challenge to racial preferences since Bakke . Two cases in 2003 involving the University of Michigan found that the university's policy of granting extra points to minorities for undergraduate ...
The University of Michigan Law School (Bollinger) disagreed and stated that there was a compelling state interest to use racial affirmative action to build a "critical mass" of minority students. In Justice Powell's diversity rationale, the Supreme Court stated "the student body diversity is a compelling state interest that can justify the use ...
Bollinger is currently the Seth Low Professor and a faculty member at Columbia Law School. [2] He is a legal scholar of the First Amendment and freedom of speech . [ 3 ] While serving as President of the University of Michigan, he was at the center of two notable United States Supreme Court cases regarding the use of affirmative action in ...
The West publication is Michigan Compiled Laws Annotated (MCLA); the LexisNexis version is the Michigan Compiled Laws Service (MCLS). Until the year 2000, an alternate codification known as the Michigan Statutes Annotated (MSA), which differed from the MCL in both its organization and numbering system, was also in use. Until the discontinuation ...
"Abuse of Rights in France, Germany, and Switzerland: A Survey of a Recent Chapter in Legal Doctrine". Louisiana Law Review. 35 (5): 1016– 36. Michael Byers. “Abuse of Rights: An Old Principle, A New Age”, McGill Law Journal 47 (2002): 389–431. David Johnson. “Owners and Neighbours: From Rome to Scotland”, in The Civil Law Tradition ...
Margo Jane Schlanger (born 1967) is a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, and the founder and director of the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse. [1] Previously, she was at Washington University School of Law. [2]
Prior to going to the University of Michigan, Caminker was a faculty member at the UCLA School of Law from 1991 to 1999. [ 6 ] [ 3 ] He has practiced law with the Center for Law in the Public Interest in Los Angeles, and as a deputy assistant attorney general in the United States Department of Justice . [ 3 ]