New York bar associations are encouraging law firms and schools to bypass the Supreme Court‘s landmark ruling overturning affirmative action and implement racial preferences for admissions, according to a new report.
The American Bar Association (ABA), the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), and the New York City Bar Association (NYCBA) all appear to tell law schools to “ignore” the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the Manhattan Institute reported on Thursday. The associations, writes researcher Renu Mukherjee, are advising schools to use methods that appear to be race-neutral, but are meant to still select for race.
“Law schools, for instance, are advised to continue granting admissions preferences to black and Hispanic applicants using methods that are race-neutral in theory but race-conscious in practice,” Mukherjee wrote….
