Word: boalt
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...ballot initiative known as Proposition 209--such epithets are commonplace. But the young man in the Capitol was especially upset because the initial consequences of the university's new race-neutral policy were just being felt. In the first year without affirmative action at U.C. Berkeley's Boalt Hall law school, black admissions has dropped 81%, Hispanic admissions 50%. UCLA's law school reports a similar decline...
Einer R. Elhauge '83, a professor at Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California Berkeley, will teach a course on corporations, an elective in health care law, and a seminar on public choice theory and the law when he arrives in September...
...Deposed democratic leader Jean-Bertrand] Aristide and the people of his government have to be protected and that's the first priority. We must restore democratic civilian government," said Carolyn P. Blum, a professor at U.C. Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, who co-authored the letter with Anker...
TIPTOEING ALONG THE FINE LINE THAT SEPARATES affirmative action from reverse discrimination is a delicate act. At Boalt Hall, the law school of the University of California at Berkeley, they thought they had it right with an admissions policy that since 1968 has aimed for an enrollment of 23% to 27% minority students. But last week, after a two-year investigation, the Department of Education announced that Berkeley had gone too far in accommodating minorities. The university denied any wrongdoing but said it would consider dropping ethnicity or race as a determining factor in selecting law school applicants from...
...prolonged investigation of Boalt Hall has worried universities already struggling to chart a path between the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which outlaws racial discrimination, and the 1978 Supreme Court decision in the case of white medical school applicant Allan Bakke, which bans reverse discrimination and racial quotas...