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U.S. SUPREME COURT RULING: RACE IN SCHOOLS
USC legal experts available
DARIA ROITHMAYR, law professor and expert on race and gender, can discuss all aspects of the decision, including its constitutional underpinnings, its relationship to earlier cases on affirmative action and race, implications of the case for institutions outside public schooling, and the meaning of the case as part of a shift towards judicial conservatism with the appointments of Justices Alito and Chief Justice Roberts.
Roithmayr can be reached at (213) 740-6228 (office) or (310) 367-1295 (cellular).
KAREEM CRAYTON, professor of law and politics, can discuss how the ruling may impact affirmative action, implications of the case for institutions outside public schooling, and the meaning of the case as part of a shift towards judicial conservatism with the appointments of Justices Alito and Chief Justice Roberts. He can also discuss how the ruling may play in the 2008 Presidential Race.
Crayton can be reached at (213) 740-2516 or
(213) 446-8800 (cellular).
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