MEMBERS OF AMICUS GROUP FOR THE ADARAND BRIEF

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Joshua Aronson, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, New York University. His research focuses on the effects of racial stereotypes on the academic achievement, attitudes and self-esteem of minority students. He has conducted numerous studies examining how awareness of stereotypes interferes with performance on standardized tests, thus offering an alternative account to genetic and cultural account for race and gender differences in testing and school performance. His most recent work offers innovative methods of improving the performance of African American college students. His awards for research include a Spencer fellowship and a James S. McDonnell fellowship. His publications include, "Stereotype threat and the academic performance of minorities and women," in J. Swim and C. Stangor (Eds.), Prejudice: The target's perspective, Academic Press (with Diane Quinn and Steven Spencer); "Stereotype threat and the intellectual test performance of African-Americans," 69 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 797 (with Claude Steele); and "How stereotypes influence the standardized test performance of talented African American students," in C. Jencks & M. Phillips (Eds.), Black-White Test Score Differences Harvard Press (with Claude Steele).

Clark D. Cunningham, Professor of Law, Washington University. He has been a visiting scholar at the Indian Law Institute, Sichuan University in China, the University of Sydney, and the National Law School of India. He received an Indo-American Fellowship for a comparative study of civil rights litigation in the Supreme Courts of India and the United States, and directed a U.S.-India Ford Foundation project, Enforcing Human Rights Through Law School Clinics. His publications include "Affirmative Action: Comparative Policies and Controversies," International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2001 forthcoming); "Affirmative Action: India's Example," 4 Civil Rights Journal 22 (Fall 1999); "Race, Class, Caste ...? Rethinking Affirmative Action," 97 Michigan Law Review 1296 (1999) (with N.R. Madhava Menon); and "Why American Lawyers Should Go to India," 16 Law & Social Inquiry (Journal of the American Bar Foundation) 777 (1991).

Marc Galanter, John & Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law and South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison and LSE Centennial Professor, Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the former Director of the Institute of Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, past president of the Law and Society Association, a former editor of Law & Society Review, and past chair of the Association of American Law Schools' Section on Law and Social Science. His publications include Competing Equalities (1984), an extensive, empirically-based study of India's affirmative action programs for untouchables and other backward classes, as well as Law and Society in Modern India (1989) and Tournament of Lawyers (1991) (with Thomas M. Palay).

Glenn C. Loury, University Professor, Professor of Economics, and Director of the Institute on Race and Social Division, Boston University. He is an economic theorist, with publications in the fields of game theory, industrial economics, natural resources and economics of income inequality. He has been a scholar in residence at Oxford University, Tel Aviv University, the University of Stockholm, the Delhi School of Economics, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and was elected Vice President of the American Economics Associations for 1997. His publications include "Will Affirmative Action Policies Eliminate Negative Stereotypes?", 83 American Economic Review 1220 (1993) (with Stephen Coate); "The Incentive Effects of Affirmative Action," 523 Annals of the American Association of Political and Social Science 19 (September 1992); and One by One, From the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America, which won the 1996 American Book Award and the 1996 Christianity Today Book Award.

John David Skrentny, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California-San Diego. Professor Skrentny is the author of The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture & Justice in America (1996), "Affirmative Action and New Demographic Realities," The Chronicle of Higher Education B7 (February 16, 2001), and the editor of Color Lines: Affirmative Action, Immigration, and Civil Rights Option for America (forthcoming 2001). His primary areas of research and teaching interest are in politics, policymaking, law, social movements, ethnicity, and culture. Substantively, his research has focused on policy and lawmaking for rights and opportunities for disadvantaged groups in American society. He is currently finishing another book, titled The Minority Rights Revolution, which explores the development of public policy designed to benefit minorities in the United States in the 1960s and 70s. His work has appeared in Theory and Society, Research in Political Sociology, Sociological Forum, and other academic journals. Skrentny is a former National Science Foundation Fellow and Fellow of the Princeton University Center for Human Values.