UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION CASES
ARGUED BEFORE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT ON APRIL 1, 2003
DECIDED JUNE 23, 2003
Briefs:
Bush Administration amicus
brief filed in Michigan law school case
University of Michigan brief filed in the undergraduate
case
University of Michigan brief filed in the law school
case
Social Scientists amicus brief
(excerpted)
--Research Memo on economic analysis cited
in amicus brief
Plaintiffs' brief and reply
brief in the undergraduate case
Plaintiffs' brief and reply
brief in the law school case
University of Michigan web
site on both cases
--Page linking to the University's
briefs and amicus briefs filed in support of the University
Center for Individual Rights (represents the plaintiffs in both cases)
Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, in conjunction with the
Oyez Project, offers continually updated coverage of the cases pending before
the United States Supreme Court on its Docket
web site.
--Feature
story and links for the undergraduate case
--Feature
story and links for the law school case
Civil Rights Project at Harvard University web site
Cunningham, Loury & Skrentny, PASSING STRICT SCRUTINY: USING SOCIAL SCIENCE TO DESIGN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PROGRAMS , 90 GEORGETOWN LAW JOURNAL 835 (April 2002) (pre-publication draft; discusses Michigan cases on pp. 17-27 and 53-57 of draft)
Clark D. Cunningham, Outline on Michigan cases prepared for conference on "Discrimination, Diversity, and Public Policy" sponsored by the Washington University Program on Social Thought and Analysis held on March 29-30, 2003 in St. Louis, Missouri.
Clark D. Cunningham, Lessons
on Affirmative Action from India," 1 The Subcontinental: A Journal
of South Asian American Political Identity 51-56 (Summer 2003) (Special
Issue on Affirmative Action).
Clark D. Cunningham, Affirmative Action: Comparative
Policies and Controversies," International Encyclopedia of the Social
and Behavioral Sciences (2002)
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