Race and races: Cases and resources for a diverse America

JF Perea, R Delgado, AP Harris… - Santa Clara Univ …, 2007 - papers.ssrn.com
Santa Clara University School of Law Page 1 Santa Clara University School of Law Legal
Studies Research Papers Series Working Paper No. 07-25, June 2007 Race and Races: Cases …

Cracking the Egg: Which Came First: Stigma or Affirmative Action?

A Onwuachi-Willig, E Houh, M Campbell - California Law Review, 2008 - JSTOR
This Article examines the strength of arguments concerning the causal connection between
racial stigma and affirmative action. In so doing, this Article reports and analyzes the results …

The admission of legacy blacks

A Onwuachi-Willig - Vand. L. Rev., 2007 - HeinOnline
In June of 2006, the Los Angeles Times reported what it referred to as a" startling statistic at
UCLA." 1 According to the Times article, in the fall of 2006, only ninety-six of the 4852 …

Misuse and abuse of the LSAT: Making the case for alternative evaluative efforts and a redefinition of merit

PA Haddon, DW Post - . John's L. Rev., 2006 - HeinOnline
Introduction Recent studies of social inequality—the widening gap between rich and poor
and the lack of social mobility in the United States—all concur in one respect: it is easier to …

Fighting racism in the twenty-first century

DA Brown - Wash. & Lee L. Rev., 2004 - HeinOnline
[Flor several hundred years Negroes have been discriminated against, not as individuals,
but rather solely because of the color of their skins. It is unnecessary in twentieth-century …

Enhancing law school success: A study of goal orientations, academic achievement and the declining self-efficacy of our law students

LM Christensen - Law & Psychol. Rev., 2009 - HeinOnline
I have long been interested in how the most successful law students learn. For the top law
students, do they innately possess superior skills or can we teach law students the skills and …

Rise of the Testocracy: An Essay on the LSAT, Conventional Wisdom, and the Dismantling of Diversity, The

WC Kidder - Tex. J. Women & L., 1999 - HeinOnline
The ability to predict first-year law school grades is the raison d'être for using the Law School
Admission Test (LSAT) to select law school students. 3 Therefore, any analysis of gender or …

Predicting law school academic performance from LSAT scores and undergraduate grade point averages: A comprehensive study

DA Thomas - Ariz. St. LJ, 2003 - HeinOnline
I. Introduction According to the Law School Admission Council (LSAC), the entity that
administers the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), the LSAT helps" predict which students …

Power of Skills: An Empirical Study of Lawyering Skills Grades as the Strongest Predictor of Law School Success (or in Other Words, It's Time for Legal Education to …

LM Christensen - . John's L. Rev., 2009 - HeinOnline
I have long believed in the power of skills training in legal education.'Before beginning my
teaching career, I practiced law for several years. As a result of my practice experience, I …

The value of narrative in legal scholarship and teaching

JC Love - J. Gender Race & Just., 1998 - HeinOnline
Storytelling1—particularly storytelling written from an" outsider's" perspective2—is a new
form of legal writing that appears with increasing frequency on the pages of law reviews and …