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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Sep. 4, 2008

Affirmative Action Ensures Disaffected Groups Access to the Law

We cannot ever be a truly democratic nation, with laws genuinely authored by the People, so long as important groups affected by the law lack sufficient access to its inner workings, writes Robin Bradley Kar. - Forum Column

FORUM COLUMN

By Robin Bradley Kar
This article appears on Page 6

      Within the law school context, there are special and compelling reasons to promote affirmative action that have not yet been sufficiently appreciated. Indeed, the reasons I have in mind probably cannot be fully appreciated except by lawyers. And yet the reasons are not obvious; they relate to the quality of our democratic processes. Hence, even we ...

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