Search by...
Results should have...
  • All of these words
  • Any of these words
  • This exact phrase
  • None of these words
Keyword searches may also use the operators
AND, OR, NOT, “ ”, ( )

Beginning of article

LEGAL MANEUVERING: Law schools struggle to produce despite affirmative action bans

Years ago, law schools did not so much recruit applicants as wait for them to apply, and then pick the best and the brightest. However, a ban on affirmative action policies and a decline in the overall applications and enrollment of potential law students has changed the recruitment efforts of law schools across the country.

The ban against affirmative action was felt immediately at the University of California-Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law. After California voter initiative Proposition 209 passed, 14 African Americans were admitted to the school in 1997, All opted not to attend the …