Can College Admissions Consider Race?
18 December 2015
Gail Heriot, Professor of Law at the University of San Diego and a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, discusses the Supreme Court oral arguments in the affirmative action case of Fisher v. University of Texas and Justice Scalia's remarks that raised a controversy.
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