Manifold | Richard Sander (UCLA Law) on the Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling — #38 @ManifoldPodcast | Uploaded July 2023 | Updated October 2024, 17 hours ago.
Richard Sander is Jesse Dukeminier Professor at UCLA Law School. AB Harvard, JD, PhD (Economics) Northwestern.
Steve and Richard discuss the recent Supreme Court ruling in Students For Fair Admissions vs Harvard and UNC.
Sander has studied the structure and effects of law school admissions policies. He coined the term "Mismatch" to describe negative consequences resulting from large admissions preferences.
0:00 Introduction
1:09 Richard Sander’s initial reaction to the Supreme Court ruling
4:03 How data influenced the court’s decision
7:58 Overview of the court’s ruling
11:27 Carve outs in the court’s ruling
16:59 The litigation landscape
21:25 Workarounds to race-blind admissions and the UC system
32:22 Remedies: What will happen with Harvard and UNC now?
38:02 The landscape of college admissions
44:47 Effects of the Supreme Court ruling beyond higher education
LINKS
SCOTUS decision on Affirmative Action:
int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/supreme-court-decision-on-race-based-admissions/0a725aaabb459074/full.pdf
Richard Sander on SCOTUS Oral Arguments: Affirmative Action and Discrimination against Asian Americans at Harvard and UNC: manifold1.com/episodes/richard-sander-on-scotus-oral-arguments-affirmative-action-and-discrimination-against-asian-americans-at-harvard-and-unc
Richard Sander: Affirmative Action, Mismatch Theory, and Academic Freedom: manifold1.com/episodes/richard-sander-affirmative-action-mismatch-theory-academic-freedom-6
Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.
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Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.
Please send any questions or suggestions to manifold1podcast@gmail.com or Steve on Twitter @hsu_steve.
Richard Sander is Jesse Dukeminier Professor at UCLA Law School. AB Harvard, JD, PhD (Economics) Northwestern.
Steve and Richard discuss the recent Supreme Court ruling in Students For Fair Admissions vs Harvard and UNC.
Sander has studied the structure and effects of law school admissions policies. He coined the term "Mismatch" to describe negative consequences resulting from large admissions preferences.
0:00 Introduction
1:09 Richard Sander’s initial reaction to the Supreme Court ruling
4:03 How data influenced the court’s decision
7:58 Overview of the court’s ruling
11:27 Carve outs in the court’s ruling
16:59 The litigation landscape
21:25 Workarounds to race-blind admissions and the UC system
32:22 Remedies: What will happen with Harvard and UNC now?
38:02 The landscape of college admissions
44:47 Effects of the Supreme Court ruling beyond higher education
LINKS
SCOTUS decision on Affirmative Action:
int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/supreme-court-decision-on-race-based-admissions/0a725aaabb459074/full.pdf
Richard Sander on SCOTUS Oral Arguments: Affirmative Action and Discrimination against Asian Americans at Harvard and UNC: manifold1.com/episodes/richard-sander-on-scotus-oral-arguments-affirmative-action-and-discrimination-against-asian-americans-at-harvard-and-unc
Richard Sander: Affirmative Action, Mismatch Theory, and Academic Freedom: manifold1.com/episodes/richard-sander-affirmative-action-mismatch-theory-academic-freedom-6
Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.
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Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.
Please send any questions or suggestions to manifold1podcast@gmail.com or Steve on Twitter @hsu_steve.
