Yale Law's Diversity Decreases After Affirmative Action's Death Knell
There are now fewer students of color at Yale Law. What does diversity look like at other leading law schools?
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You have to certainly expect there’s going to be a significant reduction of Black students in our selective higher education institutions, and especially our elite ones, like Yale Law School. And that is a tragedy.
— Professor Kevin Brown of Indiana University Bloomington’s Maurer School of Law, a Yale Law alumnus, in comments given to the Yale Daily News, on the decrease in racial diversity for the school’s Class of 2027, the first class admitted without affirmative action, down to 50% compared with 57% for the Class of 2026.
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