TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 3, 2022

Legal educators, law student organizations, bar associations and law firms this week flooded the U.S. Supreme Court with amicus briefs asking it to uphold the use of affirmative action in college admissions, Reuters reports. The 15 groups filing briefs included the American Bar Association, the National Black Law Students Association, the National Women’s Law Center and the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association. They argue that affirmative action is key to diversifying the legal profession and addressing bias in the justice system and while race-conscious policies have helped grow the pipeline of minority lawyers, diversity still lags. The case before the court seeks to bar Harvard University and the University of North Carolina from considering race in undergraduate admissions.