Law school affirmative action hurts blacks

William Voegeli at the Claremont Institute has an excellent piece describing the results of a study done by a Professor Richard Sander of UCLA published in the Stanford Law Review. It concludes:

"Blacks are the victims of law school programs of affirmative action, not the beneficiaries." According to Stuart Taylor, Jr.'s summary of Sander's research, preferences do such a thorough job of placing black students in law schools where they are unlikely to succeed, that abolishing affirmative action in admissions would decrease the number of blacks admitted to law schools—but increase the number who graduate and pass the bar exam.

The second half is an excellent discussion of liberalism and its addiction to compassion and charity expressed in issues like affirmative action

This one is worth your time.