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Minority Graduates from Michigan Law School: Differently Successful

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Robert L. Nelson  and
Monique R. Payne
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Lempert, Chambers, and Adams (2000; hereafter LCA) make an important contribution to both the debate on affirmative action in legal education and the sociology of the legal profession. We find their empirical results credible and agree with their interpretations of the data related to arguments about the role of affirmative action in Michigan's admissions policies. Yet, in crafting an analysis to demonstrate the similarities in the career outcomes of minority and white graduates, they have minimized evidence that points to substantial continuing patterns of inequality by race and gender within the legal profession. Moreover, LCA only begin to illuminate the mechanisms that produce the career patterns they document. Of particular importance is the question of how race, class, and gender interact to shape lawyers' careers-a topic LCA largely reserve for future analyses.

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“From The Trenches and Towers”
Information
Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , Spring 2000 , pp. 521 - 526
Copyright
Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2000 

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