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One of the biggest challenges I face in leading the Law School Admission Council is also one of the most rewarding parts of my job: advancing access and equity through law and legal education. While the challenge comes from the structural inequities in society that only grow deeper without keen vigilance and productive action, the reward comes from working with our member schools and others who join in LSAC’s mission to “bend the arc” toward justice.
In writing the majority ruling on the 2003 Supreme Court case Grutter v. Bollinger, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor dreamed that within 25 years this country might no longer need to consider race as a factor in admission to higher education. Fifteen years later...