“Bakke is really the case that gave us diversity as the constitutional value that it continues to be to this day,” said Brian Soucek, UC Davis School of Law professor and the law review’s faculty advisor. spotlighted Harvard University’s admissions policy as a model for taking race into consideration as one of many factors in admissions. In his oft-cited opinion in the case, Justice Lewis F. But the court did not reject affirmative action, only specific quotas. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Bakke, ordering he be admitted to the medical school, from which he graduated in 1982. Bakke, who is white, contended the university violated his 14th Amendment rights by saving 16 slots in a class of 100 for students of color. The case originated when Allan Bakke filed suit after being denied admission to the UC Davis School of Medicine. Justice Melissa Hart of the Colorado Supreme Court also participated. Johnson of UC Davis and Mario Barnes of the University of Washington Dean Emerita Rachel Moran of the UCLA law school and other scholars from several UC campuses and Duke and Yale universities. Participants included law school deans Kevin R. 26, “Bakke at 40: Diversity, Difference and Doctrine,” drew top legal experts to King Hall to discuss the lasting impact of the 1978 decision in Regents of the University of California v. At the podium: UCLA’s Devon Carbado, law professor and associate vice chancellor of BruinX for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
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