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Richard Sander is Jesse Dukeminier Professor at UCLA Law School. AB Harvard, JD, PhD (Economics) Northwestern.

Sander has studied the structure and effects of law school admissions policies. He coined the term "Mismatch" to describe negative consequences resulting from large admissions preferences.

Topics discussed:

1. Early life: educational background and experience with race and

politics in America.

2. Mismatch Theory: basic observation and empirical evidence; Law

schools and Colleges; Duke and UC data; data access issues.

3. CA Prop 209 and Prop 16.

4. SCOTUS and Harvard / UNC admissions case

5. Intellectual climate on campus, freedom of speech

Resources:

Faculty web page, includes links to publications:

https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/richard-h-sander 

A Conversation on the Nature, Effects, and Future of Affirmative Action in Higher Education Admissions (with Peter Arcidiacono, Thomas Espenshade, and Stacy Hawkins), University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 683 (2015)   https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2625668

Fifteen Questions About Prop. 16 and Prop. 209, University of Chicago Law Review Online (2020)

https://lawreviewblog.uchicago.edu/2020/10/30/aa-sander/

Panel at Stanford Intellectual Diversity Conference, April 8, 2016, Stanford Law School

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RZbz-lHwVM

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