SUNY Buffalo Law School faces discrimination complaint over ‘students of color’ program

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The Equal Protection Project filed a federal civil-rights complaint against SUNY’s Buffalo School of Law for running a summer program that gives preference to “students of color” …

In UBL’s brochure for the DLUSP, the law school states that the program “focus[es] on students of color,” in order “to diversify law school classes” with the ultimate goal of “mak[ing] the legal profession look more like America.”

If applicants are not “students of color,” they are automatically excluded from consideration unless they can demonstrate that they are first-generation college students, the complaint said.ban the use of race-conscious admissions policiesA conservative group challenging the policy in two cases argues they discriminate against Asian American applicants, in Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.

“The open racial preferences at SUNY Buffalo law school show why ‘race-conscious’ admissions currently under consideration at the Supreme Court must be ended. What starts as ‘race-consious’ invariably devolves into racism,” the Equal Protection Project complaint said. Founder of EqualProtect.org William A. Jacobson said, “A law school above all should be familiar with the law, particularly such clear law as it prohibits discrimination on the basis of race or color.”Jacobson said EPP “will not allow discrimination on the basis of race or color to go unnoticed or unchallenged, particularly at major government institutions such as the SUNY system. We make no exceptions for law schools, which must abide by the same laws as apply to others.

But the public university brass says such content is integral to so many existing courses that the need can generally be met by students fulfilling existing requirements.

 

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