Debating Affirmative Action in Law Schools:

Writing in Slate, Emily Bazelon contends that the critiques of Richard Sander’s Stanford Law Review article on affirmative action “pounce” on the argument, “destroy” it, and “throw” so many “punches” that the debate became a “bloodletting” that left Sander speechless. I haven’t followed the back-and-forth very closely — some of Sander’s assumptions seemed a bit off to me when I first skimmed his piece, but this is hardly my field — but I’m wondering if any VC readers have read the critiques and agree with Bazelon’s assessment. I have enabled comments; links to the various responses are availible from Slate.