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Titles of Nobility in America: ?Why elites do belong on the Supreme Court?

By Alliance Alert

Christopher Edley Jr., dean of the School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, writing in the Washington Post: "The gatekeeper power of such institutions is why it was so important to desegregate them (using affirmative action, among other tools) and why virtually all leaders of great universities talk about diversity and access. For about 40 years now, all the top law schools have tried to pick students who are not just brilliant but who have the potential to be outstanding leaders from and for all of America's communities. Today, "elite" doesn't carry the old-boy, classist, midcentury sense. In fact, law schools strive for an elitism that is quite democratic in comparison with many other fields. As at Yale and Harvard, we at Berkeley seek to build a campus community that is as exciting and diverse as our nation."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 17, 2010 (boomark / email).