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96 Iowa L. Rev. 1549 (2010-2011)
The Importance of Student and Faculty Diversity in Law Schools: One Dean's Perspective

handle is hein.journals/ilr96 and id is 1559 raw text is: The Importance of Student and Faculty
Diversity in Law Schools: One Dean's
Perspective
Kevin R. Johnson*
I. INTRODUCTION        ................................................. 1550
II. THE EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS OF STUDENT DIvERSITY.............. 1551
A. GRUTTERV. BOLLINGER....................I.............  552
B. POLIcY ARGUMENTS AGAINST RACE-CONSCIOUS ADMISSIONS
SCHEMES     .................................................. 1554
III. EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS OF FACULTY DIVERSITY. .................. 1556
A. THE BENEFIS OFFACULTY DIVERSITY TO TEACHING .............. 1557
B. THE BENEFITS OFFACULTY DIVERSITY TO LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP....... 1562
C. PRACTICAL PROBLEMS IN MEASURING FACULTY DIVERSITY.............. 1563
1. How Much Diversity? The Need for a Critical Mass. 1563
2. Who Counts?                 ......1564
IV. THE IMPORTANCE OF A BROAD CONCEPTION OF DIVERSITY TO A
LEGAL EDUCATION    ............................................. 1566
A. BROAD NOTIONS OFDIVERSITYINBAKKE AND GRUTTER................. 1566
B. DIVERSYTY IN TIMES OF (RACIAL) LIMITS..... ............... 1569
V. INCENTIVE SYSTEMS FOR LAW SCHOOLS AND DEANS, THE U.S. NEWS
RANKINGS, AND THE QUEST FOR DIVERsIy............... ......... 1572
VI. CONCLUSION         ................................................... 1577

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Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies,
University of California at Davis School of Law; A.B., University of California, Berkeley; J.D.,
Harvard University.

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