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80 St. John's L. Rev. 167 (2006)
Misuse of the Law School Admissions Test, Racial Discrimination, and the De Facto Quota System for Restricting African-American Access to the Legal Profession

handle is hein.journals/stjohn80 and id is 169 raw text is: THE RONALD H. BROWN CENTER FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SYMPOSIUM MISUSE OF THE LAW SCHOOL ADMISSIONS TEST, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, AND THE DE FACTO QUOTA SYSTEM FOR RESTRICTING AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACCESS TO THE LEGAL PROFESSION JOHN NUSSBAUMERt INTRODUCTION Efforts during the past ten years to diversify America's law schools by enrolling more African-American students have failed because those responsible for law school admissions and accreditation practices have created a de facto and racially discriminatory quota system that restricts African-American access to the legal profession. African-Americans comprise approximately 13% of the United States population.' The total number of African- Americans enrolled at all ABA-approved law schools peaked in t Professor and Associate Dean, Thomas M. Cooley Law School at Oakland University, member of the National Bar Association Law Professors Division, and member of the ABA Section of Legal Education Diversity Committee. Cooley Law School enrolls more African-American students than any other ABA-approved law school in the country except for Howard University School of Law. See ABA-LSAC OFFICIAL GUIDE TO ABA-APPROVED LAW SCHOOLS 2006, at 26, 29 (2005). I wish to thank Cooley-Oakland students Philip Vera and Andrew Meier, and St. John's Law Review for its help with this Article. 1 JESSE MCKINNON, U.S. CENSUS BUREAU, CENSUS 2000 BRIEF: THE BLACK POPULATION tbl.1 (2001), available at http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/ c2kbr01-5.pdf.

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