The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Brief of the American Bar Association as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents in Grutter v. Bollinger

Legal Brief - February 18, 2003 -

• Full participation of all racial and ethnic groups in the legal profession is a compelling state interest, in order for effective representation of all people and a more inclusive legal system that better protects the rights of, and is more accessible to, the people it governs.
  
• Full participation of all racial and ethnic groups in the legal profession is a compelling state interest, in order for effective representation of all people and a more inclusive legal system that better protects the rights of, and is more accessible to, the people it governs
  
• Supreme Court has sanctioned the use of race-conscious admissions policies by institutes if higher education since 1978
  
• Race-conscious admissions are essential to increasing minority representation in legal profession