Sandra Day O'Connor and Stewart J. Schwab (United States Supreme Court and Cornell Law School) has posted Affirmative Action in Higher Education Over the Next Twenty-Five Years: A Need for Study and Action on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Affirmative action in higher education remains controversial and vexing. Few people argue that consideration of race in college or law-school applications would be the best policy in an ideal world. In that world, skin color would be treated like eye color (or perhaps like one's religion, whose differences the ideal world would tolerate and celebrate but not rank invidiously). In today's America, however, race still matters in painful ways.
