Eva Paterson

Welcome to the launch of
our first EJS Newsletter!

The past year has been an amazing one for all of us here at EJS. Our friend David Halperin has the best analogy for what we have been doing…"We're building the plane as we fly it!" This describes how we have all felt during an exciting period of growth and development. We realize that we haven't had an opportunity to tell all of our friends and supporters about our achievements in the past year. And we hope that this first edition of our bi-monthly e-Letter will help you understand the wonderful work we have been doing.

In our first year alone, the Equal Justice Society organized and hosted three remarkable conferences of law professors, social scientists and advocates to provide a progressive analysis of issues concerning race in our society. We published and distributed Preserving Diversity In Higher Education, a complex manual and legal guide for university admissions officers committed to maintain diversity in higher education. And, in a year observing the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, we have been compelled to publicly defend diversity in higher education in California, Michigan and Texas.

We have focused the three aspects of our work - conferences, research and public education - in this first year on race and racial justice. Next year at our Fourth Annual Conference, to be held at UCLA (April 8-9 - Save the Dates!), we will broaden our work to analyze corporate law and the impact of conservative legal theory on economic justice in our society.

STORIES IN THIS ISSUE

Contents

Welcome to the launch of our first EJS e-newsletter!

Racial Justice and Affirmative Action: The Year in Review

SF Reception for EJS Board Chair, Professor Charles Ogletree

Notes on the Right

Preserving Diversity in Higher Education: A Manual on Admissions Policies and Procedures After the University of Michigan Decisions

EJS Law Review Summary:
Dismantling the Intent Doctrine: Five Key Law Review Articles

The Justice Journal - EJS Calendar of Events

EJS Staff News

Making Change - Become a Part of the Equal Justice Society

In all our work, we are trying to share current critical thinking about issues of race and social justice among academics, legal scholars, activists and the public. Through a regular column by our friend Lee Cokorinos we hope to help you understand how the Right has become so dominant in our legal system and the development of legal, social and economic policy. Our Research Director, Susan Serrano, will share with you highlights of the exchanges and new developments among our circle of progressive academics and researchers. And our EJS staff will keep you abreast of our calendar of events, articles of interest and our own efforts to challenge the Right through public debate and education.

Please take a minute to browse through our inaugural issue and join us as a member and supporter of the Equal Justice Society. We can make a difference together.

Eva