College Admissions in a Post-Affirmative Action America With Jeannie Suk Gersen

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🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The Supreme Court effectively eliminated affirmative action in higher education this June with their rulings in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC. Harvard Law School professor Jeannie Suk Gersen sits down with Ravi to discuss college admissions in a post-affirmative action world and how colleges and universities will work to ensure they continue to enroll diverse student bodies. Leave us a voicemail with your thoughts on the show! 321-200-0570 Subscribe to our feed on Spotify: http://bitly.ws/zC9K Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3Gs5YTF Subscribe to our Substack: https://thelostdebate.substack.com/ Follow The Branch on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebranchmedia/ Follow The Branch on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebranchmedia Follow The Branch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebranchmedia The Branch website: http://thebranchmedia.org/ Lost Debate is also available on the following platforms: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lost-debate/id1591300785 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vTERJNTc1ODE3Mzk3Nw Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-lost-debate iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-lost-debate-88330217/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/752ca262-2801-466d-9654-2024de72bd1f/the-lost-debate

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome to a special episode of The Lost Debate Show. This is Robbie Gupta, and today I have a special guest, Jeannie So Gerson, who is the John H. Watson Jr., professor of law at Harvard Law School, where she has taught constitutional law, criminal law, procedure, family law, and the law of art, fashion, and the performing arts. She's also written many pieces for the New Yorker
0:23.8	about some of the topics we're going to talk about today, including affirmative action.
0:27.7	You may remember her from our earlier episodes on affirmative action about a year ago
0:32.3	when we set the stage for the decisions that we'll talk about today. Jeannie, welcome to the podcast.
0:39.1	Thank you.
0:40.2	All right.
0:40.5	Well, a year ago, we talked about the inevitable result that just happened a couple
0:45.9	months ago, this 6-3 decision of the Supreme Court to essentially strike down affirmative
0:52.1	action.
0:53.7	Was there anything surprising?
0:55.3	I feel like there was so much that you'd anticipated it in the earlier conversation we had,
0:59.4	but in reading that decision, was there anything you were like,
1:01.4	well, I did not expect that?
1:03.2	No, there wasn't anything that surprised me greatly,
1:07.2	but there were a few things that were notable to me.
1:10.2	There was some suspense beforehand about how much the decision would focus on discrimination
1:16.7	against Asian Americans in particular.
1:19.4	And that was answered by the decision being not very much focused on that.
1:24.6	It could seem like the concurrences, or what do you even call them?
1:28.0	Like, what would you call them?
1:29.7	I'm such a bad law student.
1:30.9	Non-controlling opinions.
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