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Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181 (2023), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the court held that race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions processes violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College was dismissed in October 2019, and that ruling was subsequently upheld on appeal. In February 2021, however, SFFA petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States to review the case.
Maurice Paprin (uncle) Carol Lani Guinier ( / ˈlɑːni ɡwɪˈnɪər / LAH-nee gwin-EER; April 19, 1950 – January 7, 2022) was an American educator, legal scholar, and civil rights theorist. She was the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and the first woman of color appointed to a tenured professorship there. [1]
The President and Fellows of Harvard College, also called the Harvard Corporation or just the Corporation, is the smaller and more powerful of Harvard University 's two governing boards. It refers to itself as the oldest corporation in the Western Hemisphere. [1] At full capacity, as of 2024, the corporation consists of twelve fellows as well ...
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it will hear arguments on the constitutionality of state bans on gender-affirming care for transgender minors. Gender-affirming care includes a range of ...
Dissent. Binnie J., joined by McLachlin, Major, Arbour JJ. Harvard College v Canada (Commissioner of Patents) [2] is a leading Supreme Court of Canada case concerning the patentability of higher life forms within the context of the Patent Act. [3] At issue was the patentability of the Harvard oncomouse, a mouse that had its genome genetically ...
Drew Gilpin Faust 2007–2018 10 years, 11 months and 29 days First female president.
Harvard University's president was planning to submit three corrections to her 1997 dissertation after a committee investigating plagiarism allegations against her found that she had made citation ...