Foreword
Eleven years ago, Michigan was at the center of two landmark U.S Supreme Court cases that defined how racial preferences could be used in admissions at public colleges. Now Michigan is back — only this time it’s defending its attempt to do away with minority admissions policies entirely. In Granz v. Bollinger (2003) and Grutter v. Bollinger (2003), the High Court narrowly upheld the University of Michigan Law School’s use of race as one factor among many that could foster a diverse student body. The University of Michigan undergraduate admission system that assigned bonus points to minorities in the application…
