Randall Kennedy is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is the author of several books and his newest, For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law, will be published in September by Pantheon Books.
Viewpoint: The Goal of Affirmative Action Should Not Be ‘Diversity’ but Righting Wrongs
Our misguided Supreme Court has invited a barrage of new attacks on affirmative action based on the wrong principle