Trump’s Executive Orders, Culture Wars, and Civil Rights
Stanford's Rick Banks on the Doctrine of Disparate Impact and the Surprising Case for Meritocracy
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Trump-era executive orders, police hiring standards, and college admissions all converge in a decades-long debate over disparate impact, one of the most misunderstood yet consequential doctrines in civil rights law. In this episode of Stanford Legal, Professor Ralph Richard Banks, faculty director of the Stanford Center for Racial Justice, joins host Professor Pamela Karlan for a deep dive into how the disparate impact doctrine really works, why it matters, and what’s at stake when it’s…
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