Life After Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard | Old Parkland Conference

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Now that the Supreme Court has found racial preferences in college admissions to be unconstitutional, how will elite higher education respond? Will they abandon racial preferences or work harder to conceal them? Legal experts will discuss the implications of the Students for Fair Admissions decision for admissions offices and what’s to come in the battle over affirmative action. Speakers: Rick Banks, Devon Westhill, Renu Mukherjee, and Mene Ukueberuwa Highlights from the Event | OLD PARKLAND CONFERENCE 2024 Inspired by the 1980 Fairmont Conference and building on the success of the 2022 Old Parkland Conference, the 2024 Old Parkland Conference brought together leaders …

CEO Celebrates Victories for Colorblind Equal Opportunity

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Dear friends, We have much to celebrate this Independence Day. From the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act to the 1st anniversary of the monumental Students for Fair Admissions Supreme Court decisions. We at CEO are overjoyed at the continued wins we are notching for colorblind equal opportunity in America. Many of them, however, are not as flashy as the passage of major civil rights legislation or a Supreme Court win but can be just as important. And, for 30 years now, CEO has been a major contributor to the fight to stop identitarian division anywhere we find it. …

Affirmative Action One Year Later: A Conversation with Devon Westhill 

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This article originally appeared on Philanthropy Round Table This month marks the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decisions in the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and the Students Against Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina cases. These seminal decisions ended racial preferences in college admissions processes, also known as affirmative action, after the court ruled in 2023 that the schools were violating the civil rights of certain students based on race.   Philanthropy Roundtable Adjunct Senior Fellow Patrice Onwuka spoke with Devon Westhill, president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO), about the ripple effect …

Peter Abernathy joins CEO as Visiting Legal Fellow

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The Center for Equal Opportunity is excited to welcome back to the team Peter Abernathy as Visiting Legal Fellow. Peter returns to CEO after participating in CEO’s inaugural Civil Rights Fellowship in 2022. Peter is a 2024 graduate of George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and currently serving as a law clerk to the Hon. Caroll A. Weimer of the Thirty-First Circuit Court of Virginia. Before college, Peter served for two years as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Londrina, Brazil. After concluding his full-time missionary service, Peter earned dual degrees in Geospatial …

Equality and Equity: Contemporary Debates about Civil Rights in the Era of DEI

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A Luncheon Discussion on Civil Rights When:Wednesday, May 22, 202412:00 – 2:00 PM ET Where:The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Ave NWWashington, DC 20036 Cost:This event is free to attend.Registration is required.Lunch will be provided. The event will be livestreamed onThe Federalist Society YouTube channel. Registration is not required to view the livestream. On July 2, 1964, the Civil Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson after having overcome one of the fiercest and longest filibusters in the history of the United States Senate. The new law marked an historic victory for civil rights activists seeking equal opportunity …

NEW PAPER: Individual Dignity as the Foundation of an Inclusive Society

Devon WesthillRacial Preferences

Dear friends, I am elated to share with you a new paper written by two CEO contributors, Cory Liu and Anthony Pericolo. Cory was an instructor in our Second Annual Civil Rights Fellowship where he taught a session on affirmative action in the immediate aftermath of the Students for Fair Admissions decisions. Anthony is CEO’s first Visiting Legal Fellow and was also a law student fellow in CEO’s inaugural 2022 Civil Rights Fellowship. Both gentlemen continue to graciously donate their time to CEO while working fulltime in private law practice. The paper, which will be published in Volume 77 of …

CEO Selects Third Annual Class of Civil Rights Fellows

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Dear Friends, It is with great joy that we introduce to you the 2024 class of CEO civil rights fellows. Between Monday, August 5 and Friday, August 9, 2024, fellows will participate in an intensive seminar-style program in Washington, D.C. This fellowship is a first-of-its-kind program within which fellows receive instruction and training in civil rights caselaw, enforcement practices, and public policy. For example, fellows will learn the history of major civil rights laws, become familiar with major Supreme Court decisions in this area, and learn about current controversies surrounding civil rights law and enforcement. The seminars will be led by law and policy experts, …

ACR Project and CEO File Brief Challenging SEC Approval of Discriminatory NASDAQ Requirement

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The ACR Project and the Center for Equal Opportunity together filed an amicus brief on behalf of Cory R. Liu with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, supporting a challenge to the SEC’s 2021 approval of NASDAQ’s alteration of its listing requirements.  Those requirements force listed companies to: (a) disclose how many directors they have; and (b) (i) produce stats showing a sufficiently “diverse” set of directors across various identitarian classifications to satisfy NASDAQ; or (ii) explain in writing why they don’t.*, ** Our full brief is below. Building on Mr. Liu’s work in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard/UNC, where …

2024 CEO Civil Rights Fellowship Begins Accepting Applications

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It is with great joy that the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) announces and begins accepting applications today for its 2024 Civil Rights Fellowship. The program, which will take place between August 5-9, 2024 is intended for law students with an interest in a career in a public, private, or nonprofit setting where their instruction and training can be shared with the public, the courts, and/or through policy development. LEARN MORE Related posts: TESTIMONY OF ROGER CLEGG, PRESIDENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL, CENTER FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY BEFORE THE U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS REGARDING THE PROPOSED EMPLOYMENT NON-DISCRIMINATION ACT CEO Launches Inaugural …

Supreme Court opens door even wider for racial discrimination in schools

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Apparently, eliminating racial discrimination doesn’t mean eliminating all of it. That seems to be the takeaway from the Supreme Court’s refusal last month to grant a review of Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board. It has been no secret to anyone that the Fairfax County, Virginia, board and administrators at Thomas Jefferson High School — who were sued — had colluded in changing the admissions process at the school intentionally to discriminate against high-achieving 13- and 14-year-old Asian applicants. The Wall Street Journal reported two years ago on the text messages and emails between the powers that be …