Daily Read: Sanders on Fisher v. UT

Why should courts deciding constitutional questions give deference to a bunch of professors? 

ConLawProf Steve Sanders (pictured) poses this query with reference to the Court's decisionmaking in Fisher v. University of Texas in his brief essay over at SCOTUSBlog (part of SCOTUSBlog's terrific Fisher Symposium).

The best answer, Sanders tells us, "is that faculty members’ educational judgments are formed by the specialized training, engagement with scholarly disciplines, and daily classroom experience they bring to their work, and judges lack these things."

An interesting take on academic freedom in the context of affirmative action.

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