Town Hall

Does the University of Texas’s Use of Racial Preferences Violate the Constitution?

May 05, 2016

Law professors Elise Boddie, Rutgers School of Law-Newark, and Gail Heriot, University of San Diego Law School, debate issues surrounding affirmative action in Texas.

This Traveling Town Hall is at the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas, Texas.  

Partners with the National Constitution in presenting this program are The Federalist Society, the American Constitution Society and the John Templeton Foundation.

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