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Yesterday, The New York Times notes that, although the Latina Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination is groundbreaking, her educational background (Princeton, Yale Law) conforms to the pronounced tilt (especially post-1950) toward Ivy grads in Supreme Court nominations. Does it matter? Should anyone care about educational diversity? The Times quotes a couple of academics who think so (“There is both a funneling and homogenizing effect from these schools”), as well as Fulbright & Jaworski partner Linda Addison(Texas, Texas Law) who goes as far as to say “Educational diversity would strengthen the court, as have racial, ethnic, gender and religious diversity… In the future, I also would love to see a nominee from a first-rate public law school.”
-posted by brian
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