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EDITOR’S NOTE

By Eve López, Newsletter Editor

MUJERES LÍDERES FUERTES

In an increasingly diverse nation and integrated global political economy, a pipeline to the
legal field opens opportunities for Latinas with our lived experiences to meaningfully
influence decisions on issues that are important to us and our communities.

A diverse student body provides a richer learning environment than a homogeneous one
and better prepare students to succeed and thrive in the incredibly diverse real world of

clients. If Latinas do not fill these seats in numbers more reflective of our population, our
voices and faces will continue to be absent from the table (or in the case of 2020) from
the Zoom meetings where critical political and legal decisions are made.

Last year, on October 13, the Supreme Court of the United States granted an
ʿʿ If Latinas do not enter fill emergency stay siding with the Trump administration and allowing it to immediately

halt collection of the census data instead of at the end of October. Supreme Court
these seats in numbers
more reflective of our Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the only Justice to dissent and rightfully emphasize
population, our voices and how the decision would disproportionately affect marginalized populations and in
faces will continue to be
absent from the table (or hard-to-count areas such as rural and tribal lands.
in the case of 2020) from In the landmark decision of Gruttler v. Bollinger 539 U.S. 306 (2003), the U.S. Supreme
the Zoom meetings where Court proclaimed diversity is a compelling interest that can justify the narrowly tailored
ʾʾ the 18 years since the decision, are our law students less homogeneous?
critical political and legal
decisions are made. use of race when public universities select applicants for law school admission. In

SOWHO’S GOINGTOLAWSCHOOL? LA EVIDENCIA…

According to the June
2020 American Bar
JD Enrollment 1999-2019
Foundation article
by Miranda Li, Phillip

Yao and Goodwin Liu,
black students and
Hispanic students are
disproportionately
enrolled in lower-
ranked schools.

Source ABA

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