Sherrie Kossoudji is an associate professor of social work and adjunct associate professor of economics. She has written numerous articles on the legal status of immigrant workers in the U.S. and the incentives to cross the border illegally. Kossoudji has also written on wealth disparities for immigrants. Contact: 734-763-6320, [email protected].
“Today's SCOTUS announcement opens the door for the forced separation of mothers and children, fathers and children, and mothers and fathers. This decision will have sweeping social consequences as families are devastated because of deportation.”
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Richard Primus is an expert in the law, history and theory of the U.S. Constitution and a former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He's available to discuss the opinions in the affirmative action case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. "Fisher is the triumph of Justice Ginsburg's perspective on affirmative action," he said. "Race-conscious decision making is now clearly acceptable." Contact: 734-647-5543 (after June 26), [email protected]; through June 26, call Jared Wadley, 734-936-7819 Richard Friedman, the Alene and Allan F. Smith Professor of Law, is an expert on evidence and U.S. Supreme Court history. "Justice Kennedy's opinion for a bare majority of a seven-member Court seems designed to resolve this particular litigation, which has a unique history, and decide as little else as possible," he said. "Even the University of Texas cannot be sure that its program would survive another challenge in several years. "Perhaps the most notable aspects of the opinion are that Justice Kennedy embraces the benefits of holistic admissions processes that consider race and that he suggests that Top Ten Percent plans like Texas' are constitutionally vulnerable." Contact: 734-476-4586, [email protected]