Advocates for diversity in the legal profession have long identified the Law School Admission Test as a major barrier to black and Hispanic law school applicants because on average they score lower than do whites and Asians-Americans.
The blame is misplaced, University of Virginia School of Law professor Alex Johnson, Jr. argues in an article titled “Knots in the Pipeline for Prospective Lawyers of Color: The LSAT Is Not the Problem and Affirmative Action Is Not the Answer.” It appears in the latest edition of the Stanford Law & Policy Review.
