How does a racially diverse student body affect education at Boalt?
The legal education of all students is enriched in the presence of a critical mass of students with diverse experiences and backgrounds, including students from a wide range of racial and ethnic backgrounds. A racially and ethnically diverse student body ensures a robust exchange of ideas with the faculty and throughout the school-inside and outside the classroom, in Boalt Hall student organizations and through the school’s nine student-edited law journals. Students training to become lawyers benefit from early exposure to the needs and backgrounds of people from many walks of life, especially people who are traditionally underrepresented or disadvantaged in society. In the absence of such a student body, legal education is diminished in this important dimension. Q: What steps will the law school take to improve the recruitment of minorities in the future? A: Boalt Hall is carefully reviewing its admissions processes to see whether improvements are possible. It also is thinking about e
