Enrollment of Black students at Harvard Law School decreased after a Supreme Court decision banned the use of affirmative action in college admissions, according to the school’s enrollment data.
Harvard Law enrolled 19 first-year Black students (3.4% of the class), the lowest number since the 1960s, according to data from the American Bar Association. Last year, the law school’s first-year class had 43 Black students, according to an analysis by The New York Times.
Since 1970, 50 to 70 Black students have made up the law school’s first-year class, David B. Wilkins, a Harvard law professor who has studied Black representation in the legal profession, told the New York Times.
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