Robert T. Palmer
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Howard University School of Education. His contributions to SAGE Publications Encyclopedia of Law and Higher Education (2010) formed the basis of his contributions to Britannica.
DeFunis v. Odegaard
DeFunis v. Odegaard, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5–4) in a per curiam (unsigned) opinion on April 23, 1974, that a constitutional challenge to the use of affirmative action in the admissions policy of a state-operated law school was moot because, by the time the case was…