For Immediate Release
September 24, 2007

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Kara Tershel, (202) 662-9500

WASHINGTON, D.C. - H. Kumar Percy Jayasuriya, associate law librarian at Georgetown University Law Center, has co-edited a five-volume publication about two key Supreme Court cases that address the legality of race-based admissions policies.

"Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger Litigation Documents: A Documentary History of Affirmative Action in Higher Education" (Hein, 2007) was co-edited with Roy M. Mersky, professor and director of the law library at the University of Texas School of Law. The publication chronicles the history of two landmark cases and offers insights into the current state of race relations in the United States.

The work contains all public documents submitted during the Supreme Court litigation, as well as extensive finding aids, bibliographies and background information. The editors have also included all briefs filed before the Supreme Court, transcripts of oral arguments, lower court opinions and the final decisions of both cases.

This publication is part of Jayasuriya's ongoing effort to record major cases regarding affirmative action in higher education. His previous work is "Hopwood v. Texas Litigation Documents."

 

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