Roger Clegg

President & General Counsel for the Center for Equal Opportunity

Roger Clegg is president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity. He focuses on legal issues arising from civil rights laws, including the regulatory impact on business and the problems in higher education created by affirmative action. A former deputy assistant attorney general in the Reagan and Bush administrations, Clegg held the second-highest positions in both the Civil Rights Division (1987–91) and the Environment and Natural Resources Division (1991–93). He has held several other positions at the U.S. Justice Department, including assistant to the solicitor general (1985–87), associate deputy attorney general (1984–85), and acting assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Policy (1984). Clegg is a graduate of Yale University Law School.

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The Equal Protection Clause Forbids Racial Preferences in State University Admissions

With Deborah Archer, Erwin Chemerinsky, Roger Clegg, Stuart Taylor Jr.
December 3, 2015

The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides that: "No State shall … deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Yet many state universities give substantial preferences to certain races in their admissions decisions. In Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), the Supreme Court approved such preferences, but the case was close, and controversial, and the question will be back before the Supreme Court this term. One side may argue that…

The Equal Protection Clause Forbids Racial Preferences in State University Admissions

With Deborah Archer, Erwin Chemerinsky, Roger Clegg, Stuart Taylor Jr.
December 3, 2015

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The Equal Protection Clause Forbids Racial Preferences in State University Admissions

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