CWSL Hosts Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author and Essayist Louis Menand

SAN DIEGO (March 11, 2024) -- California Western School of Law hosted Pulitzer-Prize winning author and essayist Professor Louis Menand for “Bakke, Roots and Branches,” his highly engaging lecture on the legacy of Regents of the University of California v Bakke, the seminal 1978 case that upheld race-based affirmative action programs in education and was recently overturned by SFFA v Harvard. 

Menand is the Lee Simpkins Family Professor and Arts and Sciences and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard. His books include The Metaphysical Club, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2002. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2001, which he began writing for in 1991. In 2016, President Barack Obama awarded Menand with the National Humanities Medal.