California voters may have outlawed racial preferences, but that hasn’t stopped Berkeley’s law-school dean, Christopher Edley, from using law-school resources to push for their reinstatement, according to the NYT:

Now Mr. Edley, in his third year at Boalt Hall, as the law school here is known, finds himself defending affirmative action policies intended to overcome barriers like those his father confronted.
The job is a challenge; under California law, the law school cannot use race as a factor in admissions. But tackling that challenge was an important reason he took it. …
Mr. Edley said he hoped that research by one of the new institutes, the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity, will provide ammunition to supporters of using race in admissions.

Here’s how the CJEWIRED describes this aspect of its mission :

California’s Proposition 209: Research on the consequences of banning race-sensitive affirmative action; analysis of the legal limits on aggressive efforts to promote inclusion in higher education; formulation and execution of a research agenda to inform future public consideration of revisions or repeal.