John McGinnis

John Oldham McGinnis is an American legal scholar at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and author of over 90 academic and popular articles and essays.

from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1980, and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1983.

McGinnis was also a litigation associate at the prestigious Sullivan & Cromwell, and a clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

[1] He uses this to attack the "viewpoint diversity" justification that the U.S. Supreme Court used to permit law schools to give racial minorities an advantage in their admissions processes.

His argument is that law schools are not, and probably should not be, committed to political viewpoint diversity in the hiring process (implying that they should not use affirmative action-like techniques in recruiting and admitting students).