Vinay Harpalani

Publications

• Caste-ing and Recasting Race in Equal Protection Jurisprudence
  85 MD. L. REV. 142 (2025) · Maryland Law Review · 2025
• Missing the Trees for the Forest: How Progressives Neglect Anti-Asian Animus in Magnet School Admissions Controversies
  113 CAL. L. REV. 943 (2025) · California Law Review · 2025
• Roberts Rules of (Dis)Order: Doctrinal Doublespeak on Affirmative Action and Stare Decisis
  77 SMU L. REV. 61 (2024) · SMU Law Review · 2024
• The Racial Triangulation of Asian American Achievement
  75 UC L.J. 1625 (2024) · UC Law Journal · 2024
• "With All Deliberate Speed": The Ironic Demise of (and Hope for) Affirmative Action
  76 SMU L. REV. F. 91 (2023) · SMU Law Review Forum · 2023
• Original Intent, Racial Equality, and the Conundrums of “Colorblindness”
  83 MD. L. REV. 231 (2023) · Maryland Law Review · 2023
• Testing the Limits: Asian Americans and the Debate over Standardized Entrance Exams
  73 S. C. L. REV. (2022) · South Carolina Law Review · 2022
• "Trumping" Affirmative Action
  66 VILL. L. REV. (2022) · Villanova Law Review (1956 - ) · 2022
• Racial Triangulation, Interest-Convergence, and the Double-Consciousness of Asian Americans
  37 GA. ST. U. L. REV. 1361 (2021) · Georgia State University Law Review · 2021
• Can “Asians” Truly Be Americans?
  27 WASH. & LEE. J. C. R. & SOC. JUST. 559 (2021) · Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice · 2021
• Civil Rights Law in Living Color
  79 MD. L. REV. 881 (2020) · Maryland Law Review · 2020

• “Safe Spaces” and the Educational Benefits of Diversity
  13 DUKE J. CONST. L. & PUB. POL'Y 117 (2018) · Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy · 2018
• Narrowly Tailored but Broadly Compelling: Defending Race-Conscious Admissions After Fisher
  45 SETON HALL L. REV. (2015) · Seton Hall Law Review · 2015
• To Be White, Black, or Brown? South Asian Americans and the Race-Color Distinction
  14 WASH. U. GLOBAL STUD. L. REV. 609 (2015) · Washington University Global Studies Law Review · 2015

• Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Awakening: A South Asian Becoming Critically Aware of Race in America
  11 BERKELEY J. AFR.-AM. L. & POL'Y 71 (2009) · Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy · 2009