Richard Henry Sander (born May 26, 1956) is an American legal scholar. He is the Jesse Dukeminier Professor in Law at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law and a critic of affirmative action. Sander is primarily known for producing the mismatch theory.

Richard Sander has been working on questions of social and economic inequality for nearly all of his career. He was born in Washington, D.C., but spent most of his childhood in small towns in northwest Indiana.

Mar 15, 2023 · In a new post, Sander recounts the history of his work on "mismatch" (the incoming academic qualifications gap between students who are favored in admission because they contribute to 'diversity...

Oct 2, 2012 · By Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr. October 2, 2012. Share. Save. michaeljung / Shutterstock. Affirmative action in university admissions started in the late 1960s as a noble effort to jump ...

Nov 4, 2022 · Richard Sander is an economist and the Dukeminier Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA. It’s now clear that a Supreme Court majority is poised to curtail or end the use of racial preferences ...

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In Mismatch, law professor Richard Sander and journalist Stuart Taylor, Jr. draw on extensive new research to prove that racial preferences put many students in educational settings where they have no hope of succeeding.

Richard Sander is an economist and law professor at UCLA, where he has taught since 1989 and where he serves as Director of the UCLA-RAND Center for Law and Public Policy. Most of his work draws on both law and social science to understand problems of social inequality and evaluate social policies.

Richard L. Sandor is an American businessman, economist, and entrepreneur. He is chairman and CEO of the American Financial Exchange (AFX) established in 2015, which is an electronic exchange for direct interbank/financial institution lending and borrowing.

Sander also persuaded regional authorities to develop outreach programs that sharply increased local usage of the Earned Income Tax Credit, generating tens of millions of dollars annually for LA's poorest working families.