The program will inquire whether antidiscrimination law and doctrine has added a new antidiscrimination principle that some scholars have termed antibalkanization. Among the issues that the panel will explore include: (a) whether the concept of antibalkanization is descriptively accurate; (b) whether it is normatively defensible; (c) whether this new principle applies symmetrically to state action that disadvantages citizens of color as well as state action that disadvantages white citizens; and (d) whether this principle applies to other areas of constitutional law.