Bhabha

Under the new arrangement, “universities that aren’t so well funded, and can’t afford many journals, will gain,” said Aniket Sule of the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education.

Over the past two years, as Ishan Bhabha and his colleagues at the law firm Jenner & Block prepared briefs for the affirmative action case the Supreme Court ruled on last year, Mr. Bhabha had a realization: If higher education institutions like Harvard were the first target of litigation about diversity, equity and inclusion, America’s corporate boardrooms were probably next.

Mr. Bhabha began working with dozens of Fortune 500 companies to evaluate their diversity programs and ensure that they were on solid legal ground if they were sued.

Mr. Bhabha, a partner at Jenner & Block and a chairman of the firm’s D.E.I.

Nor is the show conceived as a mere retrospective, which implies, as Bhabha explained in a phone conversation, that we are looking back and assessing from a position of clarity.