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Expiration Of The Sunset Clause: Is The Clock Ticking For The Grutter Standard And Affirmative Action In Higher Education?, Simona Stodulkova

GGU Law Review Blog

Affirmative action, an active effort to provide access to educational and employment opportunities to historically underrepresented groups, is now in danger of being eradicated by the Supreme Court. While the Court upheld affirmative action in Grutter v. Bollinger in 2003, it suggested in its “sunset clause” of the opinion that the issue should be revisited in twenty-five years. Two cases concerning affirmative action in higher education are now before the current conservative-led Court, which has already indicated that it is prepared to overrule its precedent.

Affirmative action in higher education has been advanced as a solution to past discriminatory …

Radical Reconstruction: (Re) Embracing Affirmative Action In Private Employment, Hina B. Shah

Publications

The history of employment in this country is the history of racism. Using public and private mechanisms as well as violence to devise and enforce segregation and preferential treatment, the white male institutionalized an unprecedented advantage in the labor market. Yet this is rarely acknowledged as a factor in the current widening economic disparity between whites and blacks. Today, many white Americans, cloaked in the myth of colorblindness and meritocracy, refuse to see the persistence of racial prejudice, disadvantage and discrimination in the labor market.

This article is a call for a radical reconstruction of the private labor market through …

Lawyer/Authors To Debate Proposition 209 - The California Civil Rights Initiative

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Through The Looking Glass: Recent Developments In Affirmative Action, Kathleen Morris

Publications

The year 1995 saw three major developments that threaten the future of voluntary affirmative action programs in California and nationwide. On June 12, the U.S. Supreme Court in Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena, held that voluntary federal affirmative action programs should be subject to the same "strict scrutiny" reserved for all other racial classifications. The following month, the Regents of the University of California voted to abolish the use of race and gender as factors in admissions and hiring in the University of California system. Finally, last year the so-called "California Civil Rights Initiative" ("CCRI") was presented to the …

Equal Opportunity In Economic Downturn - Are Women And Minorities Sacrificing More Than Their Fair Share? Prepared Statements And Correspondence, Assembly Select Committee On Equal Opportunity

California Assembly

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Equal Opportunity In Economic Downturn - Are Women And Minorities Sacrificing More Than Their Fair Share? Hearing, Assembly Select Committee On Equal Opportunity

California Assembly

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Legal Issues In Afformative Action - The University Of California, California State University And Colleges, And Community College Systems - Part 2, Assembly Committee On Fair Employment Practices, Assembly Committee On Judiciary

California Assembly

This complete document totals 1264 pages. The document has been divided into three parts for easier download.

Part 1 - pp. Title-416
Part 2 - pp. 417-853
Part 3 - pp.854-1258

Legal Issues In Afformative Action - The University Of California, California State University And Colleges, And Community College Systems - Part 3, Assembly Committee On Fair Employment Practices, Assembly Committee On Judiciary

California Assembly

This complete document totals 1264 pages. The document has been divided into three parts for easier download.

Part 1 - pp. Title-416
Part 2 - pp. 417-853
Part 3 - pp.854-1258

Legal Issues In Afformative Action - The University Of California, California State University And Colleges, And Community College Systems - Part I, Assembly Committee On Fair Employment Practices, Assembly Committee On Judiciary

California Assembly

This complete document totals 1264 pages. The document has been divided into three parts for easier download.

Part 1 - pp. Title-416
Part 2 - pp. 417-853
Part 3 - pp.854-1258

Legal Issues In Affirmative Action - Problems Affecting Women, Assembly Select Committee On Fair Employment Practices, Assembly Committee On Judiciary

California Assembly

Today, the Assembly Select Committee on Fair Employment Practices, and the Assembly Judiciary Committee are holding a joint interim hearing on legal issues on affirmative action problems affecting women. Our purpose today, is to examine some of the problems confronted by women in employment. We will examine the areas of recruitment, hiring, mobility, the grievance procedures, and the emerging issue of collective bargaining. The committees are also very interested in examining the issue of ethnic women, and the progress they have made in equalizing their representation in the labor force.

Transcript Of Hearing On Effectiveness Of Affirmative Action In The Public Sector, Assembly Select Committee On Fair Employment Practices

California Assembly

The subject of today's interim hearing is one of the most sensitive of public policy issues: affirmative action in public employment. This Committee will be examining the state of affairs of the state and local governments efforts relative to affirmative action and equal employment both in the areas of "hiring" and upward mobility. Additionally, the Committee will develop proposals to encourage and stimulate more effective affirmative action progr~s in the private and public sectors.