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Civil Rights and Discrimination

University of Michigan Law School

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Racism

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Racial Preferences In Higher Education: Political Responsibility And The Judicial Role, Terrance Sandalow Jan 1977

Racial Preferences In Higher Education: Political Responsibility And The Judicial Role, Terrance Sandalow

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... Professors John Hart Ely and Richard Posner have established diametrically opposed positions in the debate. Their contributions are of special interest because each undertakes to answer the question within the framework of a theory concerning the proper distribution of authority between the judiciary and the other institutions of government

...Professor Ely [see pp. 208-216, herein] defends the constitutionality of racial preferences, essentially on the ground that the equal-protection clause should not be read to prevent a majority from discriminating between itself and a minority only to its own disadvantage. The predicate for an active judicial role is lacking, ... …


The School Desegregation Cases In Retrospect—Some Reflections On Causes And Effects, Yale Kamisar Jan 1969

The School Desegregation Cases In Retrospect—Some Reflections On Causes And Effects, Yale Kamisar

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Recently, when asked to give a lecture on appellate advocacy, Justice Thurgood Marshall reminded his audience what Judge Benjamin Cardozo had once said: "The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass judges by." An outstanding example, he might have added, is Brown v. Board of Education.

In a sense, the significant changes which have occurred in the Black man's status in the last two decades had their beginnings in the rise of numerically, and hence politically, important Black communities in the North. For the importance of civil rights …