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Three Models Of Affirmative Action Beneficiaries, Thomas W. Merrill
Three Models Of Affirmative Action Beneficiaries, Thomas W. Merrill
Faculty Scholarship
What has caused the affirmative action debate to become so acrimonious? Perhaps some insight may be gained By considering three competing models of affirmative action beneficiaries that underlie this debate: (1) the outsider group model; (2) the interest group model; and (3) what I will call the adversity group model.
Ballot Propositions And Campaign Finance Reform, Richard Briffault
Ballot Propositions And Campaign Finance Reform, Richard Briffault
Faculty Scholarship
For more than two decades, law and policy in the area of campaign finance reform have been framed by the conflict between the norms of promoting political equality and protecting political participation. Viewing campaign finance as a basic component of political activity, the Supreme Court has generally given political participation priority over equality and has invalidated reforms that would limit spending in order to promote equality. The Court, however, has sustained some restrictions on campaign finance activities of candidates, political parties, and individuals and groups who work with these political professionals. In effect, concern about the capacity of private donations …
The Future Of Affirmative Action: Reclaiming The Innovative Deal, Susan Sturm, Lani Guinier
The Future Of Affirmative Action: Reclaiming The Innovative Deal, Susan Sturm, Lani Guinier
Faculty Scholarship
We are witnessing a broad-based assault on affirmative action – in the courts, the legislatures, and the media. Opponents have defined affirmative action as a program of racial preferences that threatens fundamental American values of fairness, equality, and democratic opportunity. Opponents successfully depict racial preferences as extraordinary, special, and deviant – a departure from prevailing modes of selection. They also proceed on the assumption that, except for racial or gender preferences, the process of selection for employment or educational opportunity is fair, meritocratic, and functional. Thus, they have positioned affirmative action as unnecessary, unfair, and even un- American.
Those of …