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Racial Indirection, Yuvraj Joshi Apr 2019

Racial Indirection, Yuvraj Joshi

Yuvraj Joshi

Racial indirection describes practices that produce racially disproportionate results without the overt use of race. This Article demonstrates how racial indirection has allowed — and may continue to allow — efforts to desegregate America’s universities. By analyzing the Supreme Court’s affirmative action cases, the Article shows how specific features of affirmative action doctrine have required and incentivized racial indirection, and how these same features have helped sustain the constitutionality of affirmative action to this point. There is a basic constitutional principle that emerges from these cases: so long as the end is constitutionally permissible, the less direct the reliance on …

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Vioces Of Women, Professor Vibhuti Patel Mar 2015

Vioces Of Women, Professor Vibhuti Patel

Professor Vibhuti Patel

Journey towards Gender Equality by Vibhuti Patel Professor and Head, Departmentof Economics, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai We can observe a phenomenal growth in the number of groups and individuals working towards gender equality during the last three decades. In this current phase of the movement, thousands of grassroots women have taken leadership of the movement in their areas for gender equality. Many of the issues faced by women today have their traces in the past. The rich history of women’s movement can provide an insight into many of the contemporary problems. The successful strategies for the future cannot be built …

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From Libertarianism To Egalitarianism, Justin Schwartz Jan 1992

From Libertarianism To Egalitarianism, Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

A standard natural rights argument for libertarianism is based on the labor theory of property: the idea that I own my self and my labor, and so if I "mix" my own labor with something previously unowned or to which I have a have a right, I come to own the thing with which I have mixed by labor. This initially intuitively attractive idea is at the basis of the theories of property and the role of government of John Locke and Robert Nozick. Locke saw and Nozick agreed that fairness to others requires a proviso: that I leave "enough …

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