A Conflict of Principles: The Battle Over Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan

by Carl Cohen

Book Overview

"No state . . . shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." So says the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, a document held dear by Carl Cohen, a professor of philosophy and longtime champion of civil liberties who has devoted most of his adult life to the University of Michigan. So when Cohen discovered, after encountering some resistance, how his school, in its admirable wish to increase minority...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700619968
• ISBN13: 9780700619962
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"