Affirmative Action and Justice: A Philosophical and Constitutional Inquiry

by Michel Rosenfeld

Book Overview

Affirmative action has been one of the most hotly debated issues in America. In the wake of numerous Supreme Court decisions on the subject, the ethical and constitutional controversy over affirmative action has recently intensified. The Court has neither clearly delineated the nature and scope of constitutionally permissible affirmative action plans nor articulated a coherent judicial philosophy to justify its seemingly incoherent decisions. Although...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300055080
• ISBN13: 9780300055085
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 381 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Indispensable for research

This book gives you the four most important points of view about affirmative action: libertarian, contractarian, utilitarian and egalitarian. It has various approaches and I found it extremely usefull in my researches about this controversial topic.