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| Admission Criteria | 2 |
| Competitive Selection | 2 |
| Higher Education | 2 |
| Justice | 2 |
| Philosophy | 2 |
| Racial Discrimination | 2 |
| Constitutional Law | 1 |
| Ethnic Groups | 1 |
| Law Schools | 1 |
| Moral Values | 1 |
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| Columbia Law Review | 2 |
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| Greenawalt, Kent | 1 |
| Nickel, James W. | 1 |
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| Defunis v Odegaard | 2 |
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Peer reviewedNickel, James W. – Columbia Law Review, 1975
In presenting a framework for analyzing preferential policies that use racial, ethnic, or sexual classifications (modifying the correlation between classifications and relevant characteristic), the author, a defender of preferential policies, discusses objections to those policies that do and do not use racial or ethnic classifications to define…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Competitive Selection, Ethnic Groups, Higher Education
Peer reviewedGreenawalt, Kent – Columbia Law Review, 1975
A consideration of the issues in the DeFunis v. Odegaard case focusing on the extent to which the principles of "moral philosophy" are contingent with the requirement of equal protection. Discusses levels of review under the equal protection clause and "benign" racial classifications, and constitutional evaluation of…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Competitive Selection, Constitutional Law, Higher Education
