The Cost of Good Intentions: Why the Supreme Court's Decision Upholding Affirmative Action Admission Programs is Detrimental to the Cause

Authors

Leslie Yalof Garfield, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

This article provides an overview of the Federal Courts’ interpretation of equal protection challenges to affirmative action admission policies beginning with University of California v. Bakke through the recent Supreme Court decisions of Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger. The article then identifies and outlines the appropriate elements of a constitutionally sound affirmative action admission policy. Finally, the article concludes that the permissible policy is almost unattainable for schools other than small institutions.

Recommended Citation

Leslie Yalof Garfield, The Cost of Good Intentions: Why the Supreme Court's Decision Upholding Affirmative Action Admission Programs Is Detrimental to the Cause, 27 Pace L. Rev. 15 (2006), http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/lawfaculty/38/.