GOING GLOBAL WITH AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Thursday, June 26, 2003
- Organization: Jurist
- Link: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu
The Supreme Court's rulings in the Michigan affirmative action cases have been called the most significant civil rights decisions in the past twenty-five years. One noteworthy aspect of the cases is the heightened level of respect the Court apparently accords to international law. In their important concurrence in the Law School decision, Justices Ginsburg and Breyer implied that U.S. laws that agree with their international equivalents are more likely to be upheld by the Court than those that disagree.
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