Research Catalog

Title

The Bakke case : race, education, and affirmative action / Howard Ball.

Author

Ball, Howard, 1937-

Publication

Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2000.

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Description

xv, 231 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Examines the law and politics surrounding the Bakee case; a case claiming reverse discrimnation, considered by many as the most important civil rights decision since the end of segregation.

Series Statement

Landmark law cases & American society

Uniform Title

Landmark law cases & American society

Subject

• Bakke, Allan Paul > Trials, litigation, etc
• University of California (System). Regents > Trials, litigation, etc
• Discrimination in medical education > Law and legislation > United States
• Affirmative action programs > Law and legislation > United States
• Medical colleges > California > Admission
• Affirmative action programs in education > Law and legislation > United States

Genre/Form

• Trial and arbitral proceedings
• Comptes rendus de procès et d'arbitrage.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-218) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Affirmative action in higher education -- Marco DeFunis seeks admission to the University of Washington School of Law, 1971-1974 -- "Let me in!" : Allan Bakke's plea to the University of California, Davis, Medical School -- Asking the U. S. Supreme Court to review Bakke -- "Mr. Chief Justice and may it please the Court" : the oral arguments in Bakke, 1977 -- Bakke and the dynamics of Supreme Court decision making -- Affirmative action public policy in the politically turbulent 1990s -- The Bakke legacy : hanging by a thread?

ISBN

• 0700610456 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0700610464 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00041163^

OCLC

44089412

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library