Research Catalog

Title

Debating affirmative action : conceptual, contextual, and comparative perspectives / edited by Aileen McHarg and Donald Nicolson.

Publication

Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA, USA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.

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Additional Authors

• McHarg, Aileen.
• Nicolson, Donald

Description

198 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

Journal of law and society.

Subject

• Affirmative action programs > Law and legislation
• Affirmative action programs > Law and legislation > Great Britain
• Affirmative action programs

Note

• "First published 2006 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd as a special issue of Journal of Law and Society"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Justifying affirmative action : perception and reality / Aileen McHarg and Donald Nicolson -- Positive action for women in employment : time to align with Europe? / Noreen Burrows and Muriel Robison -- Affirmative action in women's employment : lessons from Canada / Nicole Busby -- Affirmative action : a German perspective on the promotion of women's rights with regard to employment / Anke J. Stock -- Widening participation and higher education / Lois S. Bibbings -- Preferential treatment, social justice, and the part-time law student : the case for the value-added part-time law degree / Andrew M. Francis and Iain W. McDonald -- Affirmative action in the legal profession / Donald Nicolson -- Rethinking the merit principle in judicial selection / Kate Malleson -- Quotas for women! : the sex discrimination (election candidates) act 2002 / Aileen McHarg -- Minority business enterprise programmes in the United States of America : an empirical investigation / Martin J. Sweet -- Is there a duty to legislate for linguistic minorities? / Robert Dunbar.

ISBN

• 9781405148399
• 140514839X

OCLC

65533624

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library