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legal specialisms
education law
higher education law
cases in higher education law: affirmative action and race-based admissions
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education in society and culture
multiculturalism and special populations
African American education
legal cases
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Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Definition
- Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) was a landmark case in which the U.S. Supreme Court first addressed the merits of a claim on affirmative action, also identified by critics as race-conscious admissions policies or reverse discrimination (the term used in the plaintiff's complaint), an extremely controversial topic with regard to admissions programs in higher education. At issue in Bakke was whether the separate admissions policy that officials at the medical school of the University of California at Davis used for disadvantaged minorities violated the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause and/or Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law and Higher Education; Regents of the University of California v. Bakke]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Regents_of_the_University_of_California_v._Bakke
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