Civil Rights
Dec. 21, 2002
Lesson in Equality
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Few issues are more controversial or divisive than affirmative action. Opponents of affirmative action view it as reverse discrimination and use noble rhetoric about the Constitution being colorblind.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
By Erwin Chemerinsky
Few issues are more controversial or divisive than affirmative action. Opponents of affirmative action view it as reverse discrimination and use noble rhetoric about ...
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