How Actions Affirm: Reflections on the Question of Affirmative Action

Doron Menashe

How Actions Affirm: Reflections on the Question of Affirmative Action

Doron Menashe

Faculty of Law

University of Haifa

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Abstract

The article discusses issues on the policy of affirmative action in the U.S., particularly their justifications in relation to individual rights. Also cited are the instances or situations wherein affirmative action's application is morally justified, the affirmative action's aim to protect the individual rights of minority group members from oppression and discrimination, and communal rights as individual rights.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	523-545
Number of pages	23
Journal	Touro Law Review
Volume	36
Issue number	2
State	Published - 2020

Keywords

AFFIRMATIVE action programs
CIVIL rights
DISCRIMINATION prevention
GROUP rights
MINORITIES
SOCIAL integration programs
UNITED States

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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How Actions Affirm: Reflections on the Question of Affirmative Action

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Keywords

UN SDGs

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