Is Honesty the Best (Judicial) Policy in Affirmative Action Cases? Fisher v. University of Texas Gives the Court (Yet) Another Chance to Say Yes
19 Pages Posted: 23 May 2012
Date Written: April 2012
Abstract
This essay explores the likely options the Supreme Court has before it in the pending Fisher v. University of Texas affirmative action case, and locates the case in a larger framework that is rife with doctrinal and historical inconsistency, both as to substance and procedure, and that as a result opens the Court to the charge of intellectual dishonesty (or at least under-explanation).
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Amar, Vikram D., Is Honesty the Best (Judicial) Policy in Affirmative Action Cases? Fisher v. University of Texas Gives the Court (Yet) Another Chance to Say Yes (April 2012). Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc, 2012 Forthcoming, UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 298, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2064995
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