There is presently a great deal of scholarly debate concerning affirmative action within the legal academy. It is with some trepidation that I attempt to make a contribution to this debate. This is due to an awareness of my own uncertainty regarding the subject. Although I am firmly convinced that affirmative action should be legally permitted, I have no such strong conviction with regard to its moral features. At present, I find myself genuinely puzzled as to whether affirmative action is, in principle, morally obligatory, merely morally permissible, or morally forbidden. I have, however, long harbored a suspicion that there is something wrong with affirmative action as it is currently practiced in the hiring of law faculty. This suspicion has recently crystallized into a more definite form’ which accounts for my willingness to enter the lists on this subject.
Affirmative Action and the New Discrimination: A Reply to Duncan Kennedy
Affirmative Action and the New Discrimination: A Reply to Duncan Kennedy
Recent Publications
- “Equal Opportunity, Not Reparations” in the Handbook of Equality of Opportunity (2024)
- “A Bayesian Solution to Hallsson’s Puzzle”
- Markets without Limits: Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests, 2nd Edition
- “Optimizing political influence: a jury theorem with dynamic competence and dependence”
- Why not anarchism?
Recent News
- Advocacy group concerned pay-for-plasma clinics expanding to Ontario will hurt voluntary donations
- Jason Brennan and Hélène Landemore, Debating Democracy (University of Zurich’s UBS Center, 2024)
- Jason Brennan “Everything Wrong with Democracy” on the Alex O’Connor Podcast (January 28, 2024)
- On the affirmative action ruling, the Supreme Court got it half right
- Is the effective altruism movement in trouble?