Brazil’s laws on quotas and the road to racial equality
On 9th June, Brazil´s President signed a new bill establishing a race-based affirmative action program for federal civil servant positions countrywide. The bill reserves 20 percent of these positions for...
Schuette v BAMN: a Need to Rethink Equal Protection
Editor’s note: this post follows on from Christina Lee’s analysis of the decision in Schuette v Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action. While allowing Michigan to ban affirmative action, the Schuette...
Schuette: The Latest in the Affirmative Action Saga
On April 22, 2014, in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, the Supreme Court of the United States held that Michigan’s amendment to the State constitution, prohibiting the use...
Racial profiling: more than a numbers game
Although minority communities have long complained of racial profiling by police, their claims have generally been dismissed until proven by empirical evidence. And so it was with the New York...
Floyd v City of New York: Promise and Challenges in Reforming Stop and Frisk
The New York City Police Department (NYPD)’s controversial stop and frisk program was dealt its most significant legal blow when a federal court judge ruled the practice unconstitutional for its...
Shelby County v Holder: Disconcerting Aspects of the US Supreme Court’s Decision and its Impact on the Right to Vote
On the second day of what many consider one of the most eventful weeks in US Supreme Court history, the Court issued its decision on the Voting Rights Act (VRA)...
The Inter-American Anti-Discrimination Conventions and the Concealed Challenges Ahead
On 5 June 2013, the Organisation of American States (OAS) adopted the Inter-American Convention against Racism, Racial Discrimination and Related Forms of Intolerance (the Anti-Racism Convention) and the Inter-American Convention...
Affirmative Action in South African Universities: What Does Race Represent?
Editor’s note: Following the US Supreme Court’s decision last week in Fisher the OxHRH will be running a series of posts that offer international perspectives on affirmative action. In this...
Why Fisher v University of Texas is Irrelevant outside the US
The US Supreme Court’s decision in Fisher v University of Texas, released on Monday, has received much international attention. As Claire Overman and Reva Siegel explain in their recent posts,...
A Restriction of the Status Quo: Fisher v University of Texas
Many expected a major ruling on the constitutionality of affirmative action from the United States Supreme Court in Fisher v. University of Texas. But the Court substantially upheld prior precedent...
Fisher v University of Texas: A Glimmer of Hope for Affirmative Action in the United States?
The US Supreme Court has today handed down judgment in the eagerly anticipated case of Fisher v University of Texas. It concerns the compatibility of the university’s admissions programme with...
A prelude to Fisher v Texas from the US Court of Appeal Sixth Circuit?
In the latest contribution to our affirmative action themed series of post, Karl Laird looks at a recent decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that...
