Volume 25, Number 13 · August 17, 1978

The Bakke Decision: Did It Decide Anything?

By Ronald Dworkin

The decision of the Supreme Court in Bakke was received by the press and much of the public with great relief, as an act of judicial statesmanship that gave to each party in the national debate what it seemed to want most. Such a sense of relief, however, hardly seems warranted, and it is important to explain why it does not.



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