COMM 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Reasonable Accommodation, Social Contract, Gregory House

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Commerce
• Course: COMM 315
• Professor: Vladimir Titorenko

Document Summary

White employee was denied promotion opportunity because half the positions were reserved for blacks. Supreme court ruled company could prefer blacks for jobs through quotas. Quotas can be used to correct manifest racial imbalances. Bakke was refused admission to medical school which had hard quotas for minorities. Supreme court ruled quotas based exclusively on race were illegal reverse discrimination where no history of discrimination existed. Admissions programs must be narrowly tailored to harm as few people as possible. Law school changed hard quotas to a point system for law school admission. Points for: gpa, lsat results, community involvement, minority status; 2 white female students denied admission despite stronger results in objective/academic criteria. Man is born free but is everywhere in chains (opening line); We give up some individual rights to benefit from protections of living in society. Laws should promote greater good over individual freedom;