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WEBER AND THE LIMITS OF JUDICIAL POLICY‐MAKING
Author(s) -
ROSSUM RALPH A.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
law and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.534
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-9930
pISSN - 0265-8240
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9930.1982.tb00267.x
Subject(s) - supreme court , preference , political science , law , law and economics , sociology , economics , microeconomics
In United Steelworkers of America v. Weber (1979), the U. S. Supreme Court engaged in one of the most blatant examples of judicial policymaking to date. This paper explores Weber (and, to a lesser degree, the other major cases that have addressed the question of ameliorative racial preference), and argues that the very attributes of the adjudicative process that make the courts so well‐suited for the resolution of particular controversies and grievances also render them most ill‐suited for general policy‐making.