Realizing Bakke’s Legacy: Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity,
and Access to Higher Education Editors Patricia Marin and
Catherine L. Horn provide a comprehensive overview of the
lingering impact the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1978 landmark decision
in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke has had on
race-conscious policies—broadly termed affirmative action—in
education. The publication of their new book is timed to
coincide with the decision’s thirtieth anniversary, and its nine
articles contribute new research and legal analysis that will
benefit administrators and policymakers in their ongoing efforts
toward improving educational equity. Marin and Horn divide the
book into three parts, beginning with a legal and philosophical
introduction to the case, and concluding with implications for
future policy and practice. In part one, Angelo Ancheta, a legal
scholar, presents a thorough yet accessible overview of
affirmative action jurisprudence during the last three decades.
Distilling the competing ideol