Journal Title
Laws
Volume
13
Issue
1
First Page
3
Document Type
Article
Publication Information
2024
Abstract
Renewed attention to equity in higher education is welcome because true equity helps us to reason together well. When administered correctly, the jurisprudence of equity models civil discourse and, therefore, can teach us how to carry out civic engagement reasonably. Equitable interpretation of the law teaches us how to understand each other charitably. And equity’s deference to law teaches us how to reason well together about our practical problems. Law is the practical reasoning that we do together. Equity serves the ends of justice by serving law, rather than undermining it. These functions of equity in adjudication point toward a model of equity in practical reasoning and civic discourse more broadly.
Recommended Citation
Adam J. MacLeod, Why Equity Follows the Law, 13 Laws 3 (https://doi.org/10.3390/laws13010003), 2024.