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The hollow hope : can courts bring about social change?
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- Creator
- Gerald N. Rosenberg
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Second edition
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 525 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0226726711, 9780226726717, 0226726703, 9780226726700
- OCLC
- ocn173218839
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-512) and index.
- The dynamic and the constrained court -- Bound for glory: Brown and the civil rights revolution -- Constraints, conditions, and the courts -- Planting the seeds of progress -- The current of history -- Transforming women's lives: the courts and abortion -- Liberating women: the courts and women's rights -- The court as catalyst -- The tide of history -- Cleaning house: the courts, the environment, and reapportionment -- Judicial revolution: litigation to reform the criminal law -- You've got that loving feeling: the litigation campaign for same-sex marriage -- Confusing rights with reality: litigation for same-sex marriage and the counter-mobilization of law -- Conclusion: the fly-paper court