hollow hope
Subtitle: can courts bring about social change?
By: Gerald N. Rosenberg.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226726700; 9780226726717
Subjects: Courts -- United States; Political questions and judicial power -- United States; Sociological jurisprudence; Civil rights -- United States; Women's rights -- United States; Social change
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The dynamic and the constrained court; title: Bound for glory: Brown and the civil rights revolution; title: Constraints, conditions, and the courts; title: Planting the seeds of progress; title: The current of history; title: Transforming women's lives: the courts and abortion; title: Liberating women: the courts and women's rights; title: The court as catalyst; title: The tide of history; title: Cleaning house: the courts, the environment, and reapportionment; title: Judicial revolution: litigation to reform the criminal law; title: You've got that loving feeling: the litigation campaign for same-sex marriage; title: Confusing rights with reality: litigation for same-sex marriage and the counter-mobilization of law; title: Conclusion: the fly-paper court.