No Day in Court
Subtitle: Access to Justice and the Politics of Judicial Retrenchment
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780199399048
Subjects: Political questions and judicial power
Description: While the majority of the landmark laws and legal precedents expanding access to justice in the United States remain intact, less than 2 percent of civil cases are decided by a trial today. What explains this phenomenon, and why it is so difficult to get one's day in court? This book examines the sustained efforts of political and legal actors to scale back access to the courts in the decades since it was expanded, largely in the service of the rights revolution of the 1950s and 60s.