Law and Social Movements
By: edited by Michael McCann.
Contributors: McCann, Michael W., 1952-
Series: The International Library of Essays in Law and Society
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Burlington, VT, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 636
ISBN-13: 9780754624974
Subjects: Sociological jurisprudence.; Social movements.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Legal Mobilization and Social Reform Movements: Notes on Theory and Its Application, by Michael McCann; title: Positivism, Interpretivism, and the Study of Law, by Gerald N. Rosenberg; title: Causal Versus Constitutive Explanations (Or, On the Difficulty of Being So Positive ...), by Michael McCann; title: Right, Rage, and Remedy Forms of Law in Political Discourse, by John Brigham; title: The Structural Context of Novel Rights Claims: Southern Civil Rights Organizing, 1961-1966, by Francesca Polletta; title: Human Rights in Israel / Palestine: The History and Politics of a Movement, by Lisa Hajjar; title: So Help Me God: A Comparative Study of Religious Interest Group Litigation, by Jayanth K. Krishnan and Kevin R. den Dulk; title: The ADA on the Road: Disability Rights in Germany, by Katharina C. Heyer; title: Rights as Excess: Understanding the Politics of Special Rights, by Jonathan Golberg-Hiller and Neal Milner; title: Law as a Weapon in Social Conflict, by Austin T. Turk; title: Legal Mobilization as a Social Movement Tactic: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity, by Paul Burstein; title: Comparing Women's Rights Litigation in the Netherlands and the United States, by Susan M. Olson; title: Long-Term Strategies in Japanese Environmental Litigation, by Robert L. Kidder and Setsuo Miyazawa; title: Fufubessei Movement in Japan: Thinking about Women's Resistance and Subjectivity, by Ki-Young Shin; title: Law and the Protection of Cultural Communities: The Case of Native American Fishing Rights, by Michael R. Anderson; title: Legal Control of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, by Steven E. Barkan; title: Social Movements, Law, and Society: The Institutionalization of the Environmental Movement, by Cary Coglianese; title: Rights and Social Movements: Counter-Hegemonicstrategies, by Alan Hunt; title: Race, Reform, and Retrenchment: Transformationand Legitimation in Antidiscrimination Law, by Kimberle Williams Crenshaw; title: Family, Law and Sexuality: Feminist Engagements, by Susan B. Boyd; title: Postmodernism, Protest, and the New Social Movements, by Joel F. Handler; title: International Law and Social Movements: Challenges of Theorizing Resistance, by Balakrishnan Rajagopal