Hollow Hope Can Courts Bring about Social Change? Second Edition

Name: Hollow Hope Can Courts Bring about Social Change? Second Edition
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ISBN: 9780226726717

ISBN-10: 0226726711

ISBN-13: 9780226726717

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Gerald N. Rosenberg

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In follow-up studies, dozens of reviews, and even a book of essays evaluating his conclusions, Gerald Rosenberg7;s critics-not to mention his supporters-have spent nearly two decades debating the arguments he first put forward inThe Hollow Hope. With this substantially expanded second edition of his landmark work, Rosenberg himself steps back into the fray, responding to criticism and adding chapters on the same-sex marriage battle that ask anew whether courts can spur political and social reform. Finding that the answer is still a resounding no, Rosenberg reaffirms his powerful contention that it7;s nearly impossible to generate significant reforms through litigation. The reason? American…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 534
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English



List of Tables and Figures


Preface to the Second Edition


Preface to the First Edition


Introduction



The Dynamic and the Constrained Court



Civil Rights


Introduction



Bound for Glory? Brown and the Civil Rights Revolution



Constraints, Conditions, and the Courts



Planting the Seeds of Progress?



The Current of History



Abortion and Women's Rights


Introduction



Transforming Women's Lives? The Courts and Abortion



Liberating Women? The Courts and Women's Rights



The Court as Catalyst?



The Tide of History



The Environment, Reapportionment, and Criminal Law


Introduction



Cleaning House? The Courts, the Environment, and Reapportionment



Judicial Revolution? Litigation to Reform the Criminal Law



Same-Sex Marriage


Introduction



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


Epilogue


Appendices



Black Children in Elementary and Secondary School with Whites: 1954-72



Blacks at Predominantly White Public Colleges and Universities



Black Voter Registration in the Southern States: Pre- and Post-Voting Rights Act



Laws and Actions Designed to Preserve Segregation



Method for Obtaining Information for Table 4.1 and Figure 4.1



Illegal Abortions



Method for Obtaining Information for Tables 8.1A, 8.1B, 8.2A, and 8.2B, and for Figures 8.1 and 8.2



Coding Rules and Methods for Obtaining Information for Tables 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6, and 13.7


Case References


References


Index