Rights Revolution Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective

Name: Rights Revolution Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective
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ISBN: 9780226211626

ISBN-10: 0226211622

ISBN-13: 9780226211626

Edition: 1998

Authors: Charles R. Epp

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It is well known that the scope of individual rights has expanded dramatically in the United States over the last half-century. Less well known is that other countries have experienced "rights revolutions" as well. Charles R. Epp argues that, far from being the fruit of an activist judiciary, the ascendancy of civil rights and liberties has rested on the democratization of access to the courts—the influence of advocacy groups, the establishment of governmental enforcement agencies, the growth of financial and legal resources for ordinary citizens, and the strategic planning of grass roots organizations. In other words, the shift in the rights of individuals is best understood as a "bottom…

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List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 342
Size: 7.32" wide x 8.98" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Charles R. Epp is professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration at the University of Kansas. He is the author of several books.



List of Tables and Figures


Acknowledgments



Introduction



The Conditions for the Rights Revolution: Theory



The United States: Standard Explanations for the Rights Revolution



The Support Structure and the U.S. Rights Revolution



India: An Ideal Environment for a Rights Revolution?



India's Weak Rights Revolution and Its Handicap



Britain: An Inhospitable Environment for a Rights Revolution?



Britain's Modest Rights Revolution and Its Sources



Canada: A Great Experiment in Constitutional Engineering



Canada's Dramatic Rights Revolution and Its Sources



Conclusion: Constitutionalism, Judicial Power, and Rights


App: Selected Constitutional or Quasi-Constitutional Rights Provisions for the United States, India, Britain, and Canada


Notes


Bibliography


Index