The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring about Social Change? Rosenberg Gerald N.
Presents a powerful argument for the limitations of judicial action to support significant social reform--now updated with new data and analysis.Since its first publication in 1991, The Hollow Hope…
Specifikacia The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring about Social Change? Rosenberg Gerald N.
Presents a powerful argument for the limitations of judicial action to support significant social reform--now updated with new data and analysis.Since its first publication in 1991, The Hollow Hope has spurred debate and challenged assumptions on both the left and the right about the ability of courts to bring about durable political and social change. What Gerald N. Rosenberg argued then, and what he confirms today through new evidence in this edition, is that it is nearly impossible to generate significant reforms through litigation: American courts are ineffective and relatively weak, far from the uniquely powerful sources for change they are often portrayed to be.This third edition includes new data and a substantially updated analysis of civil rights, abortion rights and access, women's rights, and marriage equality. Addressing changes in the political and