Richard Delgado

Failed Revolutions

Social Reform And The Limits Of Legal Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the crucial discipline of the law, Failed Revolutions casts light on the many forces working against meaningful social change. It is a valuable reading for any citizen concerned with the possibility of social reform.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 337g
• ISBN-13: 9780367157630
• ISBN-10: 0367157632
• Artikelnr.: 60595528

Autorenporträt

Richard Delgado

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: On the Difficulty of Imagining a Better Society 1. Images of the
Outsider in American Law and Culture: Can Free Expression Remedy Deeply
Inscribed Social Ills? 2. Judges' Misjudgments 3. Why Do We Tell the Same
Stories? Law Reform, Critical Librarianship, and the Triple Helix Dilemma
Part Two: On the Difficulty of Hearing What Our Prophets Are Saying 4. The
Imperial Scholar: How to Marginalize Outsider Writing 5. Gathering with the
Like-Minded: Symposium Battles 6. Pornography and Harm to Women: "No
Empirical Evidence"? Part Three: Why We Always Embrace Moderate Solutions
(or Saviors) 7. "Our Better Natures": A Revisionist View of the Public
Trust Doctrine in Environmental Theory 8. Shadowboxing: An Essay on Power
Part Four: Supreme Court (and Other) Rhetoric: How the Way Powerful
Institutions Talk Can Devalue and Marginalize Outsider Groups 9. Scorn and
Imposition-How We Use Language, Consciously or Unconsciously, to Derail
Reform 10. Conclusion 11. Epilogue