Failed revolutions : social reform and the limits of legal imagination
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Failed revolutions : social reform and the limits of legal imagination
（New perspectives on law, culture, and society）
Westview Press, 1994
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 12 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9780813318066
Description
Efforts to implement social change - even those which are most rational and carefully constructed - are all too often forced to give way to the constraints of the legal system. Through the construction of authority, the marginalization of dissenting views, and the structure of institutions and language designed to replicate established opinion, the law and the legal profession consistently and systematically block not just the possibility of change but even our ability to imagine it. Delgado and Stefancic cast light on the many legal forces working against social change, revealing the defences, brakes and conservative impulses that work to undermine the realization of revolutionary goals.
Table of Contents
- On the Difficulties of Imagining a Better Society: Images of the Outsider in American Law and Culture - Can Free Expression Remedy Deeply Inscribed Social Ills?
- Judges' Misjudgements
- Why Do We Tell the Same Stories?
- Law, Reform, Critical Leadership and the Triple Helix Dilemma. On the Difficulty of Hearing What Our Prophets Are Saying: The Imperial Scholar - How to Marginalize Outsider Writing
- Gathering with the Like-Minded - Symposium Battles
- Pornography and Harm to Women - "No Empirical Evidence". Why We Always Embrace Moderate Solutions (Or Saviours): "Our Better Natures" - A Revisionist View of the Public Trust Doctrine in Environmental Theory
- Shadow Boxing - An Essay on Power. Supreme Court (and Other) Rhetoric - How the Way Powerful Institutions Talk Can Devalue and Marginalize Outsider Groups: Scorn and Imposition - How We Use Language, Consciously or Unconsciously, to Derail Reform.
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: pbk ISBN 9780813318073
Description
Efforts to implement social change are all too often forced to give way to the constraints of the legal system. This book casts light on the many legal forces working against social change, revealing the factors that work to undermine the realization of revolutionary goals.
Table of Contents
- On the Difficulties of Imagining a Better Society: Images of the Outsider in American Law and Culture - Can Free Expression Remedy Deeply Inscribed Social Ills?
- Judges' Misjudgements
- Why Do We Tell the Same Stories?
- Law, Reform, Critical Leadership and the Triple Helix Dilemma. On the Difficulty of Hearing What Our Prophets Are Saying: The Imperial Scholar - How to Marginalize Outsider Writing
- Gathering with the Like-Minded - Symposium Battles
- Pornography and Harm to Women - "No Empirical Evidence". Why We Always Embrace Moderate Solutions (Or Saviours): "Our Better Natures" - A Revisionist View of the Public Trust Doctrine in Environmental Theory
- Shadow Boxing - An Essay on Power. Supreme Court (and Other) Rhetoric - How the Way Powerful Institutions Talk Can Devalue and Marginalize Outsider Groups: Scorn and Imposition - How We Use Language, Consciously or Unconsciously, to Derail Reform.
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