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Stealth Advocacy Can (Sometimes) Change The World, Margo Schlanger
Stealth Advocacy Can (Sometimes) Change The World, Margo Schlanger
Michigan Law Review
Scholarship and popular writing about lawsuits seeking broad social change have been nearly as contentious as the litigation itself. In a normative mode, commentators on the right have long attacked change litigation as imperialist and ill informed, besides producing bad outcomes. Attacks from the left have likewise had both prescriptive and positive strands, arguing that civil rights litigation is “subordinating, legitimating, and alienating.” As one author recently summarized in this Law Review, these observers claim “that rights litigation is a waste of time, both because it is not actually successful in achieving social change and because it detracts attention and …
De Jure Revolution?, Margaret M. Russell
De Jure Revolution?, Margaret M. Russell
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Failed Revolutions: Social Reform and the Limits of Legal Imagination by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, and Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution by Jack Greenberg.
Only Judgment: The Limits Of Litigation In Social Change, Michigan Law Review
Only Judgment: The Limits Of Litigation In Social Change, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Only Judgment: The Limits of Litigation in Social Change by Aryeh Neier