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Failed Revolutions

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Failed Revolutions

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Failed Revolutions book

Social Reform and the Limits of Legal Imagination

Failed Revolutions

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Failed Revolutions book

Social Reform and the Limits of Legal Imagination
ByRichard Delgado, Jean Stefancic
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1994
eBook Published 17 June 2019
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429037627
Pages 228
eBook ISBN 9780429037627
Subjects Social Sciences
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Delgado, R., & Stefancic, J. (1994). Failed Revolutions: Social Reform and the Limits of Legal Imagination (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429037627

ABSTRACT

Forty years after school integration became the law of the land, African-American poverty, isolation, and despair are as deep as ever. Thirty years after the environmental revolution of the 1960s, our environment continues to deteriorate. Why have these and so many other hopeful revolutions failed? Focusing on the crucial discipline of the law,

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part Part One|49 pages

On the Difficulty of Imagining a Better Society

chapter 1|19 pages

Images of the Outsider in American Law and Culture: Can Free Expression Remedy Deeply Inscribed Social Ills?

chapter 2|18 pages

Judges' Misjudgments

chapter 3|9 pages

Why Do We Tell the Same Stories? Law Reform, Critical Librarianship, and the Triple Helix Dilemma

part Part Two|41 pages

On the Difficulty of Hearing What Our Prophets Are Saying

chapter 4|13 pages

The Imperial Scholar: How to Marginalize Outsider Writing

chapter 5|14 pages

Gathering with the Like-Minded: Symposium Battles

chapter 6|11 pages

Pornography and Harm to Women: "No Empirical Evidence"?

part Part Three|19 pages

Why We Always Embrace Moderate Solutions (or Saviors)

chapter 7|9 pages

“Our Better Natures”: A Revisionist View of the Public Trust Doctrine in Environmental Theory

chapter 8|7 pages

Shadowboxing: An Essay on Power

part Part Four|34 pages

Supreme Court (and Other) Rhetoric: How the Way Powerful Institutions Talk Can Devalue and Marginalize Outsider Groups

chapter 9|27 pages

Scorn and Imposition—How We Use Language, Consciously or Unconsciously, to Derail Reform

chapter |2 pages

Conclusion

chapter |2 pages

Epilogue

On the Relation Between Hope and Struggle: A Concluding Message for the Young Lawyer
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