Leveraging the Law: Using the Courts to Achieve Social Change

by David A. Schultz

Leveraging the Law is an important and timely collection of essays by noted political scientists and legal scholars who critically explore the relationship between the courts, political mobilization, and social change. Employing a wide variety of methodological perspectives and drawing upon numerous case studies, the authors demonstrate how and under what conditions the courts can be an important force for political change and social reform...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820434922
• ISBN13: 9780820434926
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 354 Pages