No Day in Court: Access to Justice and the Politics of Judicial Retrenchment

by Sarah Staszak

Book Overview

We are now more than half a century removed from height of the rights revolution, a time when the federal government significantly increased legal protection for disadvantaged individuals and groups, leading in the process to a dramatic expansion in access to courts and judicial authority to oversee these protections. Yet while the majority of the landmark laws and legal precedents expanding access to justice remain intact, less than two percent of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199399042
• ISBN13: 9780199399048
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"