The Politics of Rights: Lawyers, Public Policy, and Political Change
Stuart A. Scheingold's landmark work introduced a new understanding of the contribution of rights to progressive social movements, and thirty years later it still stands as a pioneering and provocative work, bridging political science and sociolegal studies. In the preface to this new edition, the author provides a cogent analysis of the burgeoning scholarship that has been built on the foundations laid in his original volume. A new foreword from Malcolm Feeley of Berkeley's Boalt Hall School...
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The classic work that revolutionized discussions of the relationship between law and social change is now available in an augmented thirtieth anniversary edition
ForewordPreface to the second editionPreface to the first edition1Legal rights and political action32Law as ideology : an introduction to the myth of rights133An ideologist's eye view of the myth of rights234The call of the law : the myth of rights as political rhetoric395The political resonance of the myth of rights626Rights as resources837Constitutional values and political goals978The implementation of public policy1179Legal rights and political mobilization13110Legal education and professional socialization : the myth of rights revisited15111The activist bar : programs and prospects17012The political relevance of legal rights203Index221
