Rights and Retrenchment - The Counterrevolution Against Federal Litigation

Informationen zum Autor Stephen B. Burbank is David Berger Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the author of numerous articles drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives and served as Chair of the Board of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Burbank was a member of the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal and a principal author of its report. Sean Farhang is Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Litigation State: Public Regulation and Private Lawsuits in the US (2010), which received the Gladys M. Kammerer Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book in the field of US national policy, as well as the C. Herman Pritchett award from the American Political Science Association for the best book on law and courts. Klappentext This book shows how an increasingly conservative Supreme Court has undermined the enforcement of rights through strategies rejected by Congress. Zusammenfassung In Rights and Retrenchment! the authors show that an increasingly conservative! unelected Supreme Court has undermined the enforcement of federal rights with little public notice. This book will be of interest to students! scholars! and citizens concerned about rights and their enforcement. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Retrenching rights in institutional context: constraints and opportunities; 2. The legislative counterrevolution: emergence, growth, and disappointment; 3. The rulemaking counterrevolution: birth, reaction, and struggle; 4. The counterrevolution in the Supreme Court: succeeding; 5. The subterranean counterrevolution: the Supreme Court, the media, and public opinion; 6. Rights, retrenchment, and democratic governance.

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• Authors: Stephen B. Burbank, Stephen B. (University of Pennsylvania) Burbank, Stephen B. (University of Pennsylvania) F Burbank, Burbank Stephen B., Sean Farhang, Sean (University of California Farhang, Farhang Sean
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781316502044
• ISBN: 978-1-316-50204-4
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / Courts, LAW / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, LAW / Trial Practice, United States of America, USA, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Central / national / federal government, Central government, Courts & procedure, Legal systems: courts and procedures