Failed revolutions : social reform and the limits of legal imagination /: social reform and the limits of legal imagination. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic.
• Authors: Delgado, Richard; Stefancic, Jean
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Credits; PART ONE On the Difficulty of Imagining a Better Society; 1 Images of the Outsider in American Law and Culture: Can Free Expression Remedy Deeply Inscribed Social Ills?; Images of the Outsider; How Could They? Lessons from the History of Racial Depiction; How the System of Free Expression Sometimes Makes Matters Worse; What Should Be Done? If Not Speech, Then What?; 2 Judges' Misjudgments; Notorious Cases and Saving Narratives: What the Juxtaposition Shows Law and Literature: The Canon and the Possibility of CounternarrativesBreaking Lockstep: Two Ways to Avoid Serious Moral Error; 3 Why Do We Tell the Same Stories? Law Reform, Critical Librarianship, and the Triple Helix Dilemma; Classification Systems in Legal Scholarship; Classification Systems and the Replication of Preexisting Thought: The Triple Helix Dilemma; How to Break the Circle; PART TWO On the Difficulty of Hearing What Our Prophets Are Saying; 4 The Imperial Scholar: How to Marginalize Outsider Writing; What the Outsiders Are Saying: A Brief Analytical Summary Reception by the EldersReception by the New Generation; At the Margin"": Why We Always Fail to Recognize New Stories; 5 Gathering with the Like-Minded: Symposium Battles; The Symposium; History and Development; Competition over Meaning: Past, Present, Future; Particular Findings; The ""Sociogram, ; 6 Pornography and Harm to Women: ""No Empirical Evidence""?; A Brief Functional History of Pornography and Female Depiction; No Empirical Evidence"": Why We Fail to Find Anything Seriously Wrong with Pornography; Why Legal Reform Is So Difficult: A Few Suggestions PART THREE Why We Always Embrace Moderate Solutions (or Saviors)7 ""Our Better Natures"": A Revisionist View of the Public Trust Doctrine in Environmental Theory; Sax's Public Trust Approach to Environmental Law; Defects of the Trust System of Environmental Protection; What Sax's Theory Displaced-Three Approaches to Environmentalism That Were Not Seriously Explored; The Career of Sax's Public Trust Theory: What It Portends for Reform; 8 Shadowboxing: An Essay on Power; An Example: ""Subjective"" Versus ""Objective"" Standards; What the Subjective-Objective Debate Shows-and Conceals How Objectivity Does Its WorkWhy Not a Subjective Standard? On Being Unprincipled on Principle; A Final Example and Conclusion; PART FOUR Supreme Court (and Other) Rhetoric: How the Way Powerful Institutions Talk Can Devalue and Marginalize Outsider Groups; 9 Scorn and Imposition-How We Use Language, Consciously or Unconsciously, to Derail Reform; Scorn; Scornful Discourse; Scornful Discourse in the Supreme Court; The Judicial Function: A Theory of the Appropriate Role of Satire and Humor; Imposition; The Narrative's Efficacy and Attraction
• Publisher Details: New York, NY Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 303.48/4; Social movements -- United States; Sociological jurisprudence; Law reform -- Social aspects -- United States; Radicalism -- United States; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429720031; 0429720033
• Related ISBNs: 9780367007768
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 20, 2019).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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