Failed Revolutions: Social Reform And The Limits Of Legal Imagination (New Perspectives on Law, Culture, and Society)

Forty years after school integration became the law of the land, African-American poverty, isolation, and despair are as deep as ever. Thirty years after the environmental revolution of the 1960s, our environment continues to deteriorate. Why have these and so many other hopeful revolutions failed? Focusing on the crucial discipline of the law, Focusing On The Crucial Discipline Of The Law, Failed Revolutions Casts Light On The Many Forces Working Against Meaningful Social Change. Through The Construction Of Authority, The Marginalization Of Dissenting Views, And Institutions Designed To Replicate Established Opinion, The Legal Profession Systematically Blocks Not Just The Possibility Of Change But Even Our Ability To Imagine It.--book Jacket. Failed Revolutions Will Be Of Particular Interest For Lawyers And Legal Scholars, But Its Wide Implications Make It Valuable Reading For Any Citizen Concerned With The Possibility Of Social Reform.--book Jacket. Richard Delgado And Jean Stefancic. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 147-193) And Index. Efforts to implement social change are all too often forced to give way to the constraints of the legal system. This book casts light on the many legal forces working against social change, revealing the factors that work to undermine the realization of revolutionary goals.