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The rights revolution : lawyers, activists, and supreme courts in comparative perspective / Charles R. Epp.
LIBRA K3240.4 .E65 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Epp, Charles R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil rights--History.
- Civil rights.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- List of Tables and FiguresAcknowledgments1: Introduction 2: The Conditions for the Rights Revolution: Theory 3: The United States: Standard Explanations for the Rights Revolution 4: The Support Structure and the U.S. Rights Revolution 5: India: An Ideal Environment for a Rights Revolution? 6: India's Weak Rights Revolution and Its Handicap 7: Britain: An Inhospitable Environment for a Rights Revolution? 8: Britain's Modest Rights Revolution and Its Sources 9: Canada: A Great Experiment in Constitutional Engineering 10: Canada's Dramatic Rights Revolution and Its Sources 11: Conclusion: Constitutionalism, Judicial Power, and Rights App: Selected Constitutional or Quasi-Constitutional Rights Provisions for the United States, India, Britain, and Canada Notes Bibliography Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-305) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226211614
- 0226211622
- OCLC:
- 38550095
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