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No day in court : access to justice and the politics of judicial retrenchment /
While the majority of the landmark laws and legal precedents expanding access to justice in the United States remain intact, less than 2 percent of civil cases are decided by a trial today. What explains this phenomenon, and why it is so difficult to get one's day in court? This book examines t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | While the majority of the landmark laws and legal precedents expanding access to justice in the United States remain intact, less than 2 percent of civil cases are decided by a trial today. What explains this phenomenon, and why it is so difficult to get one's day in court? This book examines the sustained efforts of political and legal actors to scale back access to the courts in the decades since it was expanded, largely in the service of the rights revolution of the 1950s and 60s. |
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| Notas: | Revision of author's dissertation (doctoral - Brandeis University, 2010), issued under title: The politics of judicial retrenchment. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 299 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199399055 0199399050 9780190221713 0190221712 |