No day in court : access to justice and the politics of judicial retrenchment /
Staszak, Sarah L.,
No day in court : access to justice and the politics of judicial retrenchment / Sarah Staszak. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780190221713 (ebook) : No price
Political questions and judicial power--United States.
KF8748 / .S825 2014
347.73052
No day in court : access to justice and the politics of judicial retrenchment / Sarah Staszak. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780190221713 (ebook) : No price
Political questions and judicial power--United States.
KF8748 / .S825 2014
347.73052