This review examines the complex interplay among social movements, organizations, and
law. Although the sociological literature has recently been attentive to each pair of two of …

This review examines recent scholarship on the rise of international human rights law and
proposes that social movements have played critical roles both in elevating the standards of …

The limits of the law as a means of effecting social change have been a key focus of legal
thinkers over the past several decades. The aggregate impact of emerging schools of …

The rise of social movements in US legal scholarship is a current response to an age-old
problem in progressive legal thought: harnessing law for social change while maintaining a …

" Lord, we ain't what we want to be; we ain't what we ought to be; we ain't what we gonna be,
but, thank God, we ain't what we was." I The contemporary public interest legal movement is …

Conventional understanding holds that winning is the name of the game in litigation. Many
fundamental social rights and liberties were established in historic court victories and …

Social movement actors increasingly turn to the law and pursue litigation in their efforts to
bring about social change. Our article provides an overview of scholarship on collective and …

Since the Civil Litigation Research Project in the 1980s, sociolegal researchers have
referenced the metaphor of the dispute pyramid to understand dispute resolution. The …

Social movements increasingly utilize litigation strategies to pursue social change. One can
easily find examples of movement groups taking their claims making into the courts to …

Cause lawyers are powerful gatekeepers to the political and legal institutions where the
dynamics between law and social change get played out. Yet, after years of research, we …