Only Judgment: The Limits of Litigation in Social Change

by Neier, Aryeh

• ISBN13: 9781617700446
• ISBN10: 1617700444
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-31
• Publisher: Central European Univ Pr

Summary

IDEBATE Press is proud to reissue this classic work on public interest litigation with a new foreword by the author.

Author Biography

Aryeh Neier is president emeritus of the Open Society Foundations. He served as president from 1993 to 2012. Prior to joining the Open Society Foundations, he was executive director of Human Rights Watch, of which he was a founder. Before that, he worked at the American Civil Liberties Union, including eight years as national executive director. He served as an adjunct professor of law at New York University for more than a dozen years, and has also taught at Georgetown University Law School and the University of Siena (Italy). Neier is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and has published in many other periodicals. He is the author of seven books, including his most recent, The International Human Rights Movement: A History (2012). He has lectured at many universities around the world and is the recipient of six honorary degrees and numerous awards.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 1
Acknowledgments	p. 4
Introduction	p. 5
Making Pluralism Work	p. 13
Thoughts on Legitimacy	p. 21
Racial Equality: Assuming Leadership	p. 41
Racial Equality: Relinquishing Leadership	p. 75
Political Equality: A Lustrous Achievement	p. 102
Sexual Equality and the Difficulties of Sisterhood	p. 121
Abortion: Retreating under Fire	p. 140
Ending Poverty: Too Great a Task	p. 162
Challenging War: A Futile Effort	p. 180
Challenging the National Security State: A Not-So-Futile Effort	p. 197
Reforming Asylums: No Other Way	p. 216
Stopping Executions without Abolishing Capital Punishment	p. 246
Protecting the Environment: The Wrong Way	p. 270
Thoughts on Results	p. 285
Conclusion: Further Thoughts on Legitimacy	p. 299
Notes	p. 310
Index	p. 321
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