The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement

by Teles, Steven M.

• ISBN13: 9780691146256
• ISBN10: 069114625X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-14
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

Starting in the 1970s, conservatives seeking to reverse the growth of legal liberalism looked not to traditional, electoral politics, but instead toward law schools, professional networks, public interest groups, and the judiciary. In The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement, Steven Teles examines this sometimes fitful, and still only partially successful, conservative challenge to liberal domination of the law and American legal institutions.

Author Biography

Steven M. Teles is associate professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University and a fellow at the New America Foundation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Political Competition, Legal Change, and the New American State	p. 6
The Rise of the Liberal Legal Network	p. 22
Conservative Public Interest Law I: Mistakes Made	p. 58
Law and Economics I: Out of the Wilderness	p. 90
The Federalist Society: Counter-Networking	p. 135
Law and Economics II: Institutionalization	p. 181
Conservative Public Interest Law II: Lessons Learned	p. 220
Conclusion	p. 265
Appendix: Interviews	p. 283
Notes	p. 287
Index	p. 331
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