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The Rights Revolution and Support Structures for Rights Advocacy

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Epp Charles R., The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xv + 326 pages. $17.00 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Ann Southworth
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Law & Society Review , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , 2000 , pp. 1203 - 1219
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Copyright © 2000 by the Law and Society Association

Footnotes

This essay benefited from my conversations with Mel Durchsiag, Jonathan Entin, Michael Heise, Andrew Morriss, and Robert Strassfeld.

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