2005 • $48.00 • 482 pp • paper
Tags: Civil Rights/Race and the Law, Constitutional Law, Courts, Elder Law, Labor/Employment Law, Refugee/Immigration/Border Issues Law, Women and the Law
Awakening from the Dream: Civil Rights Under Siege and the New Struggle for Equal Justice exposes the Supreme Court’s methodical dismantling of federal laws that advance inclusion, equal membership, political participation, and economic mobility in our diverse national community. The ongoing Federalism Revolution has crippled Congress’s legislative powers and made it difficult for individuals to bring suit to enforce their civil rights. Activists, law professors, public interest lawyers, and students discuss some of the Americans who have been deprived of justice by this rollback, making vivid the impact of the increasingly right-wing federal judiciary.
The book, which stems from a Columbia Law School conference celebrating the birth of the National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights, is divided into five parts.
The foreword is written by Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of UC Irvine School of Law.
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