Gerald N. Rosenberg is associate professor of political science emeritus and a lecturer of law at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Washington, DC, bar.

"The third edition is a major revision, updating, revising, and expanding the material on civil rights, abortion, women’s rights, and marriage equality. In particular, it analyzes the resegregation of public schools, showing how the conditions necessary for courts to produce progressive change waned, limiting judicial efficacy."

• List of Tables and FiguresPreface to the Third EditionPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First EditionIntroduction1: The Dynamic and the Constrained CourtPart 1: Civil Rights2: Bound for Glory? Brown and the Civil Rights Revolution3: Constraints, Conditions, and the Courts4: Planting the Seeds of Progress?5: The Current of HistoryPart 2: Abortion and Women’s Rights6: Transforming Women’s Lives? The Courts and Abortion7: Liberating Women? The Courts and Women’s Rights8: The Court as Catalyst?9: The Tide of HistoryPart 3: Marriage Equality10: You’ve Got That Loving Feeling? The Litigation Campaign for Marriage Equality11: What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: Mobilization, Countermobilization, and State Action12: The Times They Are a-Changing13: Conclusion: The Fly-Paper CourtEpilogueAppendixes1.         Black Children in Elementary and Secondary School with Whites, State-by-State Breakdown, 1954–19722.         Blacks at Predominantly White Public Colleges and Universities: State-by-State Breakdown3.         Black Voter Registration in the Southern States, Pre– and Post–Voting Rights Act, State-by-State Breakdown4.         Data Correction for Table 2.55.         Laws and Actions Designed to Preserve Segregation6.         Method for Obtaining Information for Table 4.1 and Figure 4.17.         Illegal Abortions8.         Method for Obtaining Information for Tables 8.1a, 8.1b, 8.2a, and 8.2b, and for Figures 8.1 and 8.29.         Make Change, Not Lawsuits10.       Coding Rules and Method for Obtaining Information for Tables 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, and 12.6Case ReferencesReferencesIndex

Gerald N. Rosenberg is associate professor of political science emeritus and a lecturer of law at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Washington, DC, bar.

"The third edition is a major revision, updating, revising, and expanding the material on civil rights, abortion, women’s rights, and marriage equality. In particular, it analyzes the resegregation of public schools, showing how the conditions necessary for courts to produce progressive change waned, limiting judicial efficacy."

• List of Tables and FiguresPreface to the Third EditionPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First EditionIntroduction1: The Dynamic and the Constrained CourtPart 1: Civil Rights2: Bound for Glory? Brown and the Civil Rights Revolution3: Constraints, Conditions, and the Courts4: Planting the Seeds of Progress?5: The Current of HistoryPart 2: Abortion and Women’s Rights6: Transforming Women’s Lives? The Courts and Abortion7: Liberating Women? The Courts and Women’s Rights8: The Court as Catalyst?9: The Tide of HistoryPart 3: Marriage Equality10: You’ve Got That Loving Feeling? The Litigation Campaign for Marriage Equality11: What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: Mobilization, Countermobilization, and State Action12: The Times They Are a-Changing13: Conclusion: The Fly-Paper CourtEpilogueAppendixes1.         Black Children in Elementary and Secondary School with Whites, State-by-State Breakdown, 1954–19722.         Blacks at Predominantly White Public Colleges and Universities: State-by-State Breakdown3.         Black Voter Registration in the Southern States, Pre– and Post–Voting Rights Act, State-by-State Breakdown4.         Data Correction for Table 2.55.         Laws and Actions Designed to Preserve Segregation6.         Method for Obtaining Information for Table 4.1 and Figure 4.17.         Illegal Abortions8.         Method for Obtaining Information for Tables 8.1a, 8.1b, 8.2a, and 8.2b, and for Figures 8.1 and 8.29.         Make Change, Not Lawsuits10.       Coding Rules and Method for Obtaining Information for Tables 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, and 12.6Case ReferencesReferencesIndex

Gerald N. Rosenberg is associate professor of political science emeritus and a lecturer of law at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Washington, DC, bar.

"The third edition is a major revision, updating, revising, and expanding the material on civil rights, abortion, women’s rights, and marriage equality. In particular, it analyzes the resegregation of public schools, showing how the conditions necessary for courts to produce progressive change waned, limiting judicial efficacy."

• List of Tables and FiguresPreface to the Third EditionPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First EditionIntroduction1: The Dynamic and the Constrained CourtPart 1: Civil Rights2: Bound for Glory? Brown and the Civil Rights Revolution3: Constraints, Conditions, and the Courts4: Planting the Seeds of Progress?5: The Current of HistoryPart 2: Abortion and Women’s Rights6: Transforming Women’s Lives? The Courts and Abortion7: Liberating Women? The Courts and Women’s Rights8: The Court as Catalyst?9: The Tide of HistoryPart 3: Marriage Equality10: You’ve Got That Loving Feeling? The Litigation Campaign for Marriage Equality11: What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: Mobilization, Countermobilization, and State Action12: The Times They Are a-Changing13: Conclusion: The Fly-Paper CourtEpilogueAppendixes1.         Black Children in Elementary and Secondary School with Whites, State-by-State Breakdown, 1954–19722.         Blacks at Predominantly White Public Colleges and Universities: State-by-State Breakdown3.         Black Voter Registration in the Southern States, Pre– and Post–Voting Rights Act, State-by-State Breakdown4.         Data Correction for Table 2.55.         Laws and Actions Designed to Preserve Segregation6.         Method for Obtaining Information for Table 4.1 and Figure 4.17.         Illegal Abortions8.         Method for Obtaining Information for Tables 8.1a, 8.1b, 8.2a, and 8.2b, and for Figures 8.1 and 8.29.         Make Change, Not Lawsuits10.       Coding Rules and Method for Obtaining Information for Tables 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, and 12.6Case ReferencesReferencesIndex