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Required Readings

Amazon logo Rosenberg, Gerald. The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Chicago: University of Chicago Press, September 3, 1991. ISBN: 0226727025.

Amazon logo Epp, Charles. The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, October 15, 1998. ISBN: 0226211622.

Amazon logo Omvedt, Gail. Reinventing Revolution: New Social Movements and the Socialist Tradition in India. Armonk, New York: M E Sharpe Inc, June, 1993. ISBN: 0873327853.

Amazon logo Smith, Jackie, Charles Chatfield, and Ron Pugnucco, eds. Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, October 1, 1997. ISBN: 0815627432.

SES #TOPICSREADINGS
Part I: Theoretical Framework
1Introduction
2Social Movements, NGOs and Civil Society: How Are They Different?Amazon logo Cohen, Jean, and Andrew Arato. Civil Society and Political Theory. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992, chapter 10, pp. 492-563. ISBN: 0262031779.

Amazon logo Walzer, Michael. "The Civil Society Argument." In Dimensions of Radical Democracy. Edited by Chantal Mouffe. London: Verso Publishing, 1992, pp. 89-107. ISBN: 0860913449.

Fisher, William. "Doing Good? The Politics and Antipolitics of NGO Practices." Annual Review of Anthropology 26, no. 451 (1997).

Lipschutz, Ronnie D. "Reconstructing World Politics: The Emergence of Global Civil Society." Millenium: Journal of International Studies 21, no. 389 (1992).

Shaw, Martin. "Global Society and Global Responsibility: The Theoretical, Historical, and Political Limits of 'International Society'." Millenium: Journal of International Studies 21, no. 421 (1992).
3Social Movements and the State: How Do They Interact?Amazon logo Foucault, Michel. "Governmentality." In Foucault Effect. Edited by Colin Gordon, et al. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991, pp. 87-118. ISBN: 0226080455.

Amazon logo Kothari, Rajni. "Masses, Classes and the State." In New Social Movements in the South: Empowering the People. Edited by P. Wignaraja. London; Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Zed Books, 1993, pp. 59-75. ISBN: 1856491080.

Parajuli, Promod. "Power and Knowledge in Development Discourse: New Social Movements and the State in India." International Social Science Journal 43, no. 127 (1990): 173-190.

Amazon logo Tarrow, Sidney. "States and Opportunities: The Political Structuring of Social Movements." In Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements. Edited by Doug McAdam, et al. New York; Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 41-61. ISBN: 0521480396.
4Law, Social Movements and Public Policy: Changing Domestic ContextsAmazon logo Theodoulou, Stella Z. "The Contemporary Language of Public Policy: A Starting Point." In Public Policy: The Essential Readings. Edited by Stella Z. Theodoulou, and Matthew A. Cahn. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994, pp. 1-9. ISBN: 0130592552.

Amazon logo Dahl, Robert A. "With the Consent of All." In Public Policy: The Essential Readings. Edited by Stella Z. Theodoulou, and Matthew A. Cahn. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994, pp. 38-45. ISBN: 0130592552.

Amazon logo Miliband, Ralph. "Imperfect Competition." In Public Policy: The Essential Readings. Edited by Stella Z. Theodoulou, and Matthew A. Cahn. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994, pp. 58-66. ISBN: 0130592552.

Amazon logo Mills, C. Wright. "The PowerElite." In Public Policy: The Essential Readings. Edited by Stella Z. Theodoulou, and Matthew A. Cahn. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994, pp. 72-85. ISBN: 0130592552.

Amazon logo Abel, Richard. "Speaking Law to Power: Occasions for Cause Lawyering." In Cause Lawyering: Political Commitments and Professional Responsibilities. Edited by Austin Sarat, and Stuart Scheingold. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 69-117. ISBN: 0195113209.

Amazon logo McCann, Michael, and Silverstein, Helena. "Rethinking Law's "Allurements": A Relational Analysis of Social Movement Lawyers in the United States." In Cause Lawyering. Edited by Austin Sarat, and Stuart Scheingold. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 261-292. ISBN: 0195113209.

Amazon logo Ellmann, Stephe. "Cause Lawyering in the Third World." In Cause Lawyering. Edited by Austin Sarat, and Stuart Scheingold. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 349-430. ISBN: 0195113209.

Rochon, Thomas R., and Daniel A. Mazmanian. "Social Movements and the Policy Process." The Annals, AAPSS 528 (July 1993): 75-87.

Amazon logo Risse, Thomas, Stephen C. Ropp, and Kathryn Sikkink, eds. The Power of Human Rights: International Norms and Domestic Change. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999, chapters 1, and 8. ISBN: 0521658829.
5Law, Social Movements and Public Policy: Changing Global ContextsAmazon logo Smith, Jackie, Charles Chatfield, and Ron Pugnucco, eds. Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State . Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997, chapters 1-4. ISBN: 0815627432.

Amazon logo Falk, Richard. "The Making of Global Citizenship." In Global Visions: Beyond the New World Order. Edited by Jeremy Brecher, et al. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1993, pp. 39-50. ISBN: 0896084604.

Amazon logo Keck, Margaret, and Kathryn Sikkink. Activists Beyond Borders. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998, chapters 1, and 6. ISBN: 0801484561.
Part II: Domestic and Comparative Experience
6Legal and Social Change in the US: Contesting PerspectivesAmazon logo Rosenberg, Gerald. "The Dynamic and the Constrained Court." In The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Chicago: University of Chicago, 1991, pp. 9-36, and 336-343. ISBN: 0226727025.

Marshall, Anna-Maria. Judicial Policy-Making and Sexual Harassment: A Response to Rosenberg's The Hollow Hope. (Unpublished)

Amazon logo Epp, Charles. The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998, chapters 3, and 4, pp. 26-70. ISBN: 0226211622.

Rubin, Edward L. "Passing Through the Door: Social Movement Literature and Legal Scholarship." University of Pennsylvania Law Review 150, no. 1 (2001).
7Environment as an Arena of StruggleR.I.S.E. v. Kay 768 F. Supp. 1144 (E.D. Va, 1991).

Amazon logo Rosenberg, Gerald. The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Chicago: University of Chicago, 1991, pp. 271-292. ISBN: 0226727025.

Amazon logo Gedicks, Al. "Resource Colonialism and International Native Resistance." In The New Resource Wars: Native and Environmental Struggles Against Multinational Corporations. Edited by Al Gedicks. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1993, pp. 13-38. ISBN: 0896084639.

Amazon logo Shutkin, William. The Land that Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, MA; London: MIT Press, 2000, chapter 3. ISBN: 026219435X.
8Speaker

Prof. Cary Coglianese, JFK School of Government, Harvard University
Coglianese, Cary. "Social Movements, Law and Society: The Institutionalization of the Environmental Movement." University of Pennsylvania Law Review 150, no. 85 (2001).
9Feminism and Women's MovementsMeritor Savings Bank v. Vinson 477 U.S. 57 (1986).

Amazon logo Rosenberg, Gerald. The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Chicago: University of Chicago, 1991, Part II, chapters 7, 8, and 9. ISBN: 0226727025.

Amazon logo Marshall, Anna-Maria. "A Spectrum of Oppositional Consciousness: Sexual Harassment Plaintiffs and Their Lawyers." In Oppositional Consciousness. Edited by Jane J. Mansbridge and Aldon Morris. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. chapter 5. ISBN: 0226503623.

Amazon logo McCann, Michael W. Rights at Work: Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994, chapters 2, 3, 7, and 8. ISBN: 0226555720.
10Speaker

Prof. Ann Withorn, U Mass, Boston
11Property, Poor peoples' movements and social justiceState v. Shack 277 A.2d 369 (N.J. 1971).

Pottinger v. City of Miami, 810 F.Supp. 1551 (S.D. Fla. 1992).

Amazon logo Fox-Piven, Frances, and Richard Cloward. Poor Peoples' Movements. New York: Random House (Vintage Books Edition), 1978, chapters 1 (pp. 1-40), and 3 (pp. 96-180). ISBN: 0394726979.

Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams. "Race, Reform, and Retrenchment: Transformation and Legitimation in Antidiscrimination Law." Harvard Law Review 101, no. 1331 (1988): 1-7; 16-20; 48-70.
12Legal and Social Change in India: The Role of Mobilization and ActivismAmazon logo Omvedt, Gail. "The Rise of Alternative Politics." In Reinventing Revolution: New Social Movements and the Socialist Traditions in India. Armonk, NY: M E Sharpe Inc, 1993, pp. 257-297. ISBN: 0873327853.

Amazon logo Epp, Charles. The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998, chapters 5, and 6, pp. 71-110. ISBN: 0226211622.
13Women's rights v. Gender JusticeSheela Barse v. State of Maharashtra 2 SCC 96 (1983).

Kapur, Ratna, and Brenda Cossman. "On Women, Equality and the Constitution: Through the Looking Glass of Feminism." National Law Journal 1, no. 1 (1993).

Amazon logo Basu, Amrita. "Introduction." In The Challenge of Local Feminisms. Edited by A. Basu, and C. E. McGrory. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995, pp. 1-21. ISBN: 0813326281.

Amazon logo Omvedt, Gail. Reinventing Revolution: New Social Movements and the Socialist Traditions in India. Armonk, NY: M E Sharpe Inc, 1993, chapters 4 (pp. 76-99), and 9 (pp. 199-231). ISBN: 0873327853.

Amazon logo Calman, Leslie J. Toward Empowerment: Women and Movement Politics in India. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992, chapters 5 (pp. 117-146), and 8 (pp. 183-199). ISBN: 0813316952.
14Speaker

Prof. Jyoti Puri, Simmons College
15Environmentalism of the PoorM. C. Mehta v. Union of India, AIR 1988 SC.1037.

Amazon logo Guha, Ramachandra. "The Environmentalism of the Poor." In Between Resistance and Revolution. Edited by Richard G. Fox, and Orin Starn. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997, pp. 17-39. ISBN: 0813524164.

Amazon logo Sethi, Harsh. "Survival and Democracy: Ecological Struggles." In New Social Movements in the South. Edited by Poona Wignaraja. London; Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Zed Books, 1993, pp. 122-148. ISBN: 1856491080.

Amazon logo Omvedt, Gail. "The Environmental Movement." In Reinventing Revolution: New Social Movements and the Socialist Traditions in India. Armonk, NY: M E Sharpe Inc, 1993, pp. 127-152. ISBN: 0873327853.
16Contesting Development: The Movement in the Narmada Valley - A case studyAmazon logo Fisher, William. "Development and Resistance in the Narmada Valley." In Toward Sustainable Development? Struggling over India's Narmada River. Edited by William Fisher. Armonk, NY: M E Sharpe, 1995, pp. 3-46. ISBN: 1563245256.

Amazon logo Kothari, Smitu. "Damming the Narmada and the Politics of Development." Toward Sustainable Development? Struggling over India's Narmada River. Edited by William Fisher. Armonk, NY: M E Sharpe, 1995, pp. 421-444. ISBN: 1563245256.

Amazon logo Patkar, Medha. "The Struggle for Participation and Justice." Toward Sustainable Development? Struggling over India's Narmada River. Edited by William Fisher. Armonk, NY: M E Sharpe, 1995, pp. 157-178. ISBN: 1563245256.

Narmada Bachao Andolan v. Union of India and Others, Supreme Court of India, October 18, 2000 (Excerpts of the Judgment).

Sachar, Rajinder. "Narmada: A Human Rights Issue." The Hindu, October 30, 2000.
17Screening a Movie, Kaise Jeebo Re (How do I survive, my friend) and Discussion Continued on the Narmada Valley Movement
18Civil rights and Public Interest Litigation - 15 NovemberS. P. Gupta v. Union of India, A.I.R. 1982 S.C. 149 (Judgment of Justice Bhagwati).

Amazon logo Baxi, Upendra. "Taking Suffering Seriously." in Judges and the Judicial Power. Edited by Rajeev Dhavan, Bombay: N. M. Tripathi, 1985. ISBN: 0421288604.

Bhagwati, P. N. "Judicial Activism and Public Interest Litigation." Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 23, no. 561 (1985).

Amazon logo Baar, Carl. "Social Action Litigation in India: The Operation and Limits of the World's Most Active Judiciary." In Comparative Judicial Review and Public Policy. Edited by Donald W. Jackson, and C. Neal Tate. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992. ISBN: 0313286159.
Part III: Global Public Policy and Globalization From Below
19Beyond the State? Changing Contexts for Law-making and Application at the Global LevelAmazon logo Alger, Chadwick F. "Transnational Social Movements, World Politics and Global Governance." In Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State . Edited by Jackie Smith, Charles Chatfield, and Ron Pugnucco. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0815627432.

Amazon logo Falk, Richard. "Environmental Protection in an Era of Globalization." In Law in an Emerging Global Village. Ardsley, NY: Transnational Publishers, 1998, pp. 109-134. ISBN: 1571050663.

Amazon logo Keck, Margaret, and Kathryn Sikkink. Activists Beyond Borders. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998, chapter 2. ISBN: 0801484561.
20The World Commission on Dams and the Struggle over DevelopmentBradlow, Daniel. "The World Commission on Dams's Contribution to the Broader Debate on Development Decision-making." American University International Law Review 16, no. 1531 (2001).
21Setting Global Environmental and Health Policy: The Case of Nuclear WeaponsAmazon logo Falk, Richard. "The Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion and the New Jurisprudence of Global Civil Society." In Law in an Emerging Global Village. Ardsley, New York: Transnational Publishers, 1998, pp. 165-188. ISBN: 1571050663.

Amazon logo Cortright, David, and Ron Pagnucco. "Limits to Transnationalism: The 1980s Freeze Campaign." In Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State . Edited by Jackie Smith, Charles Chatfield, and Ron Pugnucco. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0815627432.

Amazon logo Garb, Paula, and Galena Komarova. "A History of Environmental Activism in Chelyabinsk." In Critical Masses: Citizens, Nuclear Weapons Production, and Environmental Destruction in the United States and Russia. Edited by Russell J. Dalton, et al. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999, pp. 165-192. ISBN: 0262541033.
22Peace and security from belowAmazon logo Coy, Patrick. "Cooperative Accompaniment and Peace Brigades International in Sri Lanka." In Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State . Edited by Jackie Smith, Charles Chatfield, and Ron Pugnucco. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0815627432.

Amazon logo DeMars, William. "Contending Neutralities: Humanitarian Organizations and War in the Horn of Africa." In Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State . Edited by Jackie Smith, Charles Chatfield, and Ron Pugnucco. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0815627432.

Amazon logo Pagnucco, Ron. "The Transnational Strategies of the Service for Peace and Justice in Latin America." In Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State . Edited by Jackie Smith, Charles Chatfield, and Ron Pugnucco. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0815627432.

Amazon logo Atwood, David C. "Mobilizing Around the United Nations Special Session on Disarmament." In Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State . Edited by Jackie Smith, Charles Chatfield, and Ron Pugnucco. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0815627432.
23Global Economic Institutions and Resistance from the Margins: The World Bank and the IMFAmazon logo O'Brien, Robert, et al. Contesting Global Governance: Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social Movements. Cambridge University Press, 2000, chapters 2, 4, and 5. ISBN: 0521773156.

Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. "From Resistance to Renewal: The Third World, Social Movements And The Expansion Of International Institutions." Harvard International Law Journal 529, 41, no. 2 (2000).
24The World Trade Organization and the Meaning of SeattleAmazon logo O'Brien, Robert, et al. Contesting Global Governance: Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social Movements. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000, chapter 3. ISBN: 0521773156.

Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. "Taking Seattle Resistance Seriously." The Hindu. Op-Ed, December 11, 1999.

Amsden, Alice. "Ending Isolationism," Dissent (Spring 2000): 13-16.

Review of International Political Economy 7, no. 3 (2000): 466-504.
25Human Rights and Global Public Policy: Corporate Responsibility

Speaker

Terry Collingsworth, Director, International Labor Rights Fund
Amazon logo Keck, Margaret, and Kathryn Sikkink. Activists Beyond Borders. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998, chapters 3, and 5. ISBN: 0801484561.

Amazon logo Hovey, Michael W. "Interceding at the United Nations: The Human Right of Conscientious Objection." In Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State . Edited by Jackie Smith, Charles Chatfield, and Ron Pugnucco. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0815627432.

Meyer, W. H. "Human Rights and MNCs: Theory v. Quantitative Analysis." Human Rights Quarterly 369, no. 18 (1996).

Doe I v. Unocol Corp. 963 F.Supp. 880 (C.D. Cal.1997).

Amazon logo Stephens, Beth. "Corporate Accountability: International Human Rights Litigation against Corporations in U. S. Courts." In Liability of Multinational Corporations under International Law 216. Edited by Menno T. Kamminga, and Saman Zia-Zarifi. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2000. ISBN: 9041115048.
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