The hollow hope : can courts bring about social change? / Gerald N. Rosenberg.

The dynamic and the constrained court
Bound for glory: Brown and the civil rights revolution
Constraints, conditions, and the courts
Planting the seeds of progress
The current of history
Transforming women's lives: the courts and abortion
Liberating women: the courts and women's rights
The court as catalyst
The tide of history
Cleaning house: the courts, the environment, and reapportionment
Judicial revolution: litigation to reform the criminal law
You've got that loving feeling: the litigation campaign for same-sex marriage
Confusing rights with reality: litigation for same-sex marriage and the counter-mobilization of law
Conclusion: the fly-paper court.