cover image

The Supreme Court and Legal Change

Abortion and the Death Penalty

Lee Epstein

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 11/2000
Pages: 436
Subject: Law, Social Science | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807861295

DESCRIPTION

The authors analyze abortion and death penalty decisions by the Supreme Court and argue that they provide prime examples of abrupt legal change. After proposing that the strength of legal arguments has at least as much impact on Court decisions as do public opinion and justices' political beliefs, they focus on the way litigators propel certain issues onto the Court's agenda and seek to persuade the justices to affect legal change.