LWSOC-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: John M. Olin Foundation, American Civil Liberties Union, Burger Court
18 Oct 2016
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Steven teles, the rise of the conservative legal movement: what factors of law and legal practice motivate socio-legal change according to. Supply aspect of the law; there are many factors that motivate litigation. Hifts i(cid:374) the (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)ept of (cid:862)pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) i(cid:374)terest(cid:863) 50s and 60s it became naturalized. Mo(cid:448)e (cid:271)eyo(cid:374)d judi(cid:272)ial sele(cid:272)tio(cid:374) to look at (cid:862)(cid:374)o(cid:374)-electoral issues(cid:863). Hift fro(cid:373) the politi(cid:272)s of rights; (cid:272)hei(cid:374)gold fo(cid:272)uses o(cid:374) e(cid:448)eryday people and how imagination motivates action. Lawyers are using the law and committed to realizing social justice. It was backed by businesses; transparent business interests, no long-term goals. Mountain states legal fund (mslf) had a libertarian ideology, conflicted w/ (cid:271)usi(cid:374)esses" self-i(cid:374)terests. They did(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a large, sympathetic group like liberals did (changed w/ nixon and bush). There was a poor organizational fit, matching the conservative ideology of decentralization. Law and economics is a field of law that could work with business; regulatory agencies were tasked with regulating capital excesses.
