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

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

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

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.

Readings Table

SES #	TOPICS	READINGS
Part I: Theoretical Framework
1	Introduction
2	Social Movements, NGOs and Civil Society: How Are They Different?	Cohen, Jean, and Andrew Arato. Civil Society and Political Theory. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992, chapter 10, pp. 492-563. ISBN: 0262031779. 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).
3	Social Movements and the State: How Do They Interact?	Foucault, Michel. "Governmentality." In Foucault Effect. Edited by Colin Gordon, et al. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991, pp. 87-118. ISBN: 0226080455. 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. 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.
4	Law, Social Movements and Public Policy: Changing Domestic Contexts	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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
5	Law, Social Movements and Public Policy: Changing Global Contexts	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. 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. 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
6	Legal and Social Change in the US: Contesting Perspectives	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) 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).
7	Environment as an Arena of Struggle	R.I.S.E. v. Kay 768 F. Supp. 1144 (E.D. Va, 1991). Rosenberg, Gerald. The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Chicago: University of Chicago, 1991, pp. 271-292. ISBN: 0226727025. 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. 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.
8	Speaker 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).
9	Feminism and Women's Movements	Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson 477 U.S. 57 (1986). 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. 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. 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.
10	Speaker Prof. Ann Withorn, U Mass, Boston
11	Property, Poor peoples' movements and social justice	State v. Shack 277 A.2d 369 (N.J. 1971). Pottinger v. City of Miami, 810 F.Supp. 1551 (S.D. Fla. 1992). 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.
12	Legal and Social Change in India: The Role of Mobilization and Activism	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. 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.
13	Women's rights v. Gender Justice	Sheela 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). 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. 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. 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.
14	Speaker Prof. Jyoti Puri, Simmons College
15	Environmentalism of the Poor	M. C. Mehta v. Union of India, AIR 1988 SC.1037. 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. 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. 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.
16	Contesting Development: The Movement in the Narmada Valley - A case study	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. 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. 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.
17	Screening a Movie, Kaise Jeebo Re (How do I survive, my friend) and Discussion Continued on the Narmada Valley Movement
18	Civil rights and Public Interest Litigation - 15 November	S. P. Gupta v. Union of India, A.I.R. 1982 S.C. 149 (Judgment of Justice Bhagwati). 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). 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
19	Beyond the State? Changing Contexts for Law-making and Application at the Global Level	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. 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. Keck, Margaret, and Kathryn Sikkink. Activists Beyond Borders. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998, chapter 2. ISBN: 0801484561.
20	The World Commission on Dams and the Struggle over Development	Bradlow, 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).
21	Setting Global Environmental and Health Policy: The Case of Nuclear Weapons	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. 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. 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.
22	Peace and security from below	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. 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. 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. 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.
23	Global Economic Institutions and Resistance from the Margins: The World Bank and the IMF	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).
24	The World Trade Organization and the Meaning of Seattle	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.
25	Human Rights and Global Public Policy: Corporate Responsibility Speaker Terry Collingsworth, Director, International Labor Rights Fund	Keck, Margaret, and Kathryn Sikkink. Activists Beyond Borders. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998, chapters 3, and 5. ISBN: 0801484561. 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). 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.
26	Conclusion and Review Class