Michael W Mccann
Biographic Data
| ID | 302070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael W Mccann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael W |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccann |
| SIGNATURE | MCCANN M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
When might claims of “too much litigation” be other than political sloganeering?
This paper answers “Too Much Litigation?” in three ways. First, when politicos presume or assert that the culture of the United States suffers too much litigation, they often trade in political talking points, expedient distortions, disingenuous enumeration, and opportunistic anecdotalism that tend to preserve or increase the advantages of those who have more over those who have less. Second, when analysts inquire what kinds of litigation serve w…
Interests, Ideas, and Institutions in Comparative Analysis of Judicial Power
In a high-profile 1993 publication about the status of scholarship titled Public Law and Judicial Politics, Martin Shapiro wrote that science study of comparative constitutional law and has begun flourish a little. He celebrated the fact that a growing, if still small, group of political scientists was attempting to undertake comparative analysis of comparable systemic comparative work on legislatures, executives and bureaucracies. However, he la…
Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis
Rights at work: Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization
McCann explains how wage discrimination battles have raised public legal consciousness and helped reform activists mobilize working women in the pay equity movement over the past two decades. Rights at Work explores the political strategies in more than a dozen pay equity struggles since the late 1970s, including battles of state employees in Washington and Connecticut, as well as city employees in San Jose and Los Angeles. Relying on interviews …
Reform Litigation on Trial
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Resistance, Reconstruction, and Romance in Legal Scholarship
It has become obligatory for leaders of professional associations to exhort colleagues to practice their craft in a socially responsible manner. But Joel Handler has issued a more controversial challenge in his 1992 presidential address to the Law and Society Association. He marries the idea of responsible legal scholarship to a recovery of faith in structuralist political analysis and transformative political vision.Many in the association no do…
Public Interest Liberalism & the Modern Regulatory State
Liberal public interest groups have been a prominent and enduring feature of public policy making in the modern state. This article argues that neither the prevailing corporatist nor pluralist model of group politics adequately explains the unique character of these modern reform groups. A model of radical pluralism is developed to explain the liberal activist embrace of judicial institutions as both an instrumental resource in policy advocacy an…
Resurrection and Reform: Perspectives on Property in the American Constitutional Tradition
Resistance, Reconstruction, and Romance in Legal Scholarship
It has become obligatory for leaders of professional associations to exhort colleagues to practice their craft in a socially responsible manner. But Joel Handler has issued a more controversial challenge in his 1992 presidential address to the Law and Society Association. He marries the idea of responsible legal scholarship to a recovery of faith in structuralist political analysis and transformative political vision.Many in the association no do…
Resurrection and Reform: Perspectives on Property in the American Constitutional Tradition
Public Interest Liberalism & the Modern Regulatory State
Liberal public interest groups have been a prominent and enduring feature of public policy making in the modern state. This article argues that neither the prevailing corporatist nor pluralist model of group politics adequately explains the unique character of these modern reform groups. A model of radical pluralism is developed to explain the liberal activist embrace of judicial institutions as both an instrumental resource in policy advocacy an…
Interests, Ideas, and Institutions in Comparative Analysis of Judicial Power
In a high-profile 1993 publication about the status of scholarship titled Public Law and Judicial Politics, Martin Shapiro wrote that science study of comparative constitutional law and has begun flourish a little. He celebrated the fact that a growing, if still small, group of political scientists was attempting to undertake comparative analysis of comparable systemic comparative work on legislatures, executives and bureaucracies. However, he la…
Rights at work: Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization
McCann explains how wage discrimination battles have raised public legal consciousness and helped reform activists mobilize working women in the pay equity movement over the past two decades. Rights at Work explores the political strategies in more than a dozen pay equity struggles since the late 1970s, including battles of state employees in Washington and Connecticut, as well as city employees in San Jose and Los Angeles. Relying on interviews …
Reform Litigation on Trial
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Resurrection and Reform: Perspectives on Property in the American Constitutional Tradition
Public Interest Liberalism & the Modern Regulatory State
Liberal public interest groups have been a prominent and enduring feature of public policy making in the modern state. This article argues that neither the prevailing corporatist nor pluralist model of group politics adequately explains the unique character of these modern reform groups. A model of radical pluralism is developed to explain the liberal activist embrace of judicial institutions as both an instrumental resource in policy advocacy an…
Reform Litigation on Trial
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Resistance, Reconstruction, and Romance in Legal Scholarship
It has become obligatory for leaders of professional associations to exhort colleagues to practice their craft in a socially responsible manner. But Joel Handler has issued a more controversial challenge in his 1992 presidential address to the Law and Society Association. He marries the idea of responsible legal scholarship to a recovery of faith in structuralist political analysis and transformative political vision.Many in the association no do…
Rights at work: Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization
McCann explains how wage discrimination battles have raised public legal consciousness and helped reform activists mobilize working women in the pay equity movement over the past two decades. Rights at Work explores the political strategies in more than a dozen pay equity struggles since the late 1970s, including battles of state employees in Washington and Connecticut, as well as city employees in San Jose and Los Angeles. Relying on interviews …
Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis
Interests, Ideas, and Institutions in Comparative Analysis of Judicial Power
In a high-profile 1993 publication about the status of scholarship titled Public Law and Judicial Politics, Martin Shapiro wrote that science study of comparative constitutional law and has begun flourish a little. He celebrated the fact that a growing, if still small, group of political scientists was attempting to undertake comparative analysis of comparable systemic comparative work on legislatures, executives and bureaucracies. However, he la…
When might claims of “too much litigation” be other than political sloganeering?
This paper answers “Too Much Litigation?” in three ways. First, when politicos presume or assert that the culture of the United States suffers too much litigation, they often trade in political talking points, expedient distortions, disingenuous enumeration, and opportunistic anecdotalism that tend to preserve or increase the advantages of those who have more over those who have less. Second, when analysts inquire what kinds of litigation serve w…
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Judicial and Constitutional Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law and economics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Political economy (2 works)