Gerald N. Rosenberg

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1954 –

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Who is Gerald N. Rosenberg?

Gerald N. Rosenberg is a University of Chicago political science and law professor, and the author of the 1991 controversial book The Hollow Hope, revised 2nd edition, 2008. The Hollow Hope challenges the widely held belief that the U.S. Supreme Court is an effective agent of social change. Through extensive empirical work, Rosenberg builds an argument that the Supreme Court is structurally constrained from producing social change even when social change plaintiffs win their cases. Focusing on famous Supreme Court cases, particularly Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade, The Hollow Hope argues that they didn’t produce the changes their proponents claim for them.

The Hollow Hope was awarded the Gordon J. Laing Award from the University of Chicago Press in 1993 for a book published by a University of Chicago faculty member that brings the greatest distinction to the Press. It was also given the Wadsworth Award by the Law-Courts section of the American Political Science Association in 2003. In addition, Rosenberg is a 1993 recipient of the Llewellyn John & Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from the University of Chicago.

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Born
1954
Also known as
  • Gerald Rosenberg
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Yale Law School
Employment
  • University of Chicago

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on July 23, 2013

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