Rosenberg, G. N. (2023). The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? (3rd ed.). University of Chicago Press. doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226312507.001.0001.
Not read: no lawful free copy was found on 2026-10-29 (see the status note). The summary is drawn from what the work is standardly cited for and from the exchange’s description of it. A reading should check it first.
Why this is here
A8 offered it as the skeptical companion to Hillebrecht: an empirical account of courts’ limited capacity to make durable change without other institutions. It bears on CLAIM-462, where a court’s judgment and the correction it orders come apart.