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• W4501329 abstract "The attached paper is part of a larger project I have titled, The “Myth of Rights” Meets the “Myth of Regulation”. When scholars examine the efficacy of using the “law” as a tool of “social reform” or as a catalyst (or inhibitor) of “social movements,” by and large they are referring to judge-made law, particularly cases brought by “cause lawyers” on behalf of a marginalized group. The drawbacks of litigation are well-known to most public interest lawyers familiar with the work of Stuart Scheingold, The Politics of Rights, and Gerald Rosenberg, The Hollow Hope. However, the cause lawyering literature often fails to directly address the limitations within legislative and regulatory approaches. My project seeks to explore whether the “hollow hope” that rights offer would be remedied if the study of rights incorporated insights from studies of regulatory compliance? Implicit in the critique of litigation is the belief that other strategies (i.e., legislative or administrative advocacy or organizing) will yield more than symbolic victories. Unfortunately, to date there has been little comparative research that has directly evaluated the efficacy of litigation relative to other strategies. Charles Epps’ theory of legalized accountability in Making Rights Real: Activists, Bureaucrats, and the Creation of the Legalistic State, is perhaps the closet to my ultimate goal. The takeaway lesson underlying Scheingold’s, McCann’s Rights at Work, and Epps’ recent work is that the power to “make rights real” is largely contingent upon the degree of organizing at the local level. The particular example I am planning to use to highlight my “myth of regulation” is in the area of prisoners’ rights, specifically the anticipated failure of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) to adequately protect vulnerable prisoners (the final regulations to implement PREA are expected to be released this Fall). I started the project by examining scholarship related to cause lawyering in the areas of disability rights, marriage equality, and employment discrimination, but along the way I started to believe that rights-based advocacy for criminal defendants and prisoners work differently than rights for other groups. In fact, I believe that rights don’t work for prisoners – either legally (rights do not work as a prophylactic against poor prison conditions) or rhetorically (prisoners themselves have little to no political leverage as a result of disenfranchisement, and the prisoners’ rights frame does not aid in mobilizing non-prisoners). Therefore, before proceeding further with my project, I wanted to examine why I believe rights don’t work for prisoners. The attached paper is a beginning sketch of that analysis. My focus in this paper is to focus on the inability to use prisoners’ rights as a political tool at the level of discourse. “[C]riminals are the one social group in America that nearly everyone – across political, racial, and class boundaries – feels free to hate.” A larger point I am trying to make in this paper is that as the public interest community of the Left has largely used rights-based speech to articulate a moral vision for reform of our society, the fact that rights don’t work in the context of prisoners’ rights has hampered the ability of advocates to oppose and curtail mass prison expansion and the growth of criminal law itself. Without the language of rights, the Left essentially lacks a way to talk about the injustice of the system, and specifically lacks a way to articulate a moral vision for reforming the system and protecting the rights of prisoners. In addition to the failure of rights-based discourse to provide any rhetorical advantages, I further argue that there are no clear limits on the ability of a state to punish people at the level of liberal theory. Even assuming our criminal law and procedures are operating fairly, I suggest that liberal theory itself poses no requirement that the punishment must be conducted in a just manner." @default.
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