Unleashing Rights: Law, Meaning, and the Animal Rights Movement. (book reviews)

John Brigham, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

This book is part of the series "Law, Meaning, and Violence," a source of scholarship that shows how to see law in more than instrumental ways. The preoccupation of lawyers with the law's capacity to govern outcomes in courts or the behavior of citizens is understandable. While not as instrumental as lawyers, many political scientists have also been driven by interest in outcomes. This book is grounded in another political science, the transformative effort by Stuart Scheingold in The Politics of Rights (1974), more than ...

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