Amazon.com description: Product Description: Efforts to implement social change - even those which are most rational and carefully constructed - are all too often forced to give way to the constraints of the legal system. Through the construction of authority, the marginalization of dissenting views, and the structure of institutions and language designed to replicate established opinion, the law and the legal profession consistently and systematically block not just the possibility of change but even our ability to imagine it. Delgado and Stefancic cast light on the many legal forces working against social change, revealing the defences, brakes and conservative impulses that work to undermine the realization of revolutionary goals.