Examines the implementation of the rights revolution, bringing together a distinguished group of political scientists and legal scholars who study the roles of agencies and courts in shaping the enforcement of civil rights statutes.

Part I. Introduction: 1. Reassessing the rights revolution Lynda G. Dodd; Part II. Implementing the Rights Revolution: 2. Approaches to enforcing the rights revolution: private civil rights litigation and the American bureaucracy Quinn Mulroy; 3. Mobilizing rights at the agency level: the first interpretations of Title VII's sex provision Jennifer Woodward; 4. Motivating litigants to enforce public goods: evidence from employment, housing, and voting discrimination policy Paul Gardner; 5. Regulatory rights: civil rights agencies, courts, and the entrenchment of language rights Ming Hsu Chen; 6. Sexual harassment and the evolving civil rights state R. Shep Melnick; 7. The civil rights template and the Americans with Disabilities Act: a socio-legal perspective on the promise and limits of individual rights Thomas F. Burke and Jeb Barnes; Part III. Rights and Retrenchment: 8. Retrenching civil rights litigation: why the court succeeded where congress failed Stephen Burbank and Sean Farhang; 9. The contours of the Supreme Court's civil rights counterrevolution Lynda G. Dodd; 10. Constraining aid, retrenching access: legal services after the rights revolution Sarah Staszak; Part IV. The Future of the Rights Revolution: 11. Rationalizing rights: political control of litigation David Freeman Engstrom; 12. The future of private enforcement of civil rights Lynda G. Dodd.