New from Oxford University Press, a book that will interest some historians of human rights: The Other Rights Revolution: Conservative Lawyers and the Remaking of American Government by Jefferson Decker (Rutgers). From Oxford's description:
The Other Rights Revolution explains how a little-known collection of lawyers and politicians--with some help from angry property owners and bulldozer-driving Sagebrush Rebels--tried to bring liberal government to heel in the final decades of the twentieth century. Decker demonstrates how legal and constitutional battles over property rights, preservation, and the environment helped to shape the political ideas and policy agendas of modern conservatism. By uncovering the history--including the regionally distinctive experiences of the American West--behind the conservative mobilization in the courts, Decker offers a new interpretation of the Reagan-era right.
H/T Legal History Blog.