Environmental Litigation in China: A Study in Political Ambivalence. By Rachel E. Stern. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013. 300 pp. $99 cloth.

• Published date: 01 December 2014
• Date: 01 December 2014
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/lasr.12115

Overall, Kanter and Ferri have produced a highly readable and

thoughtful anthology which will be of great use to legal scholars.

One area that I think warrants future attention is the role played

by teachers’ unions in the accommodation process. There is a

rich and controversial history on the questionable role played by

many American trade unions during the long struggle against Jim

Crow (Hill 1998). It stands to reason that teachers’ unions, often

overwhelmed with their own struggles, did not necessarily always

enthusiastically support inclusion of students with disabilities.

Scholars working at the intersection of disability studies, law, and

education are ideally placed to analyze this history. The editors

might have also divided the book into sections. Nonetheless, this

volume poses many questions for future generations of scholars to

answer and deserves to be read widely.

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Hill, Herbert (1998) “Lichtenstein’s Fictions: Meany, Reuther and the 1964 Civil Rights

Act,” 7 New Politics 82–107.

Jones, Melinda, & Lee Ann Basser Marks, eds. (1999) Disability, Divers-Ability, and Legal

Change. The Hague: Kluwer Law.

Malhotra, Ravi, & Morgan Rowe (2014) Exploring Disability Identity and Disability Rights

through Narratives: Finding a Voice of Their Own. London, UK: Routledge.

Nussbaum, Martha (2006) Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership.

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Environmental Litigation in China: A Study in Political Ambivalence.

By Rachel E. Stern. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ.

Press, 2013. 300 pp. $99 cloth.

Reviewed by Sida Liu, Department of Sociology, University of

Wisconsin-Madison

Why would anyone read a book on environmental litigation in

China? The obvious answer seems to be China’s increasingly

serious environmental problems, from polluted air in cities to

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