Shadow Nations: Tribal Sovereignty and the Limits of Legal Pluralism. By N. Bruce Duthu. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 234 pp. $35.00 cloth.

• Date: 01 September 2014
• Published date: 01 September 2014
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/lasr.12097

overturns the buffer zone, it will be interesting to see if what Wilson

describes as the demise of street-level activism is followed by

renewed escalation in clinic protests. More broadly, Wilson’s

insights should lead us to ask whether and how the growing

professionalization of the anti-abortion movement and New Chris-

tian Right politics figures into the appearance, disposition, and

effects of McCullen v. Coakley (2013, 2014) at this particular stage of

the movement-countermovement dynamic in abortion politics.

References

Keck, Thomas M. (2009) “Beyond Backlash: Assessing the Impact of Judicial Decisions

on LGBT Rights,” 43 Law & Society Rev. 151–85.

Klarman, Michael J. (2004) FromJim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle

for Racial Equality. New York: Oxford University Press.

Rosenberg, Gerald N. (2008) The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?, 2nd

ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Cases Cited

Hill v. Colorado 530 U.S. 703 (2000).

McCullen v. Coakley Docket no. 12-1168 (Certiorari Granted: June 24, 2013; Argued:

January 15, 2014).

Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc. v. Williams 43 California Reporter 88 (1995).

Roev.Wade410 U.S. 113 (1973).

Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western New York 519 U.S. 357 (1997).

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Shadow Nations: Tribal Sovereignty and the Limits of Legal Pluralism.

By N. Bruce Duthu. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

234 pp. $35.00 cloth.

Reviewed by K-Sue Park, Department of Rhetoric, University of

California, Berkeley

American Indian tribal sovereignties and U.S. constitutional

democracy do coexist, however fraught their relationship, as insti-

tutions, communities, and practices. In relation to one another, the

United States is the dominant power; its law paradoxically recog-

nizes that tribal sovereignty predates that of the United States, yet

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