“Because the welfare poor are in positions of continuing dependency, they must engage in an uphill struggle to make their voices heard and their understandings of right and justice part of the legal order” (pg 377, Sarat, Yale Journal of law & the Humanities). For example, in the Roe v. Wade decision, legal consciousness of the public plated a critical role in determining that making abortion available option to the women population is not a matter that needs the attention of the Supreme courts. Our legal consciousness is shaped by legitimacy and it can form our perception about empowerment (Duke Law Journal, pg 781, 1994). “Exploring the high group, low grid zone of dissenting collectivism opens up a palace where collective identity is particularly significant, yet state law to varying degree is rejected” (Simon Halliday and Bronwen Morgan, pg. 30).
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The weaknesses of legal consciousness as argued by Galanter is that the legal structures are designed in a way that privileges repeat players who participate in an ongoing legal litigation that have minimum stakes in the final decision of the
The weaknesses of legal consciousness as argued by Galanter is that the legal structures are designed in a way that privileges repeat players who participate in an ongoing legal litigation that have minimum stakes in the final decision of the