The first book-length study of civil rights litigation from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, Race Relations Litigation in an Age of Complexity fills a void in the scholarly literature on American courts and poltics in the post Brown versus Board of Education era.

Stephen L. Wasby is Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Albany. He is author of The Supreme Court in the Federal Judicial System, editor of "He Shall Not Pass This Way Again": The Legacy of Justice Douglas, and he has published numerous articles on judicial administration.