Abstract
For the most part, punctuated equilibrium scholarship has ignored the legal policy change generated by the Supreme Court. In this study, I address this gap though an examination of the Court’s equal protection and gender cases from the 1970s. My case study here has two aims. First, I offer the concept of jurisprudential regimes as a useful device for framing and identifying legal policy punctuations. After identifying Reed v. Reed (1971) as the cutpoint of such a regime, I then use Reed and its progeny to illustrate the promise of culture in explaining stasis and change, specifically focusing on the concepts of cultural cognition and cultural surprise.
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