Abstract
McCann argues that the effects of legal mobilization by social movements should be understood as catalysts to stimulate social construction of right consciousness. Through the examination of the effects of legal mobilization in Japan, the direct impacts toward the policy making process are undoubtedly hard to be found. But the social construction of right consciousness should be understood as only a part of various indirect effects. Recurrently filed litigation has given other impacts toward the policy making process through various ways.
