| Rights at work: Pay equity reform and the politics of legal mobilization MW McCann University of Chicago Press, 1994 | 2373 | 1994 |
| Distorting the law: Politics, media, and the litigation crisis W Haltom, M McCann University of Chicago Press, 2009 | 601 | 2009 |
| Law and social movements: Contemporary perspectives M McCann Annu. Rev. Law Soc. Sci. 2 (1), 17-38, 2006 | 588 | 2006 |
| Reform litigation on trial MW McCann Law & Social Inquiry 17 (4), 715-743, 1992 | 296 | 1992 |
| Taking reform seriously: Perspectives on public interest liberalism MW McCann (No Title), 1986 | 251 | 1986 |
| Causal versus constitutive explanations (or, on the difficulty of being so positive…) M McCann Law & Social Inquiry 21 (2), 457-482, 1996 | 202 | 1996 |
| How does law matter for social movements? MW McCann How does law matter 76, 88, 1998 | 171 | 1998 |
| Law and social movements M McCann The Blackwell companion to law and society 506, 509, 2004 | 168 | 2004 |
| Litigation and legal mobilization M McCann | 154 | 2008 |
| Rethinking law’s ‘allurements’: A relational analysis of social movement lawyers in the United States M McCann, H Silverstein Cause lawyering: Political commitments and professional responsibilities 261 …, 1998 | 147 | 1998 |
| Law and everyday forms of resistance: A socio-political assessment MW McCann, T March Stud. L. Pol. & Soc'y 15, 207, 1995 | 136 | 1995 |
| Legal mobilization and social reform movements: Notes on theory and its application MW McCann Law and social movements, 3-32, 2017 | 109 | 2017 |
| Java Jive: Genealogy of a Juridical Icon M McCann, W Haltom, A Bloom U. Miami L. Rev. 56, 113, 2001 | 89 | 2001 |
| How the Supreme Court matters in American politics: new institutionalist perspectives M McCann The supreme court in American politics 63, 63-76, 1999 | 82 | 1999 |
| The unbearable lightness of rights: On sociolegal inquiry in the global era M McCann Law & Society Review 48 (2), 245-273, 2014 | 80 | 2014 |
| On legal rights consciousness: A challenging analytical tradition M McCann, B Fleury-Steiner, LB Nielsen The new civil rights research: A constitutive approach, ix-xxx, 2006 | 68 | 2006 |
| Poder Judiciário e mobilização do direito: uma perspectiva dos “usuários” M McCANN Anais do Seminário Nacional sobre Justiça Constitucional, 175-196, 2010 | 66 | 2010 |
| Resistance, reconstruction, and romance in legal scholarship MW McCann Law & Society Review 26 (4), 733-749, 1992 | 48 | 1992 |
| Covering legal mobilization: A bottom‐up analysis of Wards Cove v. Atonio GI Lovell, M McCann, K Taylor Law & social inquiry 41 (1), 61-99, 2016 | 43 | 2016 |
| Retrenchment... and resurgence MW McCann, J Dudas Mapping the changing context of movement. See Sarat & Scheingold 2006, 37-59, 2006 | 41 | 2006 |
