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The cultural lives of cause lawyers

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The cultural lives of cause lawyers / edited by Austin Sarat, Stuart Scheingold.

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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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xiii, 400 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Bringing cultural analysis to the study of cause lawyers / Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold -- 'No sacrifice is too great for the cause!' : cause(less) lawyering and the legal trials and tribulations of Gone with the wind / William P. MacNeil -- Purpose-driven lawyers : evangelical cause lawyering and the culture war / Kevin R. den Dulk -- Cause lawyers and Cracker culture at the constructive edge : a 'band of brothers' defeats Big Tobacco / Tim Howard -- 'They all have different policies, so of course they have to give different news' : images of human rights lawyers in the British press / Richard J. Maiman -- Ed Fagan and the ethics of causes : who stole identity politics? / Valerie Karno -- Of windmills and wetlands : the press and the romance of property rights / Laura J. Hatcher -- 'The kids are alright' : cause lawyering on television in 1960s America / Thomas M. Hilbink -- Nothing to believe in : lawyers in contemporary films about public interest litigation / Michael McCann and William Haltom -- 'Of course he just stood there; he's the law': two depictions of cause lawyers in post-authoritarian Chile / Stephen Meili -- Paulina Escobar as cause lawyer : 'litigating' human rights in the shadows of Death and the maiden / Ben Fleury-Steiner and Aaron Fichtelberg -- Cause lawyering 'English style' : reading Rumpole of the Bailey / Leslie J. Moran -- Now you see it, now you don't : cause lawyering, popular culture, and A civil action / Stuart A. Scheingold -- Not what they expected : legal services lawyers in the eyes of legal services clients / Corey S. Shdaimah.

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