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Title

Cause lawyering : political commitments and professional responsibilities / edited by Austin Sarat & Stuart Scheingold.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sarat, Austin
• Scheingold, Stuart A.

Description

viii, 560 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Why do some lawyers devote themselves to a given social movement or political cause? How are such commitments justified, given the ideals of disinterested professional service to which lawyers are (in theory, at least) supposed to adhere? What can we learn from such lawyers about the relationship between law and politics? Cause Lawyering is a varied and provocative collection of responses to these questions, featuring the work of several distinguished legal scholars. These essays explore the relationship between cause lawyering and the organized legal professions of many different countries: Brazil, England, Indonesia, Israel, South Africa, and the U.S., among others. They describe the utility of law as a resource in political struggles and, conversely, highlight the constraints under which lawyers operate when they turn to politics. Some provide broad theoretical overviews, others present rich case studies, and all will appeal to students and professionals interested in law and society."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Oxford socio-legal studies

Uniform Title

Oxford socio-legal studies.

Subject

• Law > Political aspects
• Sociological jurisprudence
• Public interest law
• Practice of law
• Cause lawyers

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 547-551) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Cause Lawyering and the Reproduction of Professional Authority: An Introduction / Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold -- I. CONTEXTS AND CONDITIONS OF CAUSE LAWYERING -- The Causes of Cause Lawyering: Toward an Understanding of the Motivation and Commitment of Social Justice Lawyers / Carrie Menkel-Meadow -- Speaking Law to Power: Occasions for Cause Lawyering / Richard Abel -- The Struggle to Politicize Legal Practice: A Case Study of Left-Activist Lawyering in Seattle / Stuart Scheingold -- II. CAUSE LAWYERING AND THE ORGANIZATION OF PRACTICE -- Norris, Schmidt, Green, Harris, Higginbotham & Associates: The Socio-Legal Impact of Philadelphia Cause Lawyers / Aaron Porter -- Still Trying: Cause Lawyering for the Poor and Disadvantaged in Pittsburg, PA / John Kilwein -- Critical Lawyers: Social Justice and the Structure of Private Practice / Louise Trubek and M. Elizabeth Kransberger --^
• Destruction of Houses and Construction of a Cause: Lawyers and Bedouins in the Israeli Courts / Ronen Shamir and Sara Chinski -- III. STRATEGIES OF CAUSE LAWYERING UNDER LIBERAL LEGALISM -- Rethinking Law's Allurements: A Relational Analysis of Social Movement Lawyers in the United States / Michael McCann and Helena Silverstein -- Caring about Individual Cases: Immigration Lawyering in Britain / Susan Street -- Between (the Presence of) Violence and (the Possibility of) Justice: Lawyering against Capital Punishment / Austin Sarat -- IV. THE POSSIBILITIES OF CAUSE LAWYERING BEYOND LIBERAL LEGALISM -- Cause Lawyering in the Third World / Stephen Ellmann -- Lawyers' Causes in Indonesia and Malaysia / Daniel Lev Attorneys for the People -- Attorneys for the Land: The Emergence of Cause Lawyering in the Israel-Occupied Territories / George Bisharat -- Cause Lawyers and Social Movements: A Comparative Perspective on Democratic Change in Argentina and Brazil / Stephen Meili --^
• All or Nothing: An Inquiry into the (Im)Possibility of Cause Lawyering under Cuban Socialism / Raymond Michalowski.

ISBN

• 0195113195 (cl. : alk. paper)
• 0195113209 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96040934^

OCLC

• 35808317
• SCSB-10471587

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library