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

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The cultural lives of cause lawyers / edited by Austin Sarat, Stuart Scheingold.
Publication
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Sarat, Austin
  • Scheingold, Stuart A.
Description
xiii, 400 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Compares media representation of cause lawyers in the United States, United Kingdom, and Latin America.
Subject
  • Cause lawyers > United States
  • Cause lawyers > United States > Public opinion
  • Public interest law > United States
  • Culture and law
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Part I. The Cultural Work of Cause Lawyers: 1. No sacrifice is too great for the cause!: cause(less) lawyering and the legal trials and tribulations of Gone with the Wind -- 2. Purpose driven lawyers: evangelical cause lawyering and the culture war -- 3. Cause lawyers and cracker culture at the constructive edge: a band of brothers defeats big tobacco -- Part II. The Cultural Construction of Lawyers and Their Causes: 4. They all have different policies, so of course they have to give different news: images of human rights lawyers in the British press -- 5. Ed Fagan and the ethics of causes: who stole identity politics? -- 6. Of windmills and wetlands: the press and the romance of property rights -- 7. The kids are alright: cause lawyering on television in 1960s America -- 8. Nothing to believe in: lawyers in contemporary films about public interest litigation -- 9. Of course he just stood there; he's the law: two depictions of cause lawyers in post-authoritarian Chile -- 10. Paulina Escobar as cause lawyer: litigating human rights in the shadows of Death and the Maiden -- Part III. The Cultural Reception of Lawyers and Their Causes: 11. Cause lawyering ˜English style": reading Rumpole of the Bailey -- 12. Now you see it, now you don't: cause lawyering, popular culture, and a civil action -- 13. Not what they expected: legal services lawyers in the eyes of legal services clients.
ISBN
  • 9780521884488 (hardback)
  • 9780521711357 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2007037904
OCLC
  • 172521766
  • SCSB-10382960
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library