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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Austin Sarat; Stuart A Scheingold |
| ISBN: | 0195141164 9780195141160 0195141172 9780195141177 |
| OCLC Number: | 43798574 |
| Description: | xi, 417 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | State transformation, globalization, and the possibilities of cause lawyering: an introduction / Austin Sarat and Stuart A. Scheingold -- 2. Two worlds of ghanaian cause lawyer / Lucie White -- 3. From the fight for legal rights to the promotion of human rights: Israeli and palestinian cause lawyers in the trenches of globalization / Lisa Hajjar -- 4. Taking on goliath: why personal injury litigation may represent the future of transnational cause lawyering / Anne Bloom -- 5. Cause lawyering in the shadow of the state: a U.S. immigration example / Susan Bibler coutin -- 6. Cause lawyers in a cold climate: the impact(s) of globalization on the United Kingdom / Andrew Boon -- 7. State transformation and the struggle for symbolic capital: cause lawyers, the organized bar, and capital punishment in the United States / Austin Sarat -- 8. Cause lawyers, clients, and the state: congress as a forum for cause lawyering during the enactment of the Americans with disabilities act / Neta Ziv -- 9. The global language of human rights: patterns of cooperation between state and civil rights lawyers in Israel / Yoav Dotan -- 10. Legal advocacy, global engagement: the impact of land claims advocacy on the recognition of property rights in the South African constitution / Heinz Klug -- 11. State-oriented and community-oriented lawyering for a cause: a tale of two strategies / Ronen Shamir and Neta Ziv -- 12. Latin American cause-lawyering networks / Stephen Meili -- 13. The politics of imported rights: transplantation and transformation in an Israeli environmental cause-lawyering organization / Noga Morag-Levine -- 14. Constructing law out of power: investing in human rights as an alternative political strategy / Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth -- 15. Cause lawyering and democracy in transnational perspective: a postscript / Stuart A. Scheingold |
| Series Title: | Oxford socio-legal studies. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Austin Sarat & Stuart Scheingold. |
Abstract:
This volume brings together contextually sensitive, cross-cultural, and comparative research that analyzes the ways in which cause lawyering is influencing, and being influenced by, the disaggregation of state power associated with democratization and globalization.
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