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Cause lawyering : political commitments and professional responsibilities

Author: Austin Sarat; Stuart A Scheingold
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Series: Oxford socio-legal studies.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Austin Sarat; Stuart A Scheingold
ISBN: 0195113195 9780195113198 0195113209 9780195113204
OCLC Number: 35808317
Description: viii, 560 p. ; 24 cm.
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
Series Title: Oxford socio-legal studies.
Responsibility: edited by Austin Sarat & Stuart Scheingold.
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