The worlds cause lawyers make : structure and agency in legal practice /

The worlds cause lawyers make : structure and agency in legal practice /

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Imprint:Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.
Description:x, 486 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Cause lawyers.
Public interest law.
Practice of law -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Practice of law -- Political aspects.
Cause lawyers.
Practice of law -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Practice of law -- Political aspects.
Public interest law.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5717212
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Other authors / contributors:Sarat, Austin.
Scheingold, Stuart A.
ISBN:0804752281 (cloth : alk. paper)
080475229X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Contributors
  • Introduction: The Dynamics of Cause Lawyering-Constraints and Opportunities
  • Section I. Causes and the Lawyers Who Serve Them: How Do Causes Make Their Lawyers and Lawyers Make Their Causes?
  • 1. Corporate Responsibility and the South African Drug Wars: Outline of a New Frontier for Cause Lawyers
  • 2. A Political-Professional Commitment? French Workers' and Unions' Lawyers as Cause Lawyers
  • 3. Professional Identity and Political Commitment among Lawyers for Conservative Causes
  • 4. Economic Libertarians, Property, and Institutions: Linking Activism, Ideas, and Identities among Property Rights Advocates
  • 5. From Cause Lawyering to Resistance: French Communist Lawyers in the Shadow of History (1929-1945)
  • Section II. Making a Practice: Balancing Professionalism and Activism
  • 6. Supporting a Cause, Developing a Movement, and Consolidating a Practice: Cause Lawyers and Sexual Orientation Litigation in Vermont
  • 7. Exploring the Sources of Cause and Career Correspondence among Cause Lawyers
  • 8. Dilemmas of "Progressive" Lawyering: Empowerment and Hierarchy
  • 9. Negotiating Cause Lawyering Potential in the Early Years of Corporate Practice
  • Section III. Strategy and Social Capital
  • 10. Cause Lawyers and Judicial Community in Israel: Legal Change in a Diffuse, Normative Community
  • 11. Transgressive Cause Lawyering in the Developing World: The Case of India
  • 12. Cause Lawyering for Collective Justice: A Case Study of the Amparo Colectivo in Argentina
  • 13. Asylum Law Practice in the United Kingdom after the Human Rights Act
  • 14. ATLA Shrugged: Why Personal Injury Lawyers Are Not Public Defenders of Their Own Causes
  • Afterword: In the End, or the Cause of Law

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