The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make: Structure and Agency in Legal Practice

Author:   Austin Sarat ,  Stuart Scheingold
Publisher:   Stanford University Press
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Pages:   504
Publication Date:   12 July 2005
Format:   Hardback
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The study of cause lawyering has grown dramatically and is now an important field of research in socio-legal studies and in research on the legal profession. The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make: Structure and Agency in Legal Practice adds to that growing body of research by examining the connections between lawyers and causes, the settings in which cause lawyers practice, and the ways they marshal social capital and make strategic decisions. The book describes the constraints to cause lawyering and the particulars that shape what cause lawyers do and what cause lawyering can be while also focusing on the dynamic interactions of cause lawyers and the legal, professional, and political contexts in which they operate. It presents a constructivist view of cause lawyering, analyzing what cause lawyers do in their day-to-day work, how they do it, and what difference their work makes. Taken together, the essays collected in this volume show how cause lawyers construct their legal and professional contexts and also how those contexts constrain their professional lives.

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Author:   Austin Sarat ,  Stuart Scheingold
Publisher:   Stanford University Press
Imprint:   Stanford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.789kg
ISBN:  

9780804752282


ISBN 10:   0804752281
Pages:   504
Publication Date:   12 July 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents Contributors Introduction: The Dynamics of Cause Lawyering: Constraints and Opportunities 1 Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold 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: New Frontier for Cause Lawyers 37 Ronen Shamir 2. A Political-Professional Commitment? French Workers' and Unions' Lawyers as Cause Lawyers 000 Laurent Willemez 3. Professional Identities and Political Commitment among Lawyers for Conservative Causes 000 Ann Southworth 4. Economic Libertarians, Property, and Institutions: Linking Activism, Ideas, and Identities among Property Rights Advocates 000 Laura Hatcher 5. From Cause Lawyering to Resistance: French Communist Lawyers in the Shadow of History (1929-1945) 000 Liora Israel 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 000 Scott Barclay and Anna-Maria Marshall 7. Exploring the Sources of Cause and Career Correspondence among Cause Lawyers 000 Lynn C. Jones 8. Dilemmas of Progressive Lawyering: Empowerment and Hierarchy 000 Corey S. Shdaimah 9. Negotiating Cause Lawyering Potential in the Early Years of Corporate Practice 000 Douglas Thomson Section III. Strategy and Social Capital 10. Cause Lawyers and Judicial Community in Israel: Legal Change in a Diffuse, Normative Community 000 Patricia J. Woods 11. Transgressive Cause Lawyering in the Developing World: The Case of India 000 Jayanth K. Krishnan 12. Cause Lawyering for Collective Justice: A Case Study of the Amparo Colectivo in Argentine 000 Stephen Meili 13. Asylum Law Practice in the United Kingdom after the Human Rights Act 000 Richard J. Maiman 14. ATLA Shrugged: Why Personal Injury Lawyers Are Not Public Defenders of Their Own Causes 000 Michael McCann and William Haltom AFTERWORD: In the End, or the Cause of Law 000 Peter Fitzpatrick Index

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0;Yet again, Sarat and Scheingold advance the cause of cause lawyering as surely the most successful collective project on the legal profession. This volume of illuminating case studies from across the world will inspire a new generation of morally and politically committed lawyers to recognize their prospects of bringing justice to an unjust world.1; 2;Terence C. Halliday, Northwestern University and Research Fellow for the American Bar Foundation


Yet again, Sarat and Scheingold advance the cause of cause lawyering as surely the most successful collective project on the legal profession. This volume of illuminating case studies from across the world will inspire a new generation of morally and politically committed lawyers to recognize their prospects of bringing justice to an unjust world. --Terence C. Halliday, Northwestern University and Research Fellow for the American Bar Foundation The research Sarat and Scheingold present here substantially transforms our understanding of cause lawyering and the legal profession and makes an important contribution to the field. The essays in this volume represent a wide variety of cause lawyering settings, in terms of political orientation, nationality, and structure of practice. --Richard Abel, UCLA School of Law


The research Sarat and Scheingold present here substantially transforms our understanding of cause lawyering and the legal profession and makes an important contribution to the field. The essays in this volume represent a wide variety of cause lawyering settings, in terms of political orientation, nationality, and structure of practice. -Richard Abel, UCLA School of Law Yet again, Sarat and Scheingold advance the cause of cause lawyering as surely the most successful collective project on the legal profession. This volume of illuminating case studies from across the world will inspire a new generation of morally and politically committed lawyers to recognize their prospects of bringing justice to an unjust world. -Terence C. Halliday, Northwestern University and Research Fellow for the American Bar Foundation


Author Information

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. Stuart Scheingold is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Washington, Together, Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold are the authors of Something to Believe In: Politics, Professionalism, and Cause Lawyering (Stanford University Press, 2004). They were granted the National Equal Justice Library's 2004 Reginald Heber Smith Award in recognition of their work on cause lawyering.

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