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1 online resource (xiii, 400 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This book examines the cultural lives of cause lawyers by focusing on their representation in various popular media. |
| Contents |
Bringing cultural analysis to the study of cause lawyers / Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold -- 'No sacrifice is too great for the cause!' : cause(less) lawyering and the legal trials and tribulations of Gone with the wind / William P. MacNeil -- Purpose-driven lawyers : evangelical cause lawyering and the culture war / Kevin R. den Dulk -- Cause lawyers and Cracker culture at the constructive edge : a 'band of brothers' defeats Big Tobacco / Tim Howard -- 'They all have different policies, so of course they have to give different news' : images of human rights lawyers in the British press / Richard J. Maiman -- Ed Fagan and the ethics of causes : who stole identity politics? / Valerie Karno -- Of windmills and wetlands : the press and the romance of property rights / Laura J. Hatcher -- 'The kids are alright' : cause lawyering on television in 1960s America / Thomas M. Hilbink -- Nothing to believe in : lawyers in contemporary films about public interest litigation / Michael McCann and William Haltom -- 'Of course he just stood there; he's the law': two depictions of cause lawyers in post-authoritarian Chile / Stephen Meili -- Paulina Escobar as cause lawyer : 'litigating' human rights in the shadows of Death and the maiden / Ben Fleury-Steiner and Aaron Fichtelberg -- Cause lawyering 'English style' : reading Rumpole of the Bailey / Leslie J. Moran -- Now you see it, now you don't : cause lawyering, popular culture, and A civil action / Stuart A. Scheingold -- Not what they expected : legal services lawyers in the eyes of legal services clients / Corey S. Shdaimah. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cause lawyers -- United States.
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Cause lawyers. |
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United States. |
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Cause lawyers -- United States -- Public opinion.
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Public opinion. |
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Public interest law -- United States.
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Public interest law. |
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Culture and law.
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Culture and law. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Sarat, Austin.
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Scheingold, Stuart A.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cultural lives of cause lawyers. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 9780521884488 0521884489 (DLC) 2007037904 (OCoLC)172521766 |
| ISBN |
9780511388385 (electronic book) |
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0511388381 (electronic book) |
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0511387393 (electronic book) |
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9780511387395 (electronic book) |
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9780511619786 (ebook) |
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0511619782 (ebook) |
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1281255084 |
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9781281255082 |
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0521884489 (Cloth) |
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0521711355 (Paper) |
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9780521884488 (hardback) |
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9780521711357 (paperback) |
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