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Title Cause lawyering : political commitments and professional responsibilities / edited by Austin Sarat & Stuart Scheingold.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 560 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Oxford socio-legal studies
Oxford socio-legal studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 547-551) and index.
Contents Cause lawyering and the reproduction of professional authority: an introduction / Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold -- I. Contexts and conditions of cause lawyering -- 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 -- 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.
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Subject Cause lawyers.
Cause lawyers.
Law -- Political aspects.
Law -- Political aspects.
Sociological jurisprudence.
Sociological jurisprudence.
Public interest law.
Public interest law.
Practice of law.
Practice of law.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Law.
Added Author Sarat, Austin.
Scheingold, Stuart A.
Other Form: Print version: Cause lawyering. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998 0195113195 (DLC) 96040934 (OCoLC)35808317
ISBN 0585247781 (electronic book)
9780585247786 (electronic book)
1423759672 (electronic book)
9781423759676 (electronic book)
0195113195 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0195113209 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780195113204 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780195113198 (cloth ; alkaline paper)