Why do some lawyers devote themsevles to a specific social movement or political cause? What can we learn from such lawyers about the relationship between law and politics. CAUSE LAWYERING offers an insightful portrait of lawyers who sacrifice financial advantage in the name of a more just society. These telling essays show how cause lawyering is indispensable to the legitimization of professional authority.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Cause Lawyering and the Reproduction of Professional Authority: An Introduction
- CONTEXTS AND CONDITIONS OF CAUSE LAWYERING
- The Causes of Cause Lawyering: Toward an Understanding of the Motivation and Commitment of Social Justice Lawyers
- Speaking Law to Power: Occasions for Cause Lawyering
- The Struggle to Politicize Legal Practice: A Case Study of Left-Activist Lawyering in Seattle
- CAUSE LAWYERING AND THE ORGANIZATION OF PRACTICE
- Norris, Schmidt, Green, Harris, Higginbotham and Associates: The Socio-Legal Impact of Philadelphia Cause Lawyers
- Still Trying: Cause Lawyering for the Poor and Disadvantaged in Pittsburg, PA
- Critical Lawyers: Social Justice and the Structure of Private Practice
- Destruction of Houses and Construction of a Cause: Lawyers and Bedouins in the Israeli Courts
- STRATEGIES OF CAUSE LAWYERING UNDER LIBERAL LEGALISM
- Rethinking Law's Allurements: A Relational Analysis of Social Movement Lawyers in the United States
- Caring about Individual Cases: Immigration Lawyering in Britain
- Between (the Presence of) Violence and (the Possibility of) Justice: Lawyering against Capital Punishment
- THE POSSIBILITIES OF CAUSE LAWYERING BEYOND LIBERAL LEGALISM
- Cause Lawyering in the Third World
- Lawyers' Causes in Indonesia and Malaysia
- Attorneys for the People, Attorneys for the Land: The Emergence of Cause Lawyering in the Israel-Occupied Territories
- Cause Lawyers and Social Movements: A Comparative Perspective on Democratic Change in Argentina and Brazil
- All or Nothing: An Inquiry into the (Im)Possibility of Cause Lawyering under Cuban Socialism
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