Review (PDF) Cause Lawyers And Social Movements (Stanford Law Books)
Cause Lawyers and Social Movements seeks to reorient scholarship on cause lawyers, inviting scholars to think about cause lawyering from the perspective of those political activists with whom cause lawyers work and whom they seek to serve. It demonstrates that while all cause lawyering cuts against the grain of conventional understandings of legal practice and professionalism, social movement lawyering poses distinctively thorny problems.The editors and authors of this volume explore the following questions: What do cause lawyers do for, and to, social movements? How, when, and why do social movements turn to and use lawyers and legal strategies? Does their use of lawyers and legal strategies advance or constrain the achievement of their goals? And, how do movements shape the lawyers who serve them and how do lawyers shape the movements?
Series: Stanford Law Books
Paperback: 360 pages
Publisher: Stanford Law and Politics; 1 edition (June 5, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 080475361X
ISBN-13: 978-0804753616
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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Once upon a time in the seventies, social justice movements 'found' lawyers. Nowadays, lawyers are more likely to need to go out and find those movements. This pithy history of the pivotal role lawyers have played in advancing progressive causes offers a timely reminder to todays' bar school grads to stretch their vision of what the law can do. More than a medium for corporations seeking their profitable edge, the values enshrined in the legal system are the very lifeblood of civic cohesion. While Sarat & Scheingold's tone can verge on the dry, the wealth of case studies here form a living history capable of inspiring good works.
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