Cause lawyers and social movements / edited by Austin Sarat, Stuart A. Scheingold.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarat, Austin.

Scheingold, Stuart A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cause lawyers--United States.

Cause lawyers.

Social movements--United States.

Social movements.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 341 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Law and Politics, 2006.

Summary:

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. Instead of coming to the study of cause lawyering with a set of questions defined by scholarship on the legal profession, this volume locates cause lawyering in the context of research on social movements. 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-taking most lawyers out of their confort zones.

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 the lawyers shape movements?

Contents:

Retrenchment

and resurgence? mapping the changing context of movement lawyering in the United States / Michael McCann and Jeffrey Dudas

The profession, the grassroots and the elite: cause lawyering for civil rights and freedom in the direct action era / Thomas Hilbink

Cause lawyers in the first wave of same sex marriage litigation / Scott Barclay and Shauna Fisher

Cause lawyering and political advocacy: moving law on behalf of Central American refugees / Susan Bibler Coutin

Consumer cause lawyers in the United States: lawyers for the movement or a movement unto themselves? / Stephen Meili

To lead with law: reassessing the influence of legal advocacy organizations in social movements / Sandra R. Levitsky

Social movement strategies and the participatory potential of litigation / Anna-Maria Marshall

The haves come out ahead: how cause lawyers frame the legal system for movements / Lynn Jones

In legal culture, but not of it: the role of cause lawyers in evangelical legal mobilization / Kevin R. den Dulk

Intersecting identities: cause lawyers as legal professionals and social movement actors / Corey S. Shdaimah

The movement takes the lead: the role of lawyers in the struggle for a living wage in Santa Monica, California / Kathleen M. Erskine and Judy Marblestone

A movement in the wake of a new law: the United Farm Workers and the California Agricultural Relations Act / Jennifer Gordon

Mobilization lawyering: community economic development in the Figueroa Corridor / Scott L. Cummings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0804753601

080475361X

OCLC:

62679840

Publisher Number:

9780804753616