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Cause lawyering : political commitments and professional responsibilities / edited by Austin Sarat & Stuart Scheingold.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford socio-legal studies.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford socio-legal studies
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cause lawyers.
- Law--Political aspects.
- Law.
- Sociological jurisprudence.
- Public interest law.
- Practice of law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (571 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The essays in this text represent a cross-national portrait of lawyers compelled to sacrifice financial gain so as to use their legal skills in the promotion of a more just society. The essays explore the relationship between cause lawyering and the organized legal professions of many countries.
- Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; 1. Cause Lawyering and the Reproduction of Professional Authority: An Introduction; I. Contexts and Conditions of Cause Lawyering; 2. The Causes of Cause Lawyering: Toward an Understanding of the Motivation and Commitment of Social Justice Lawyers; 3. Speaking Law to Power: Occasions for Cause Lawyering; 4. The Struggle to Politicize Legal Practice: A Case Study of Left-Activist Lawyering in Seattle; II. Cause Lawyering and the Organization of Practice; 5. Norris, Schmidt, Green, Harris, Higginbotham & Associates: The Sociolegal Import of Philadelphia Cause Lawyers
- 6. Still Trying: Cause Lawyering for the Poor and Disadvantaged in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania7. Critical Lawyers: Social Justice and the Structures of Private Practice; 8. Destruction of Houses and Construction of a Cause: Lawyers and Bedouins in the Israeli Courts; III. Strategies of Cause Lawyering under Liberal Legalism; 9. Rethinking Law's "Allurements": A Relational Analysis of Social Movement Lawyers in th
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1998.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 547-551) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-771858-2
- 1-60256-186-9
- 1-280-45378-8
- 1-4237-5967-2
- 0-19-535447-8
- 0-585-24778-1
- OCLC:
- 191038279
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