Cause lawyering and the state in a global era / edited by Austin Sarat & Stuart Scheingold.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarat, Austin.

Scheingold, Stuart A.

Series:

Oxford socio-legal studies.

Oxford socio-legal studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cause lawyers.

Public interest law.

Nation-state.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

xi, 417 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

Sarat and Scheingold's book, Cause Lawyering, the first volume of its kind, coined the term for law as practiced by the politically motivated and those devoted to moral activism. The new collection examines cause lawyering in the global context, exploring the ways in which it is influencing and being influenced by the disaggregation of state power associated with democratization, and how democratization empowers lawyers who want to effect change. New configurations of state power create opportunities for altering the political and social status quo. Cause lawyers are developing transnational networks to exploit these global opportunities, and to help strengthen international norms on issues such as human rights. The fifteen essays will focus on different national settings including South Africa, Israel, the U.K. and Latin America.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Contributors

1. State Transformation, Globalization, and the Possibilities of Cause Lawyering: An Introduction

I. Global Developments/Local Contests: New Opportunities/New Challenges

2. Two Worlds of Ghanaian Cause Lawyers

3. From the Fight for Legal Rights to the Promotion of Human Rights: Israeli and Palestinian Cause Lawyers in the Trenches of Globalization

4. Taking on Goliath: Why Personal Injury Litigation May Represent the Future of Transnational Cause Lawyering

5. Cause Lawyering in the Shadow of the State: A U.S. Immigration Example

II. Globalization and State Transformation: Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation between Cause Lawyers and the State

6. Cause Lawyers in a Cold Climate: The Impact(s) of Globalization on the United Kingdom

7. State Transformation and the Struggle for Symbolic Capital: Cause Lawyers, the Organized Bar, and Capital Punishment in the United States

8. Cause Lawyers, Clients, and the State: Congress as a Forum for Cause Lawyering during the Enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act

9. The Global Language of Human Rights: Patterns of Cooperation between State and Civil Rights Lawyers in Israel

10. Legal Advocacy, Global Engagement: The Impact of Land Claims Advocacy on the Recognition of Property Rights in the South African Constitution

11. State-Oriented and Community-Oriented Lawyering for a Cause: A Tale of Two Strategies

III. The Globalization of Cause Lawyering

12. Latin American Cause-Lawyering Networks

13. The Politics of Imported Rights: Transplantation and Transformation in an Israeli Environmental Cause-Lawyering Organization

14. Constructing Law Out of Power: Investing in Human Rights as an Alternative Political Strategy

15. Cause Lawyering and Democracy in Transnational Perspective: A Postcript

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780199871391

9780195141177

9780198032373

0198032374

OCLC:

133160316