Cause lawyers and social movements / edited by Austin Sarat and 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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.) : 2 tables

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford Law and Politics, 2006.

Language Note:

In English.

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. 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?

Contents:

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

The profession, the grassroots & 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 Bilder Coutin

Consumer cause lawyering 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.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8047-6796-3