The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make : Structure and Agency in Legal Practice / ed. by Austin Sarat, Stuart Scheingold.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barclay, Scott, Contributor.

Fitzpatrick, Peter, Contributor.

Haltom, William, Contributor.

Hatcher, Laura, Contributor.

Israël, Liora, Contributor.

Jones, Lynn C., Contributor.

Krishnan, Jayanth K., Contributor.

Maiman, Richard J., Contributor.

Marshall, Anna-Maria, Contributor.

Mccann, Michael, Contributor.

Meili, Stephen, Contributor.

Sarat, Austin, Contributor.

Sarat, Austin, Editor.

Scheingold, Stuart, Contributor.

Scheingold, Stuart, Editor.

Shamir, Ronen, Contributor.

Shdaimah, Corey S., Contributor.

Southworth, Ann, Contributor.

Thomson, Douglas, Contributor.

Willemez, Laurent, Contributor.

Woods, Patricia J., Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 p.) : 6 tables, 2 figures

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The study of cause lawyering has grown dramatically and is now an important field of research in socio-legal studies and in research on the legal profession. The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make: Structure and Agency in Legal Practice adds to that growing body of research by examining the connections between lawyers and causes, the settings in which cause lawyers practice, and the ways they marshal social capital and make strategic decisions. The book describes the constraints to cause lawyering and the particulars that shape what cause lawyers do and what cause lawyering can be, while also focusing on the dynamic interactions of cause lawyers and the legal, professional, and political contexts in which they operate. It presents a constructivist view of cause lawyering, analyzing what cause lawyers do in their day-to-day work, how they do it, and what difference their work makes. Taken together, the essays collected in this volume show how cause lawyers construct their legal and professional contexts and also how those contexts constrain their professional lives.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Contributors

Introduction: The Dynamics of Cause Lawyering

Section I. Causes and the Lawyers Who Serve Them

1. Corporate Responsibility and the South African Drug Wars

2. A Political-Professional Commitment?

3. Professional Identity and Political Commitment among Lawyers for Conservative Causes

4. Economic Libertarians, Property, and Institutions

5. From Cause Lawyering to Resistance

Section II: Making a Practice

6. Supporting a Cause, Developing a Movement, and Consolidating a Practice

7. Exploring the Sources of Cause and Career Correspondence among Cause Lawyers

8. Dilemmas of"Progressive" Lawyering

9. Negotiating Cause Lawyering Potential in the Early Years of Corporate Practice

Section III. Strategy and Social Capital

10. Cause Lawyers and Judicial Community in Israel

11. Transgressive Cause Lawyering in the Developing World

12. Cause Lawyering for Collective Justice

13. Asylum Law Practice in the United Kingdom after the Human Rights Act

14. ATLA Shrugged

Afterword: In the End, or the Cause of Law

Index

Notes:

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

ISBN:

1-5036-2544-3

OCLC:

1294423169