The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make -

The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make

Structure and Agency in Legal Practice
Buch | Softcover
504 Seiten
2005
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8047-5229-9 (ISBN)
43,65 inkl. MwSt
The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make examines 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 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.

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. Stuart Scheingold is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Washington. Together, Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold are the authors of Something to Believe In: Politics, Professionalism, and Cause Lawyering (Stanford University Press, 2004) and the editors ofCause Lawyering: Political Commitments and Professional Responsibilities (1998) and Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era (2001). Theywere granted the National Equal Justice Library's 2004 Reginald Heber SmithAwardin recognition oftheir work on cause lawyering.

Contents Contributors Introduction: The Dynamics of Cause Lawyering: Constraints and Opportunities1 Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold Section I: Causes and the Lawyers Who Serve Them: How Do Causes Make Their Lawyers and Lawyers Make Their Causes 1.Corporate Responsibility and the South African Drug Wars: New Frontier for Cause Lawyers37 Ronen Shamir 2.A Political-Professional Commitment? French Workers' and Unions' Lawyers as Cause Lawyers000 Laurent Willemez 3.Professional Identities and Political Commitment among Lawyers for Conservative Causes000 Ann Southworth 4.Economic Libertarians, Property, and Institutions: Linking Activism, Ideas, and Identities among Property Rights Advocates000 Laura Hatcher 5.From Cause Lawyering to Resistance: French Communist Lawyers in the Shadow of History (1929-1945)000 Liora Israel Section II: Making a Practice: Balancing Professionalism and Activism 6.Supporting a Cause, Developing a Movement, and Consolidating a Practice: Cause Lawyers and Sexual Orientation Litigation in Vermont000 Scott Barclay and Anna-Maria Marshall 7.Exploring the Sources of Cause and Career Correspondence among Cause Lawyers000 Lynn C. Jones 8.Dilemmas of "Progressive" Lawyering: Empowerment and Hierarchy000 Corey S. Shdaimah 9.Negotiating Cause Lawyering Potential in the Early Years of Corporate Practice 000 Douglas Thomson Section III. Strategy and Social Capital 10.Cause Lawyers and Judicial Community in Israel: Legal Change in a Diffuse, Normative Community000 Patricia J. Woods 11.Transgressive Cause Lawyering in the Developing World: The Case of India 000 Jayanth K. Krishnan 12.Cause Lawyering for Collective Justice: A Case Study of the Amparo Colectivo in Argentine000 Stephen Meili 13.Asylum Law Practice in the United Kingdom after the Human Rights Act 000 Richard J. Maiman 14.ATLA Shrugged: Why Personal Injury Lawyers Are Not Public Defenders of Their Own Causes000 Michael McCann and William Haltom AFTERWORD: In the End, or the Cause of Law000 Peter Fitzpatrick Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 12.7.2005
Zusatzinfo 6 tables, 2 figures
Verlagsort Palo Alto
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 667 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
ISBN-10 0-8047-5229-X / 080475229X
ISBN-13 978-0-8047-5229-9 / 9780804752299
Zustand Neuware
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