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Cause Lawyers and Social Movements
Austin Sarat
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Description for Cause Lawyers and Social Movements
Paperback. This volume 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. Editor(s): Sarat, Austin; Scheingold, Stuart A. Num Pages: 360 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: LAQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
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? ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804753616
SKU
V9780804753616
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About Austin Sarat
Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor at Amherst College. Stuart A. Scheingold is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Washington. Together, Sarat and Scheingold are the authors of Something to Believe In: Politics, Professionalism, and Cause Lawyering (Stanford University Press, 2004).
Reviews for Cause Lawyers and Social Movements
"This work examines the unique position of lawyers committed both to profession and to cause. The wide variety of social movements described in the book offers a natural setting for asking how politically committed collective clients shape the lawyer's role and the tension this poses for professional responsibility."—Richard Abel, UCLA School of Law "Cause Lawyers and Social Movements presents a ... Read more