Cause Lawyers and Social Movements - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804753601 ISBN 13: 9780804753609

Publisher: Stanford Law and Politics, 2006

Synopsis

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?

About this title

From the Back Cover:

“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 rich range of case studies of the interaction between lawyering and social movement.”—Lucie White, Harvard Law School

About the Author:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Stanford Law and Politics
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0804753601
• ISBN 13: 9780804753609
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Sarat Austin, Scheingold Stuart A.