Cause Lawyers And Social Movements

Author : Austin Sarat,Stuart A. Scheingold
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 080475361X

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Cause Lawyers and Social Movements by Austin Sarat,Stuart A. Scheingold Pdf

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?

Author : Scott L. Cummings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Cause lawyers
ISBN : 0197556620

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Lawyers and Social Movements by Scott L. Cummings Pdf

"This book explores the role of lawyers in social movements at a moment in which that role has taken center stage in American legal theory and practice. It is a comprehensive analysis of how lawyers mobilize law to advance movement goals and what impact they have within liberal democracy. The book's central contribution is to provide a new way of understanding and evaluating how lawyers support social movements in order to chart a different direction in research and reclaim a more positive professional role for lawyers in practice. It focuses on the tradition of law and social movements research and practice in the United States, but has implications for movement lawyering in the global arena. Ultimately, the book aims to decisively push away from foundational critiques of lawyers in social movements, developed a generation ago in dramatically different political conditions, which continue to powerfully shape academic debate and progressive legal practice. In their place, it offers a positive account, in which lawyers act as allies-and sometimes leaders-in struggles for transformative and enduring democratic change"--

Author : Austin Sarat,Stuart A. Scheingold
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Cause lawyers
ISBN : 9780195113204

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Cause Lawyering by Austin Sarat,Stuart A. Scheingold Pdf

Why do some lawyers devote themsevles to a specific social movement or political cause? What can we learn from such lawyers about the relationship between law and politics. CAUSE LAWYERING offers an insightful portrait of lawyers who sacrifice financial advantage in the name of a more just society. These telling essays show how cause lawyering is indispensable to the legitimization of professional authority.

Author : Michael McCann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1001 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351560733

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Law and Social Movements by Michael McCann Pdf

The work of both socio-legal scholars and specialists working in social movements research continues to contribute to our understanding of how law relates to and informs the politics of social movements. In the 1990s, an important line of new research, most of it initiated by those working in the law and society tradition, began to bridge the gaps between these two areas of scholarship. This work includes new approaches to group ?legal mobilization? politics; analysis of the judicial impact on social reform struggles; studies of individual legal mobilization in civil disputing and an almost entirely new area of research in ?cause lawyering?. It brings together the best of this research introduced by a detailed essay by the editor.

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 080475229X

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The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make by Austin Sarat Pdf

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.

Author : Whitney K. Taylor,Sidney Tarrow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781009493260

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Law, Mobilization, and Social Movements by Whitney K. Taylor,Sidney Tarrow Pdf

Legal and social movement scholars have long puzzled over the role of movements in moving, being moved by, and changing the meanings of the law. But for decades, these two strands of scholarship only dovetailed at their edges, in the work of a few far-seeing scholars. The fields began to more productively merge before and after the turn of the century. In this Element, the authors take an interactive approach to this problem and sketch four mechanisms that seem promising in effecting a true fusion: legal mobilization, legal-political opportunity structure, social construction, and movement-countermovement interaction. The Element also illustrates the workings and interactions of these four mechanisms from two examples of the authors' work: the campaign for same-sex marriage in the United States and social constitutionalism in South Africa.

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780857248268

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Special Issue: Social Movements/Legal Possibilities by Austin Sarat Pdf

Social movements provide the engine of legal change and law itself spurs social movement activity. This issue includes articles on social movements in several different nations, including France, South Africa and Canada, asking us to consider the way context is reflected in movement activities.

Author : Patricia G Steinhoff
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781929280834

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Going to Court to Change Japan by Patricia G Steinhoff Pdf

Examines the relationship between social movements and the law in bringing about social change in Japan

Author : Frank S. Bloch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780195381146

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The Global Clinical Movement by Frank S. Bloch Pdf

With chapters written by leading clinical legal educators from every region of the world, this book demonstrates how the expansion of clinical programs has spawned an emerging global movement that can advance social justice through legal education.

Author : Joel F. Handler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015031597217

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Social Movements and the Legal System by Joel F. Handler Pdf

Author : Stuart A. Scheingold
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472025534

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The Politics of Rights by Stuart A. Scheingold Pdf

Stuart A. Scheingold's landmark work introduced a new understanding of the contribution of rights to progressive social movements, and thirty years later it still stands as a pioneering and provocative work, bridging political science and sociolegal studies. In the preface to this new edition, the author provides a cogent analysis of the burgeoning scholarship that has been built on the foundations laid in his original volume. A new foreword from Malcolm Feeley of Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law traces the intellectual roots of The Politics of Rights to the classic texts of social theory and sociolegal studies. "Scheingold presents a clear, thoughtful discussion of the ways in which rights can both empower and constrain those seeking change in American society. While much of the writing on rights is abstract and obscure, The Politics of Rights stands out as an accessible and engaging discussion." -Gerald N. Rosenberg, University of Chicago "This book has already exerted an enormous influence on two generations of scholars. It has had an enormous influence on political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists, as well as historians and legal scholars. With this new edition, this influence is likely to continue for still more generations. The Politics of Rights has, I believe, become an American classic." -Malcolm Feeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, from the foreword Stuart A. Scheingold is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Washington.

Author : Alan K. Chen,Scott Cummings
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Page : 915 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781454818885

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Public Interest Lawyering by Alan K. Chen,Scott Cummings Pdf

Public Interest Lawyering is the first comprehensive analysis of public interest lawyering that is suitable as a law school elective text and/or advanced legal profession courses and seminars. Drawing upon a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this timely textbook examines the lives of public interest lawyers, the clients and causes they serve, the contexts within which they work, the strategies they deploy, and the challenges they face today. Features: The first comprehensive overview of the broad range of contemporary issues faced by public interest lawyers in any American law school text. Thorough discussion of important theoretical issues about the scope and definition of public interest lawyering. Addresses American public interest law from a historical perspective with focus on current issues. Expansive examination of the settings in which public interest practice occurs, including nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and private law firms. Presents the advantages and limits of different legal strategies in public interest practice, including lobbying, public education, community organizing, and community economic development. Addresses contemporary challenges of public interest law in context, including economics and financing, legal ethics, the role of legal education, and the globalization of public interest practice. Discusses critiques of public interest law, including a reflection about the role of lawyers in social movements that addresses contemporary critiques. Ethical obligations of public interest lawyers. Explores special issues related to lawyer-client relations in social change contexts. Extensive coverage of: Models of law reform organizations. Conservative cause lawyering. Government lawyers. The economics of social change lawyering. Global social change lawyering.

Author : Austin Sarat,Stuart Scheingold
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198032373

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Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era by Austin Sarat,Stuart Scheingold Pdf

This volume brings together contextually sensitive, cross-cultural, and comparative research that analyzes the ways in which cause lawyering is influencing, and being influenced by, the disaggregation of state power associated with democratization and globalization.

Author : Scott L. Cummings
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Cause lawyers
ISBN : 0197556604

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Lawyers and Social Movements by Scott L. Cummings Pdf

"This book explores the role of lawyers in social movements at a moment in which that role has taken center stage in American legal theory and practice. It is a comprehensive analysis of how lawyers mobilize law to advance movement goals and what impact they have within liberal democracy. The book's central contribution is to provide a new way of understanding and evaluating how lawyers support social movements in order to chart a different direction in research and reclaim a more positive professional role for lawyers in practice. It focuses on the tradition of law and social movements research and practice in the United States, but has implications for movement lawyering in the global arena. Ultimately, the book aims to decisively push away from foundational critiques of lawyers in social movements, developed a generation ago in dramatically different political conditions, which continue to powerfully shape academic debate and progressive legal practice. In their place, it offers a positive account, in which lawyers act as allies-and sometimes leaders-in struggles for transformative and enduring democratic change"--

Author : Ann Southworth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226768366

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Lawyers of the Right by Ann Southworth Pdf

A timely and multifaceted portrait of the lawyers who serve the diverse constituencies of the conservative movement, Lawyers of the Right explains what unites and divides lawyers for the three major groups—social conservatives, libertarians, and business advocates—that have coalesced in recent decades behind the Republican Party. Drawing on in-depth interviews with more than seventy lawyers who represent conservative and libertarian nonprofit organizations, Ann Southworth explores their values and identities and traces the implications of their shared interest in promoting political strategies that give lawyers leading roles. She goes on to illuminate the function of mediator organizations—such as the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy—that have succeeded in promoting cooperation among different factions of conservative lawyers. Such cooperation, she finds, has aided efforts to drive law and the legal profession politically rightward and to give lawyers greater prominence in the conservative movement. Southworth concludes, though, that tensions between the conservative law movement’s elite and populist elements may ultimately lead to its undoing.