Lawyering An Uncertain Cause

Author : Michele Statz
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780826502995

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Lawyering an Uncertain Cause by Michele Statz Pdf

Each year, a number of youth who migrate alone and clandestinely from China to the United States are apprehended, placed in removal proceedings, and designated as unaccompanied minors. These young migrants represent only a fraction of all unaccompanied minors in the US, yet they are in many ways depicted as a preeminent professional and moral cause by immigration advocates. In and beyond the legal realm, the figure of the "vulnerable Chinese child" powerfully legitimates legal claims and attorneys' efforts. At the same time, the transnational ambitions and obligations of Chinese youth implicitly unsettle this figure. The maneuvers of these youth not only belie attorneys' reliance on racialized discourses of childhood and the Chinese family, but they also reveal more broad uncertainties around legal frameworks, institutional practices, health and labor rights—and cause lawyering itself. Based on three years of fieldwork across the United States, Lawyering an Uncertain Cause is a novel study of the complex and often contradictory rights, responsibilities, and expectations that motivate global youth and the American attorneys who work on their behalf.

Author : Austin Sarat,Stuart Scheingold
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780195354478

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Cause Lawyering by Austin Sarat,Stuart Scheingold Pdf

Why do some lawyers devote themselves to a given social movement or political cause? How are such deeds of individual commitment and personal belief justly executed, given the ideals of disinterested professional service to which lawyers are (in theory, at least) supposed to adhere? What can we learn from such lawyers about the relationship between law and politics? Cause Lawyering is a wise and varied collection of responses to these questions, featuring a number of distinguished legal scholars concerned with anti-poverty lawyers, lawyers who work against capital punishment, immigration lawyers, and other lawyers working to end oppression. Editors Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold have assembled here a valuable cross-national portrait of lawyers compelled to sacrifice financial gain so as to use their legal skills in the promotion of a more just society. These telling and important essays fully explore the relationship between cause lawyering and the organized legal professions of many different countries--the US, England, South Africa, Israel, Cuba, and so forth. They describe the utility of law as a resource in political struggles and, conversely, highlight the constraints under which lawyers necessarily operate when they turn to politics. Some provide broad theoretical overviews; others present rich case studies. Advancing a fundamental argument about the very nature of the legal profession, this book explains the strategies that cause lawyers deploy, as well as the challenges they face in trying to be legally astute and effective while remaining politically devoted and aware. Although it is a controversial way of practicing law, cause lawyering, as explicated in the essays in this volume, is indeed indispensable to the legitimization of professional authority.

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Austin Sarat,Stuart A. Scheingold
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Cause lawyers
ISBN : 9780195141177

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

Cause lawyering is law as practised by the politically motivated and those devoted to moral activism. This text examines the concept in a global context, exploring ways in which it influences and is influenced by the disaggregation of state power associated with democratization, and how democratization empowers lawyers who want to effect change.

Author : Ralph A. Weisheit,Jessica Rene Peterson,Artur Pytlarz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000577327

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Research Methods for Rural Criminologists by Ralph A. Weisheit,Jessica Rene Peterson,Artur Pytlarz Pdf

Conducting rural criminological research exposes researchers to concerns such as absence or inadequate official data about crime and superficial rural-urban comparisons, rural isolation and distance from the researchers’ office to the study site, and lack of services or access to justice. This distinct cultural context means that studying rural crime requires creatively adapting existing research methods. Conducting research about or in rural settings requires unique researcher preparation, as everything from defining the space at the conception of a project to collecting and analyzing data differs from urban research. This book explores the various issues, challenges, and solutions for rural researchers in criminology. Integrating state of the art methodological approaches with practical illustrations, this book serves as an internationally comprehensive compendium of methods for students, scholars, and practitioners. While contributing to the growing field of rural criminology, it will also be of interest to those engaged with the related areas of rural health care, rural social work, and rural poverty.

Author : Austin Sarat,Stuart A. Scheingold
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : American Bar Association. House of Delegates,Center for Professional Responsibility (American Bar Association)
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 1590318730

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Model Rules of Professional Conduct by American Bar Association. House of Delegates,Center for Professional Responsibility (American Bar Association) Pdf

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Author : Irving Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015049808473

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Law and Lawyers in Literature by Irving Browne Pdf

Author : Edmund Hamilton Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UOM:35112203987229

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Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Edmund Hamilton Smith Pdf

Author : Russell H. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Hospital attorneys
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011975294

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Legal Uncertainty and the Influence of Lawyers Within Hospitals by Russell H. Miller Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:B4407946

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Albany Law Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lawerence Baker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135354213

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Nephrology for Lawyers by Lawerence Baker Pdf

This text is aimed mainly at those in the legal profession who deal with medical negligence. It sets out in simple language details of the structure and function of the kidneys and urinary tract,the chief methods of investigation of kidney disease, and the common disorders which confront the renal physician. Many illustrative cases are described.It is hoped that, in particular, barristers and solicitors will find the book an aid to comprehension of the technical and professional issues raised by cases with which they deal.

Author : Gabrielle Marceau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107085237

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A History of Law and Lawyers in the GATT/WTO by Gabrielle Marceau Pdf

Bringing together original contributions from an unprecedented number of eminent current and former GATT and WTO staff members, including many current and former Appellate Body members, this book is a unique exploration of the development of the rule of the law in the multilateral trading system.

Author : William Lynwood Montell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813127132

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Tales from Kentucky Lawyers by William Lynwood Montell Pdf

"A woman was sitting on the witness stand, and the lawyer asked her, 'Did you, or did you not, on the night of June 23rd have sex with a hippie on the back of a motorcycle in a peach orchard?' She thought for a few minutes, then said, 'What was that date again?'"—from the book Lawyers have long been known as master storytellers, and those from Kentucky are certainly no exception. Veteran oral historian and folklorist Lynwood Montell has collected tales from dozens of lawyers and judges from throughout the Bluegrass State, ranging from the story about the tough Jackson County judge who fined himself for being late to court to unwelcome dogs in the courtroom. Recorded just as they have been told for generations, these stories are sometimes funny, sometimes sad or frightening, sometimes raw and harrowing, but always remarkable. Far more than collection of lawyer jokes, Tales from Kentucky Lawyers recounts the most insightful, entertaining, and occasionally heartbreaking stories ever told by and about Kentucky lawyers and their clients, covering the spectrum from arson to homicide, domestic disagreements to sexual abuse, and everything in between. Tales from Kentucky Lawyers is a valuable resource for folklorists as well as an entertaining and vivid account of the often-surprising legal world.

Author : Marshall Houts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1348 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Evidence, Expert
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063811702

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Lawyers' Guide to Medical Proof by Marshall Houts Pdf