The Cultural Lives Of Cause Lawyers

Author : Austin Sarat,Stuart Scheingold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139470919

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The Cultural Lives of Cause Lawyers by Austin Sarat,Stuart Scheingold Pdf

This book seeks to illuminate what we call the cultural lives of cause lawyers by examining their representation in various popular media (including film, fiction, mass-marketed non-fiction, television, and journalism), the work they do as creators of cultural products, and the way those representations and products are received and consumed by various audiences. By attending to media representations and the culture work done by cause lawyers, we can see what material is available for citizens and others to use in fashioning understandings of those lawyers. This book also provides a vehicle for determining whether, how, and to what extent cause lawyering is embedded in the discourses and symbolic practice around which ordinary citizens organize their understanding of social, political, and legal life. This book brings together research on the legal profession with work that takes up the analysis of popular culture. Contributors to this work include scholars of popular culture who turn their attention to cause lawyers and experts on cause lawyering who in turn focus their attention on popular culture. This is a joining of perspectives that is both long overdue and fruitful for both kinds of scholarship.

Author : Scheingold Stuart a Sarat Austin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 0511388381

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The Cultural Lives of Cause Lawyers by Scheingold Stuart a Sarat Austin Pdf

This book examines the cultural lives of cause lawyers by focusing on their representation in various popular media.

Author : Austin Sarat,Stuart Scheingold
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Stuart A. Scheingold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1602567956

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Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era by Stuart A. 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 : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Stanford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Jacqueline Kinghan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509938117

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Lawyers, Networks and Progressive Social Change by Jacqueline Kinghan Pdf

Written by a lawyer who works at the intersection between legal education and practice in access to justice and human rights, this book locates, describes and defines a collective identity for social justice lawyering in the UK. Underpinned by theories of cause lawyering and legal mobilisation, the book argues that it is vital to understand the positions that progressive lawyers collectively take in order to frame the connections they make between their personal and professional lives, the tools they use to achieve social change, as well as ethical tensions presented by their work. The book takes a reflexive ethnographic approach to capture the stories of 35 lawyers working to positively transform law and policy in the UK over the last 50 years. It also draws on a wealth of primary sources including case reports, historic campaign materials and media analysis alongside wider ethnographic interviews with academics, students and lawyers and participant observation at social justice conferences, workshops and events. The book explains the way in which lawyers' networks facilitate their collective positioning and influence their strategic decision making, which in turn shapes their interactions with social activists, with other lawyers and with the state itself.

Author : Michele Statz
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 A. Scheingold
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Austin Sarat,Thomas R. Kearns
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780472023608

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Law in Everyday Life by Austin Sarat,Thomas R. Kearns Pdf

"Sarat and Kearns . . . have edited a truly marvelous work on the impact of the law on daily life and vice versa. . . . the essays are all exemplary, thought- provoking works worthy of a long, contemplative read by scholars, lawyers, and judges alike." --Choice "The subject of law in everyday life is timely in theory and in practice. The essays collected here are stimulating for the very different ways in which they reconfigure the meanings of 'the law' as cultural practice, and 'the everyday' as a cultural domain in which the state expresses a range of interests and engagements. Readers looking for an introduction to this topic will come away from the book with a clear sense of the varied voices and modes of inquiry now involved in sociolegal studies, and what distinguishes them. More experienced readers will appreciate the book's meticulous reconsideration of the instrumentalities, agencies, and constructedness of law." --Carol Greenhouse, Indiana University Contributors include David Engel, Hendrik Hartog, Thomas R. Kearns, David Kennedy, Catharine MacKinnon, George Marcus, Austin Sarat, and Patricia Williams. Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, and Chair of the Department of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College. Thomas R. Kearns is William H. Hastie Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College.

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780857243577

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Special Issue: Law Firms, Legal Culture and Legal Practice by Austin Sarat Pdf

Large law firms have become a dominant feature of the legal landscape in the United States and elsewhere. This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society examines the situation of large law firms.

Author : Richard L Abel,Hilary Sommerlad,Ole Hammerslev,Ulrike Schultz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509931231

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Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies by Richard L Abel,Hilary Sommerlad,Ole Hammerslev,Ulrike Schultz Pdf

This book presents an invaluable collection of essays by eminent scholars from a wide variety of disciplines on the main issues currently confronting legal professions across the world. It does this through a comparative analysis of the data provided by the reports on 46 countries in its companion volume: Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies: Vol. 1: National Reports (Hart 2020). Together these volumes build on the seminal collection Lawyers in Society (Abel and Lewis 1988a; 1988b; 1989). The period since 1988 has seen an acceleration and intensification of the global socio-economic, cultural and political developments that in the 1980s were challenging traditional professional forms. Together with the striking transformation of the world order as a result of the fall of the Soviet bloc, neo-liberalism, globalisation, the financialisation of capitalism, technological innovations, and the changing demography of lawyers, these developments underscored the need for a new, comparative exploration of the legal professional field. This volume deepens the insights in volume 1, with chapters on legal professions in Africa, Latin America, the Islamic world, emerging economies, and former communist regimes. It also addresses theoretical questions, including the sociology of lawyers and other professions (medicine, accountancy), state production, the rule of law, regional bodies, large law firms, access to justice, technology, casualisation, cause lawyering, diversity (gender, race, and masculinity), corruption, ethics regulation, and legal education. Together with volume 1, it will inform and challenge conceptions of the contemporary profession, and stimulate and support further research.

Author : Frans Viljoen,Jehoshaphat Njau
Publisher : PULP
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 9781920538088

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Beyond the Law by Frans Viljoen,Jehoshaphat Njau Pdf

Author : Kieran McEvoy,Louise Mallinder,Anna Bryson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521853989

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Lawyers in Conflict and Transition by Kieran McEvoy,Louise Mallinder,Anna Bryson Pdf

Studies what lawyers do in challenging contexts of conflict, authoritarianism, and the transition from violence.

Author : Leslie J Moran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780429865770

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Law, Judges and Visual Culture by Leslie J Moran Pdf

Law, Judges and Visual Culture analyses how pictures have been used to make, manage and circulate ideas about the judiciary through a variety of media from the sixteenth century to the present. This book offers a new approach to thinking about and making sense of the important social institution that is the judiciary. In an age in which visual images and celebrity play key roles in the way we produce, communicate and consume ideas about society and its key institutions, this book provides the first in-depth study of visual images of judges in these contexts. It not only examines what appears within the frame of these images; it also explores the impact technologies and the media industries that produce them have upon the way we engage with them, and the experiences and meanings they generate. Drawing upon a wide range of scholarship – including art history, film and television studies, and social and cultural studies, as well as law – and interviews with a variety of practitioners, painters, photographers, television script writers and producers, as well as court communication staff and judges, the book generates new and unique insights into making, managing and viewing pictures of judges. Original and insightful, Law, Judges and Visual Culture will appeal to scholars, postgraduates and undergraduates from a variety of disciplines that hold an interest in the role of visual culture in the production of social justice and its institutions.