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Book SynopsisThis book is valuable for law, sociology, and transitional justice researchers and postgraduate students interested in themes including cause lawyering, the sociology of the professions, the legal profession, gender and the law, the role of law in transition, peace negotiations, truth recovery, amnesties, strategic litigation, and legal ethics.
Trade Review'… invaluable … a realistic assessment of the complexities of the morally and politically fraught profession of cause lawyering.' David Dyzenhaus, Journal of Law and Society
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Lawyers in conflict and transition; 2. Cause lawyers, political violence, and professionalism in conflict; 3. Boycott, resistance, and the law: cause lawyering in conflict, repression, and transition; 4. Gender and cause lawyering in conflicted, authoritarian, and transitional societies; 5. Government lawyers in conflict, repression, and transition; 6. Lawyers in transitional political negotiations; 7. Lawyers, transitional justice and dealing with the past; 8. Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography.
