{"product_id":"lawyers-networks-and-progressive-social-change-lawyers-changing-lives-9781509950089","title":"Lawyers, Networks and Progressive Social Change: Lawyers Changing Lives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDifferences between lawyers identified as radical, cause or progressive  can be difficult to discern. It is, however, interesting to explore  possible distinctions. This book brings a new perspective to that task. -- Andy Boon * Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLawyers, Networks and Progressive Social Change \u003c\/i\u003eis a welcome and long overdue study of progressive legal practice in the UK -- Tara Mulqueen * Modern Law Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction    2. The Context and Controversies of Progressive Lawyering  The Context of Progressive Lawyering  Cause Lawyering and Legal Mobilisation  The Controversies of Progressive Lawyering  Conclusions    3. Identifying Progressive Lawyers Narrative Methodology  Reflexivity and Elite Interviewing  Identifying Areas of Practice  Ethnography  Fieldwork Interviews: Research Participant Selection  Other Data Sources and Data Analysis  Contested Labelling of Progressive Legal Identity  Conclusions    4. Pathways to Law  The Legal Profession and Social Class  Shared Beginnings  Shared Left Values  Shared Turning Points  Collective Identity: Conclusions    5. Tools for Change  Legal Advice and Representation  Strategic Litigation  Policy Work and Campaigning  Conclusions  6. Educating Progressive Lawyers  An Autoethnographic Perspective on Legal Education  Social Alienation at Law School  Bringing US Experience Home  A Formative UK Experience  Conclusions    7. Professional Legal Ethics and the Progressive Social Self  Resolute Positions  Constrained Positions  Conflict and Contestation  Conclusions    8. Sustaining Progressive Lawyering  Funding and Burnout  Passion and Persistence  Knowledge and Experience  Barristers and Excellence  Social Mobility and Access  Conclusions    9. Lawyers, Networks and the Future of Progressive Lawyering: ‘This Work Needs to be Done’  Conceptualising a Progressive Lawyering Movement  A Progressive Lawyering Future  Appendix One: Table of Narrative Interviews  Appendix Two: Narrative Interview Question Guide","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084994507095,"sku":"9781509950089","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781509950089.jpg?v=1762207838","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lawyers-networks-and-progressive-social-change-lawyers-changing-lives-9781509950089","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}