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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade Review"The research Sarat and Scheingold present here substantially transforms our understanding of cause lawyering and the legal profession and makes an important contribution to the field. The essays in this volume represent a wide variety of cause lawyering settings, in terms of political orientation, nationality, and structure of practice." -Richard Abel, UCLA School of Law "Yet again, Sarat and Scheingold advance the cause of cause lawyering as surely the most successful collective project on the legal profession. This volume of illuminating case studies from across the world will inspire a new generation of morally and politically committed lawyers to recognize their prospects of bringing justice to an unjust world." -Terence C. Halliday, Northwestern University and Research Fellow for the American Bar Foundation
Table of ContentsContents Contributors Introduction: The Dynamics of Cause Lawyering: Constraints and Opportunities 1 Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold Section I: Causes and the Lawyers Who Serve Them: How Do Causes Make Their Lawyers and Lawyers Make Their Causes 1. Corporate Responsibility and the South African Drug Wars: New Frontier for Cause Lawyers 37 Ronen Shamir 2. A Political-Professional Commitment? French Workers' and Unions' Lawyers as Cause Lawyers 000 Laurent Willemez 3. Professional Identities and Political Commitment among Lawyers for Conservative Causes 000 Ann Southworth 4. Economic Libertarians, Property, and Institutions: Linking Activism, Ideas, and Identities among Property Rights Advocates 000 Laura Hatcher 5. From Cause Lawyering to Resistance: French Communist Lawyers in the Shadow of History (1929-1945) 000 Liora Israel Section II: Making a Practice: Balancing Professionalism and Activism 6. Supporting a Cause, Developing a Movement, and Consolidating a Practice: Cause Lawyers and Sexual Orientation Litigation in Vermont 000 Scott Barclay and Anna-Maria Marshall 7. Exploring the Sources of Cause and Career Correspondence among Cause Lawyers 000 Lynn C. Jones 8. Dilemmas of "Progressive" Lawyering: Empowerment and Hierarchy 000 Corey S. Shdaimah 9. Negotiating Cause Lawyering Potential in the Early Years of Corporate Practice 000 Douglas Thomson Section III. Strategy and Social Capital 10. Cause Lawyers and Judicial Community in Israel: Legal Change in a Diffuse, Normative Community 000 Patricia J. Woods 11. Transgressive Cause Lawyering in the Developing World: The Case of India 000 Jayanth K. Krishnan 12. Cause Lawyering for Collective Justice: A Case Study of the Amparo Colectivo in Argentine 000 Stephen Meili 13. Asylum Law Practice in the United Kingdom after the Human Rights Act 000 Richard J. Maiman 14. ATLA Shrugged: Why Personal Injury Lawyers Are Not Public Defenders of Their Own Causes 000 Michael McCann and William Haltom AFTERWORD: In the End, or the Cause of Law 000 Peter Fitzpatrick Index
