By: Austin Sarat (Editor), Stuart A. Scheingold (Editor)

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The study of cause lawyering has grown dramatically and is now an important field of research in socio-legal studies and in research on the legal profession. "The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make: Structure and Agency in Legal Practice" adds to that growing body of research by examining the connections between lawyers and causes, the settings in which cause lawyers practice, and the ways they marshal social capital and make strategic decisions.
The book describes the constraints to cause lawyering and the particulars that shape what cause lawyers do and what cause lawyering can be, while also focusing on the dynamic interactions of cause lawyers and the legal, professional, and political contexts in which they operate. It presents a constructivist view of cause lawyering, analyzing what cause lawyers do in their day-to-day work, how they do it, and what difference their work makes. Taken together, the essays collected in this volume show how cause lawyers construct their legal and professional contexts and also how those contexts constrain their professional lives.

0;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.1; 2;Terence C. Halliday, Northwestern University and Research Fellow for the American Bar Foundation

Contributors	p. xi
Introduction: The Dynamics of Cause Lawyering-Constraints and Opportunities	p. 1
Causes and the Lawyers Who Serve Them: How Do Causes Make Their Lawyers and Lawyers Make Their Causes?
Corporate Responsibility and the South African Drug Wars: Outline of a New Frontier for Cause Lawyers	p. 37
A Political-Professional Commitment? French Workers' and Unions' Lawyers as Cause Lawyers	p. 63
Professional Identity and Political Commitment among Lawyers for Conservative Causes	p. 83
Economic Libertarians, Property, and Institutions: Linking Activism, Ideas, and Identities among Property Rights Advocates	p. 112
From Cause Lawyering to Resistance: French Communist Lawyers in the Shadow of History (1929-1945)	p. 147
Making a Practice: Balancing Professionalism and Activism
Supporting a Cause, Developing a Movement, and Consolidating a Practice: Cause Lawyers and Sexual Orientation Litigation in Vermont	p. 171
Exploring the Sources of Cause and Career Correspondence among Cause Lawyers	p. 203
Dilemmas of "Progressive" Lawyering: Empowerment and Hierarchy	p. 239
Negotiating Cause Lawyering Potential in the Early Years of Corporate Practice	p. 274
Strategy and Social Capital
Cause Lawyers and Judicial Community in Israel: Legal Change in a Diffuse, Normative Community	p. 307
Transgressive Cause Lawyering in the Developing World: The Case of India	p. 349
Cause Lawyering for Collective Justice: A Case Study of the Amparo Colectivo in Argentina	p. 383
Asylum Law Practice in the United Kingdom after the Human Rights Act	p. 410
ATLA Shrugged: Why Personal Injury Lawyers Are Not Public Defenders of Their Own Causes	p. 425
Afterword: In the End, or the Cause of Law	p. 463
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ISBN: 9780804752282
ISBN-10: 0804752281
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 504
Published: 12th July 2005
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Dimensions (cm): 23.8 x 16.0  x 3.3
Weight (kg): 0.789