Cаusе Lаwyеrs аnd Sociаl Movеmеnts (Stаnford Lаw Books)
Publisher: Stаnford Lаw аnd Politics
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2006-06-05
List price: $80.00
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 so...