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This book seeks to illuminate what we call the cultural lives of
cause lawyers by examining their representation in various popular
media (including film, fiction, mass-marketed non-fiction,
television, and journalism), the work they do as creators of
cultural products, and the way those representations and products
are received and consumed by various audiences. By attending to
media representations and the culture work done by cause lawyers,
we can see what material is available for citizens and others to
use in fashioning understandings of those lawyers. This book also
provides a vehicle for determining whether, how, and to what extent
cause lawyering is embedded in the discourses and symbolic practice
around which ordinary citizens organize their understanding of
social, political, and legal life. This book brings together
research on the legal profession with work that takes up the
analysis of popular culture. Contributors to this work include
scholars of popular culture who turn their attention to cause
lawyers and experts on cause lawyering who in turn focus their
attention on popular culture. This is a joining of perspectives
that is both long overdue and fruitful for both kinds of
scholarship.
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.
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.
This book seeks to illuminate what we call the cultural lives of
cause lawyers by examining their representation in various popular
media (including film, fiction, mass-marketed non-fiction,
television, and journalism), the work they do as creators of
cultural products, and the way those representations and products
are received and consumed by various audiences. By attending to
media representations and the culture work done by cause lawyers,
we can see what material is available for citizens and others to
use in fashioning understandings of those lawyers. This book also
provides a vehicle for determining whether, how, and to what extent
cause lawyering is embedded in the discourses and symbolic practice
around which ordinary citizens organize their understanding of
social, political, and legal life. This book brings together
research on the legal profession with work that takes up the
analysis of popular culture. Contributors to this work include
scholars of popular culture who turn their attention to cause
lawyers and experts on cause lawyering who in turn focus their
attention on popular culture. This is a joining of perspectives
that is both long overdue and fruitful for both kinds of
scholarship.
Sarat and Scheingold's book, Cause Lawyering, the first volume of its kind, coined the term for law as practiced by the politically motivated and those devoted to moral activism. The new collection examines cause lawyering in the global context, exploring the ways in which it is influencing and being influenced by the disaggregation of state power associated with democratization, and how democratization empowers lawyers who want to effect change. New configurations of state power create opportunities for altering the political and social status quo. Cause lawyers are developing transnational networks to exploit these global opportunities, and to help strengthen international norms on issues such as human rights. The fifteen essays will focus on different national settings including South Africa, Israel, the U.K. and Latin America.
This book is a cross-national study of lawyers who devote themselves to serving political cuases. The essays collected here bring togehter the work of eighteen scholars, each of whom contributes a valuable portrait of lawyers who sacrifice financial advantage to use their professional skills to promote their vision of a more just society.
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