Full Description
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 social movements turn to and use lawyers and legal strategies? Does their use of lawyers and legal strategies advance or constrain the achievement of their goals? And, how do movements shape the lawyers who serve them and how do lawyers shape the movements?
Contents
Contents Contributors000 Introduction: What Cause Lawyers Do For and To Social Move- ments--An Introduction 000 Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold THE LIFE CYCLE OF MOVEMENTS AND MOVEMENT LAW- YERING Retrenchment...and Resurgence? Mapping the Changing Context of Movement Lawyering in the United States000 Michael McCann and Jeffrey Dudas The Profession, the Grassroots & the Elite: Cause Lawyering for Civil Rights and Freedom in the Direct Action Era000 Thomas Hilbink Cause Lawyers in the First Wave of Same Sex Marriage Litigation 000 Scott Barclay and Shauna Fisher Cause Lawyering and Political Advocacy: Moving Law on Behalf of Central American Refugees000 Susan Bilder Coutin Consumer Cause Lawyering in the U.S.: Lawyers for the Movement or a Movement Unto Themselves?000 Stephen Meili LAWYERS AND ACTIVISTS/LAWYERS AS ACTIVISTS: PRO- FESSIONAL IDENTITIES AND MOVEMENT POLITICS To Lead With Law: Reassessing the Influence of Legal Advocacy Organizations in Social Movements000 Sandra R. Levitsky Social Movement Strategies and the Participatory Potential of Litiga- tion000 Anna-Maria Marshall The Haves Come Out Ahead: How Cause Lawyers Frame the Legal System for Movements000 Lynn Jones In Legal Culture, But Not Of It: The Role of Cause Lawyers in Evangelical Legal Mobilization000 Kevin R. den Dulk Index000
