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The cultural lives of cause lawyers
Sarat Austin
The cultural lives of cause lawyers - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2008 - 400p xi
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements:
Contributions:
Bringing Cultural Analysis to the Study of Cause Lawyers:
An Introduction 1 Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold;
Part I. The Cultural Work of Cause Lawyers:
1. No sacrifice is too great for the cause!: cause(less) lawyering and the legal trials and tribulations of Gone with the Wind;
2. Purpose driven lawyers: evangelical cause lawyering and the culture war;
3. Cause lawyers and cracker culture at the constructive edge: a 'band of brothers' defeats big tobacco;
Part II. The Cultural Construction of Lawyers and Their Causes:
4. 'They all have different policies, so of course they have to give different news': images of human rights lawyers in the British press;
5. Ed Fagan and the ethics of causes: who stole identity politics?;
6. Of windmills and wetlands: the press and the romance of property rights;
7. 'The kids are alright': cause lawyering on television in 1960s America;
8. Nothing to believe in: lawyers in contemporary films about public interest litigation;
9. 'Of course he just stood there, he's the law': two depictions of cause lawyers in post-authoritarian Chile;
10. Paulina Escobar as cause lawyer: 'litigating' human rights in the shadows of Death and the Maiden;
Part III. The Cultural Reception of Lawyers and Their Causes:
11. Cause lawyering 'English style': reading Rumpole of the Bailey;
12. Now you see it, now you don't: cause lawyering, popular culture, and a civil action;
13. Not what they expected: legal services lawyers in the eyes of legal services clients;
Index.
9780521711357
1. Cause Lawyers - Public Opinion - U S A 2. Culture & Law - U S A 3. Public Interest Law - U S A
344.730000 / SAR
The cultural lives of cause lawyers - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2008 - 400p xi
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements:
Contributions:
Bringing Cultural Analysis to the Study of Cause Lawyers:
An Introduction 1 Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold;
Part I. The Cultural Work of Cause Lawyers:
1. No sacrifice is too great for the cause!: cause(less) lawyering and the legal trials and tribulations of Gone with the Wind;
2. Purpose driven lawyers: evangelical cause lawyering and the culture war;
3. Cause lawyers and cracker culture at the constructive edge: a 'band of brothers' defeats big tobacco;
Part II. The Cultural Construction of Lawyers and Their Causes:
4. 'They all have different policies, so of course they have to give different news': images of human rights lawyers in the British press;
5. Ed Fagan and the ethics of causes: who stole identity politics?;
6. Of windmills and wetlands: the press and the romance of property rights;
7. 'The kids are alright': cause lawyering on television in 1960s America;
8. Nothing to believe in: lawyers in contemporary films about public interest litigation;
9. 'Of course he just stood there, he's the law': two depictions of cause lawyers in post-authoritarian Chile;
10. Paulina Escobar as cause lawyer: 'litigating' human rights in the shadows of Death and the Maiden;
Part III. The Cultural Reception of Lawyers and Their Causes:
11. Cause lawyering 'English style': reading Rumpole of the Bailey;
12. Now you see it, now you don't: cause lawyering, popular culture, and a civil action;
13. Not what they expected: legal services lawyers in the eyes of legal services clients;
Index.
9780521711357
1. Cause Lawyers - Public Opinion - U S A 2. Culture & Law - U S A 3. Public Interest Law - U S A
344.730000 / SAR