The cultural lives of cause lawyers

By:

Sarat Austin

Contributor(s):

Scheingold Stuart

Publication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2008Description: 400p xiISBN:

9780521711357

Subject(s):

1. Cause Lawyers - Public Opinion - U S A 2. Culture & Law - U S A 3. Public Interest Law - U S A

DDC classification:

344.730000 SAR

Online resources:

Table of contents only

Contents:

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.

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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.

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