Sarat Austin

Cause lawyers and social movements - Stanford Stanford University Press 2006 - 341p xi

Contents:
Contributors xi;
What Cause Lawyers Do For, and To, Social Movements: An Introduction 1
AUSTIN SARAT AND STUART SCHEINGOLD;
Section I. The Life Cycle of Movements and Movement Lawyering;
Retrenchment... and Resurgence? Mapping the Changing Context of Movement Lawyering in the United States 37
MICHAEL MCCANN AND JEFFREY DUDAS;
The Profession, the Grassroots and the Elite: Cause Lawyering for Civil Rights and Freedom in the Direct Action Era 60
THOMAS HILBINK;
Cause Lawyers in the First Wave of Same Sex Marriage Litigation 84
SCOTT BARCLAY AND SHAUNA FISHER;
Cause Lawyering and Political Advocacy: Moving Law on Behalf of Central American Refugees 101
SUSAN BIBLER COUTIN;
Consumer Cause Lawyers in the United States: Lawyers for the Movement or a Movement unto Themselves? 120
STEPHEN MEILI;
Section II. Lawyers and Activists/Lawyers as Activists: Professional Identities and Movement Politics;
To Lead with Law: Reassessing the Influence of Legal Advocacy Organizations in Sodal Movements 145
SANDRA R. LEVITSKY;
Social Movement Strategies and the Partidpatory Potential of Litigation 164
ANNA-MARIA MARSHALL;
The Haves Come Out Ahead: How Cause Lawyers Frame the Legal System for Movements 182
LYNN JONES;
In Legal Culture, but Not of It: The Role of Cause Lawyers in Evangelical Legal Mobilization 197
KEVIN R. DEN DULK;
Intersecting Identities: Cause Lawyers as Legal Professionals and Social Movement Actors 220
COREY S. SHDAIMAH;
Section III. Beyond Litigation: Other Roles, Other Styles for Cause Lawyers in Social Movements;
The Movement Takes the Lead: The Role of Lawyers in the Struggle for a Living Wage in Santa Monica, California 249
KATHLEEN M. ERSKINE AND JUDY MARBLESTONE;
A Movement in the Wake of a New Law: The United Farm Workers and the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act 277
JENNIFER GORDON;
Mobilization Lawyering: Community Economic Development in the Figueroa Corridor 302
SCOTT L. CUMMINGS;
Index 337.


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