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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1. Cause Lawyers - U S A 2. Social Movements - U S A