Cause lawyers and social movements
By: edited by Austin Sarat and Stuart A. Scheingold.
Contributors: Sarat, Austin.; Scheingold, Stuart A.
Publisher: Stanford Law and Politics
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Cause lawyers -- United States; Social movements -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Retrenchment...and resurgence? mapping the changing context of movement lawyering in the United States / Michael McCann and Jeffrey Dudas; title: The profession, the grassroots & the elite: cause lawyering for civil rights and freedom in the direct action era / Thomas Hilbink; title: Cause lawyers in the first wave of same sex marriage litigation / Scott Barclay and Shauna Fisher; title: Cause lawyering and political advocacy: moving law on behalf of Central American refugees / Susan Bilder Coutin; title: Consumer cause lawyering in the U.S.: lawyers for the movement or a movement unto themselves? / Stephen Meili; title: To lead with law: reassessing the influence of legal advocacy; title: Organizations in social movements / Sandra R. Levitsky; title: Social movement strategies and the participatory potential of litigation / Anna-Maria Marshall; title: The haves come out ahead: how cause lawyers frame the legal system for movements / Lynn Jones; title: In legal culture, but not of it: the role of cause lawyers in evangelical legal mobilization / Kevin R. den Dulk.