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Cause lawyers and social movements / edited by Austin Sarat, Stuart A. Scheingold.

Other author/creatorSarat, Austin.
Other author/creatorScheingold, Stuart A.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoStanford, Calif. : Stanford Law and Politics, 2006.
Descriptionx, 341 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content Table of contents
Subject(s)
Contents Retrenchment-- and resurgence? mapping the changing context of movement lawyering in the United States / Michael McCann and Jeffrey Dudas -- The profession, the grassroots and the elite: cause lawyering for civil rights and freedom in the direct action era / Thomas Hilbink -- Cause lawyers in the first wave of same sex marriage litigation / Scott Barclay and Shauna Fisher -- Cause lawyering and political advocacy: moving law on behalf of Central American refugees / Susan Bibler Coutin -- Consumer cause lawyers in the United States: lawyers for the movement or a movement unto themselves? / Stephen Meili -- To lead with law: reassessing the influence of legal advocacy organizations in social movements / Sandra R. Levitsky -- Social movement strategies and the participatory potential of litigation / Anna-Maria Marshall -- The haves come out ahead: how cause lawyers frame the legal system for movements / Lynn Jones -- In legal culture, but not of it: the role of cause lawyers in evangelical legal mobilization / Kevin R. den Dulk -- Intersecting identities: cause lawyers as legal professionals and social movement actors / Corey S. Shdaimah -- The movement takes the lead: the role of lawyers in the struggle for a living wage in Santa Monica, California / Kathleen M. Erskine and Judy Marblestone -- A movement in the wake of a new law: the United Farm Workers and the California Agricultural Relations Act / Jennifer Gordon -- Mobilization lawyering: community economic development in the Figueroa Corridor / Scott L. Cummings.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005036242
ISBN0804753601 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN080475361X (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780804753616

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