Cause Lawyers and Social Movements

Book Overview

Cause Lawyers and Social Movements seeks to reorient scholarship on cause lawyers, inviting scholars to think about cause lawyering from the perspective of those political activists with whom cause lawyers work and whom they seek to serve. It demonstrates that while all cause lawyering cuts against the grain of conventional understandings of legal practice and professionalism, social movement lawyering poses distinctively thorny problems...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080475361X
• ISBN13: 9780804753616
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Stanford Law and Politics
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"