Cause Lawyers and Social Movements Sarat Scheingold Paperback John Wiley & Sons

Cause Lawyers and Social MovementsAuthor(s): Austin Sarat, Stuart A. Scheingold\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford Law and Politics\nISBN-13: 9780804753616, 978-0804753616\nSynopsis\nCause 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. \n\n The editors and authors of this volume explore the following questions: What do cause lawyers do for, and to, social movements? How, when, and why do social movements turn to and use lawyers and legal strategies? Does their use of lawyers and legal strategies advance or constrain the achievement of their goals?