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

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2006.

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Cause lawyers -- United States.

Public interest law -- United States.

What cause lawyers do for, and to, social movements: an introduction / Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold

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. Dun 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 Labor Relations Act / Jennifer Gordon

Mobilization lawyering: community economic development in the Figueroa Corridor / Scott L. Cummings.

Includes index.

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xi, 341 p.