Cause lawyering : political commitments and professional responsibilities / / edited by Austin Sarat & Stuart Scheingold
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| Titolo: |
Cause lawyering : political commitments and professional responsibilities / / edited by Austin Sarat & Stuart Scheingold
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1998 |
| ©1998 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (571 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 340/.115 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cause lawyers |
| Law - Political aspects | |
| Sociological jurisprudence | |
| Public interest law | |
| Practice of law | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | SaratAustin |
| ScheingoldStuart A. | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Contributors; 1. Cause Lawyering and the Reproduction of Professional Authority: An Introduction; I. Contexts and Conditions of Cause Lawyering; 2. The Causes of Cause Lawyering: Toward an Understanding of the Motivation and Commitment of Social Justice Lawyers; 3. Speaking Law to Power: Occasions for Cause Lawyering; 4. The Struggle to Politicize Legal Practice: A Case Study of Left-Activist Lawyering in Seattle; II. Cause Lawyering and the Organization of Practice; 5. Norris, Schmidt, Green, Harris, Higginbotham & Associates: The Sociolegal Import of Philadelphia Cause Lawyers |
| 6. Still Trying: Cause Lawyering for the Poor and Disadvantaged in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania7. Critical Lawyers: Social Justice and the Structures of Private Practice; 8. Destruction of Houses and Construction of a Cause: Lawyers and Bedouins in the Israeli Courts; III. Strategies of Cause Lawyering under Liberal Legalism; 9. Rethinking Law's "Allurements": A Relational Analysis of Social Movement Lawyers in th | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The essays in this text represent a cross-national portrait of lawyers compelled to sacrifice financial gain so as to use their legal skills in the promotion of a more just society. The essays explore the relationship between cause lawyering and the organized legal professions of many countries. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Cause lawyering |
| ISBN: | 0-19-771858-2 |
| 1-60256-186-9 | |
| 1-280-45378-8 | |
| 1-4237-5967-2 | |
| 0-19-535447-8 | |
| 0-585-24778-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910778722903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Oxford socio-legal studies.