Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era

by Sarat, Austin; Scheingold, Stuart

• ISBN13: 9780195141177
• ISBN10: 0195141172
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This volume brings together contextually sensitive, cross-cultural, and comparative research that analyzes the ways in which cause lawyering is influencing, and being influenced by, the disaggregation of state power associated with democratization and globalization.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi
State Transformation, Globalization, and the Possibilities of Cause Lawyering: An Introduction	3	(32)
Austin Sarat
Stuart A. Scheingold
I. Global Developments/Local Contests: New Opportunities/New Challenges
Two Worlds of Ghanaian Cause Lawyers	35	(33)
Lucie White
From the Fight for Legal Rights to the Promotion of Human Rights: Israeli and Palestinian Cause Lawyers in the Trenches of Globalization	68	(28)
Lisa Hajjar
Taking on Goliath: Why Personal Injury Litigation May Represent the Future of Transnational Cause Lawyering	96	(21)
Anne Bloom
Cause Lawyering in the Shadow of the State: A U. S. Immigration Example	117	(26)
Susan Bibler Coutin
II. Globalization and State Transformation: Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation between Cause Lawyers and the State
Cause Lawyers in a Cold Climate: The Impact (s) of Globalization on the United Kingdom	143	(43)
Andrew Boon
State Transformation and the Struggle for Symbolic Capital: Cause Lawyers, the Organized Bar, and Capital Punishment in the United States	186	(25)
Austin Sarat
Cause Lawyers, Clients, and the State: Congress as a Forum for Cause Lawyering during the Enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act	211	(33)
Neta ZIV
The Global Language of Human Rights: Patterns of Cooperation between State and Civil Rights Lawyers in Israel	244	(20)
Yoav Dotan
Legal Advocacy, Global Engagement: The Impact of Land Claims Advocacy on the Recognition of Property Rights in the South African Constitution	264	(23)
Heinz Klug
State-Oriented and Community-Oriented Lawyering for a Cause: A Tale of two Strategies	287	(20)
Ronen Shamir
Neta ZIV
III. The Globalization of Cause Lawyering
Latin American Cause-Lawyering Networks	307	(27)
Stephen Meili
The Politics of Imported Rights: Transplantation and Transplantation in an Israeli Environmental Cause-Lawyering Organization	334	(20)
Noga Morag-Levine
Constructing Law Out of Power: Investing in Human Rights as an Alternative Political Strategy	354	(28)
Yves Dezalay
Bryant G. Garth
Cause Lawyering and Democracy in Transnational Perspective: A Postcript	382	(25)
Stuart A. Scheingold
Index	407