Cause Lawyers And Social Movements

by Sarat, Austin

• ISBN13: 9780804753616
• ISBN10: 080475361X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-05
• Publisher: Stanford Law & Politics

Summary

Cause Lawyers and Social Movementsseeks 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. 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? And, how do movements shape the lawyers who serve them and how do lawyers shape the movements?

Author Biography

Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor at Amherst College. Stuart A. Scheingold is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Washington. Together, Sarat and Scheingold are the authors of Something to Believe In: Politics, Professionalism, and Cause Lawyering (Stanford University Press, 2004).

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi
What Cause Lawyers Do For, and To, Social Movements: An Introduction	1	(36)
AUSTIN SARAT AND STUART SCHEINGOLD
Section I. The Life Cycle of Movements and Movement Lawyering
Retrenchment...and Resurgence? Mapping the Changing Context of Movement Lawyering in the United States	37	(23)
MICHAEL MCCANN AND JEFFREY DUDAS
The Profession, the Grassroots and the Elite: Cause Lawyering for Civil Rights and Freedom in the Direct Action Era	60	(24)
THOMAS HILBINK
Cause Lawyers in the First Wave of Same Sex Marriage Litigation	84	(17)
SCOTT BARCLAY AND SHAUNA FISHER
Cause Lawyering and Political Advocacy: Moving Law on Behalf of Central American Refugees	101	(19)
SUSAN BIBLER COUTIN
Consumer Cause Lawyers in the United States: Lawyers for the Movement or a Movement unto Themselves?	120	(25)
STEPHEN MEILI
Section II. Lawyers and Activists/Lawyers as Activists: Professional Identities and Movement Politics
To Lead with Law: Reassessing the Influence of Legal Advocacy Organizations in Social Movements	145	(19)
SANDRA R. LEVITSKY
Social Movement Strategies and the Participatory Potential of Litigation	164	(18)
ANNA-MARIA MARSHALL
The Haves Come Out Ahead: How Cause Lawyers Frame the Legal System for Movements	182	(415)
LYNN JONES
In Legal Culture, but Not of It: The Role of Cause Lawyers in Evangelical Legal Mobilization	597
KEVIN R. DEN DULK
Intersecting Identities: Cause Lawyers as Legal Professionals and Social Movement Actors	220	(29)
COREY S. SHDAIMAH
Section III. Beyond Litigation: Other Roles, Other Styles for Cause Lawyers in Social Movements
The Movement Takes the Lead: The Role of Lawyers in the Struggle for a Living Wage in Santa Monica, California	249	(28)
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	277	(25)
JENNIFER GORDON
Mobilization Lawyering: Community Economic Development in the Figueroa Corridor	302	(35)
SCOTT L. CUMMINGS
Index	337