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9780804749473

Something To Believe In

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  • ISBN13:

    9780804749473

  • ISBN10:

    0804749477

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-09-13
  • Publisher: Stanford Law & Politics

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Summary

Lawyers in the United States are frequently described as "hired guns," willing to fight for any client and advance any interest. Claiming that their own beliefs are irrelevant to their work, they view lawyering as a technical activity, not a moral or political one. But there are others, those the authors call cause lawyers, who refuse to put aside their own convictions while they do their legal work. This "deviant" strain of lawyering is as significant as it is controversial, both in the legal profession and in the world of politics. It challenges mainstream ideas of what lawyers should do and of how they should behave. Human rights lawyers, feminist lawyers, right-to-life lawyers, civil rights and civil liberties lawyers, anti-death penalty lawyers, environmental lawyers, property rights lawyers, anti-poverty lawyerscause lawyers go by many names, serving many causes.Something to Believe Inexplores the work that cause lawyers do, the role of moral and political commitment in their practice, their relationships to the organized legal profession, and the contributions they make to democratic politics.

Author Biography

Stuart A. Scheingold is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Washington. Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Cause Lawyering and Conventional Lawyering: Professional and Political Perspectives
1(22)
Cause Lawyering, Civic Professionalism, and the Organized Legal Profession: A Brief History
23(28)
Beating the Odds: Cause Lawyering and Legal Education
51(21)
Careers in Cause Lawyering: Risks and Rewards
72(26)
Cause Lawyers and Liberal Democracy: On the Possibilities of Democratic Advocacy
98(26)
Conclusion: Cause Lawyering in Comparative and Global Perspective
124(19)
Notes 143(10)
References 153(16)
Index 169

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