Cause Lawyering or Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty First Century

Cause Lawyering: Political Commitments and Professional Responsibilities

Author: Austin Sarat

Why do some lawyers devote themselves to a given social movement or political cause? How are such commitments justified, given the ideals of disinterested professional service to which lawyers are (in theory, at least) supposed to adhere? What can we learn from such lawyers about the relationship between law and politics? Cause Lawyering is a varied and provocative collection of responses to these questions, featuring the work of several distinguished legal scholars. These essays explore the relationship between cause lawyering and the organized legal professions of many different countries: Brazil, England, Indonesia, Israel, South Africa, and the U.S., among others. They describe the utility of law as a resource in political struggles and, conversely, highlight the constraints under which lawyers operate when they turn to politics. Some provide broad theoretical overviews, others present rich case studies, and all will appeal to students and professionals interested in law and society.

Table of Contents:

	Contributors
1	Cause Lawyering and the Reproduction of Professional Authority: An Introduction	3
2	The Causes of Cause Lawyering: Toward an Understanding of the Motivation and Commitment of Social Justice Lawyers	31
3	Speaking Law to Power: Occasions for Cause Lawyering	69
4	The Struggle to Politicize Legal Practice: A Case Study of Left-Activist Lawyering in Seattle	118
5	Norris, Schmidt, Green, Harris, Higginbotham & Associates: The Sociolegal Import of Philadelphia Cause Lawyers	151
6	Still Trying: Cause Lawyering for the Poor and Disadvantaged in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	181
7	Critical Lawyers: Social Justice and the Structures of Private Practice	201
8	Destruction of Houses and Construction of a Cause: Lawyers and Bedouins in the Israeli Courts	227
9	Rethinking Law's "Allurements": A Relational Analysis of Social Movement Lawyers in the United States	261
10	Caring about Individual Cases: Immigration Lawyering in Britain	293
11	Between (the Presence of) Violence and (the Possibility of) Justice: Lawyering against Capital Punishment	317
12	Cause Lawyering in the Third World	349
13	Lawyers' Causes in Indonesia and Malaysia	431
14	Attorneys for the People, Attorneys for the Land: The Emergence of Cause Lawyering in the Israeli-Occupied Territories	453
15	Cause Lawyers and Social Movements: A Comparative Perspective on Democratic Change in Argentina and Brazil	487
16	All or Nothing: An Inquiry into the (Im)Possibility of Cause Lawyering under Cuban Socialism	523
	Select Bibliography	547
	Index	552

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Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century

Author: Richard B Freeman

Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century provides the first in-depth assessment of how effectively labor market institutions are responding to the decline of private sector unions.

This important volume provides case studies of new labor market institutions and new directions for existing institutions. While non-union institutions are unlikely to fill the gap left by the decline of unions, the findings suggest that emerging groups and unions might together improve some dimensions of worker well-being. Emerging Labor Market Institutions is the story of workers and institutions in flux, searching for ways to represent labor in the new century.