Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era.
by
Sarat, Austin.
Title
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Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era.
Author
:
Sarat, Austin.
ISBN
:
9780198032373
Personal Author
:
Sarat, Austin.
Physical Description
:
1 online resource (430 pages)
Series
:
Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
Contents
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Contents -- Contributors -- 1. State Transformation, Globalization, and the Possibilities of Cause Lawyering: An Introduction -- I. Global Developments/Local Contests: New Opportunities/New Challenges -- 2. Two Worlds of Ghanaian Cause Lawyers -- 3. From the Fight for Legal Rights to the Promotion of Human Rights: Israeli and Palestinian Cause Lawyers in the Trenches of Globalization -- 4. Taking on Goliath: Why Personal Injury Litigation May Represent the Future of Transnational Cause Lawyering -- 5. Cause Lawyering in the Shadow of the State: A U.S. Immigration Example -- II. Globalization and State Transformation: Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation between Cause Lawyers and the State -- 6. Cause Lawyers in a Cold Climate: The Impact(s) of Globalization on the United Kingdom -- 7. State Transformation and the Struggle for Symbolic Capital: Cause Lawyers, the Organized Bar, and Capital Punishment in the United States -- 8. Cause Lawyers, Clients, and the State: Congress as a Forum for Cause Lawyering during the Enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act -- 9. The Global Language of Human Rights: Patterns of Cooperation between State and Civil Rights Lawyers in Israel -- 10. Legal Advocacy, Global Engagement: The Impact of Land Claims Advocacy on the Recognition of Property Rights in the South African Constitution -- 11. State-Oriented and Community-Oriented Lawyering for a Cause: A Tale of Two Strategies -- III. The Globalization of Cause Lawyering -- 12. Latin American Cause-Lawyering Networks -- 13. The Politics of Imported Rights: Transplantation and Transformation in an Israeli Environmental Cause-Lawyering Organization -- 14. Constructing Law Out of Power: Investing in Human Rights as an Alternative Political Strategy -- 15. Cause Lawyering and Democracy in Transnational Perspective: A Postcript -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E.
F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Local Note
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Subject Term
:
Cause lawyers.
Globalization.
Nation-state.
Public interest law.
Genre
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Electronic books.
Added Author
:
Scheingold, Stuart.
Electronic Access
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Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Status |
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IYTE Library | E-Book | 1300482-1001 | K118 .P82 -- C38 2001 EB | Ebrary E-Books |