SPECIAL ISSUE: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS/LEGAL POSSIBILITIES -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- EDITORIAL BOARD -- TWO SPINNING WHEELS: STUDYING LAW AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS -- SYNTHESIZING LAW AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS -- THE MULTIVALENT NATURE OF LAW: STATE AND SYMBOLS -- LAW AS A STRATEGIC RESOURCE IN THE LIFE OF A SOCIAL MOVEMENT -- LAW AND IDENTITY AMONG SOCIAL MOVEMENT ACTIVISTS -- CAUSE LAWYERS AND THE LIFE OF A SOCIAL MOVEMENT -- DIRECTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH -- REFERENCES -- DECOLONIZING THE LAW: LGBT ORGANIZING IN NAMIBIA AND SOUTH AFRICA -- LGBT ORGANIZING AND THE LAW -- LGBT ORGANIZING AS A DECOLONIZATION MOVEMENT -- DATA AND METHODS -- FINDINGS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE STATE'S CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY: THE CASE OF MUSLIMS IN FRANCE -- IMAGINING AND CONSTRUCTING A MUSLIM IDENTITY: ELITE DISCOURSE AND GOVERNMENTAL INSTITUTIONS -- THE DIVERSITY OF FRANCE'S MUSLIMS: NO IDENTITY-BASED SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ANY TIME SOON -- UNINTENDED EFFECTS: HOW FRENCH ELITES ARE INSPIRING WHAT LITTLE COMMONALITY THERE IS AMONG MUSLIMS IN FRANCE TODAY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- REJECTING RIGHTS: THE DISABILITY CRITIQUE OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE -- INTRODUCTION: BETTER DEAD THAN DISABLED? -- THE LEGAL LANDSCAPE: FRAMING A RIGHT TO PAS -- USE OF RIGHTS TALK IN THE EFFORTS TO LEGALIZE PAS -- THE CENTERPIECE OF RIGHTS TALK: AUTONOMY -- RHETORICAL STRATEGIES: THE POWER OF PERSONAL STORIES -- THE 1991 WASHINGTON INITIATIVE -- THE CIVIL RIGHTS OPPOSITION TO PAS: DISPARATE IMPACT, VULNERABLE GROUPS, AND SLIPPERY SLOPES -- SLIPPERY SLOPES TO INVOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA -- CLASH OF RIGHTS DISCOURSE -- THE DISABILITY RIGHTS CRITIQUE: FOCUS ON DIGNITY -- ADVOCACY AND THE POWER OF PERSONAL STORIES -- TERRI SCHIAVO AS A DISABILITY RIGHTS CASE.

CONCLUSIONS: REJECTING RIGHTS AND QUESTIONING THE LIBERAL SUBJECT -- RETHINKING DISABILITY IDENTITY: BOUNDARIES OF SUFFERING -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- SOCIAL MOVEMENTS LASHING BACK: LAW, SOCIAL CHANGE AND INTRA-SOCIAL MOVEMENT BACKLASH IN CANADA -- INTRODUCTION -- INTRA-SOCIAL MOVEMENT BACKLASH AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO LEGAL MOBILIZATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE -- INTRA-SOCIAL MOVEMENT BACKLASH IN CANADA -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PROTEST ARRESTS AND FUTURE PROTEST PARTICIPATION: THE 2004 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION ARRESTEES AND THE EFFECTS OF REPRESSION -- SOCIAL MOVEMENT RESEARCH ON REPRESSION -- THE DISSENT-REPRESSION NEXUS -- MICRO PROCESSES IN REPRESSION -- POLICING AT THE 2004 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION -- DATA AND METHODS -- FINDINGS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CONVINCING ELITES, CONTROLLING ELITES -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PROGRESS NARRATIVE OF ELITE SUPPORT IN THE LEGAL MOBILIZATION FRAMEWORK -- CONTEXTUALIZING ELITE SUPPORT: UNDERSTANDING RISKS AND BENEFITS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- AFTER 9/11: GUANTÁNAMO AND THE MOBILIZATION OF LAWYERS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CONCEPT OF ''HETEROGENEOUS MOBILIZATION'' OF LAWYERS -- HETEROGENEOUS LAWYER MOBILIZATION AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT THEORY -- RESEARCH DESIGN -- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- INDIVIDUAL MOTIVATIONS: WHY DID LAWYERS UNDERTAKE GUANTÃNAMO LAWYERING? -- THE THREE PHASES OF GUANTÃNAMO LAWYERING -- THE EFFECTS OF LAWYER MOBILIZATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES.