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Austin Sarat - The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make: Structure and Agency in Legal Practice - 9780804752282 - V9780804752282
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The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make: Structure and Agency in Legal Practice

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Description for The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make: Structure and Agency in Legal Practice Hardback. The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make examines the connections between lawyers and causes, the settings in which cause lawyers practice, and the ways they marshal social capital and make strategic decisions. Editor(s): Sarat, Austin; Scheingold, Stuart A. Num Pages: 504 pages, 6 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: LAQ; LAS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 789.

The study of cause lawyering has grown dramatically and is now an important field of research in socio-legal studies and in research on the legal profession. The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make: Structure and Agency in Legal Practice adds to that growing body of research by examining the connections between lawyers and causes, the settings in which cause lawyers practice, and the ways they marshal social capital and make strategic decisions.

The book describes the constraints to cause lawyering and the particulars that shape what cause lawyers do and what cause lawyering can be, while also focusing on the dynamic ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
Number of Pages
504
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804752282
SKU
V9780804752282
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Austin Sarat
Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. Stuart Scheingold is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Washington. Together, Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold are the authors of Something to Believe In: Politics, Professionalism, and Cause Lawyering (Stanford University Press, 2004) and the editors ofCause Lawyering: Political Commitments and Professional ... Read more

Reviews for The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make: Structure and Agency in Legal Practice
"The research Sarat and Scheingold present here substantially transforms our understanding of cause lawyering and the legal profession and makes an important contribution to the field. The essays in this volume represent a wide variety of cause lawyering settings, in terms of political orientation, nationality, and structure of practice." -Richard Abel, UCLA School of Law "Yet again, Sarat and Scheingold ... Read more

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