The Cultural Lives of Cause Lawyers

Herausgeber: Sarat, Austin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the cultural lives of cause lawyers by focusing on their representation in various popular media.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 752g
• ISBN-13: 9780521884488
• ISBN-10: 0521884489
• Artikelnr.: 23526053

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Cultural Work of Cause Lawyers: 1. No sacrifice is too great
for the cause!: cause(less) lawyering and the legal trials and tribulations
of Gone with the Wind; 2. Purpose driven lawyers: evangelical cause
lawyering and the culture war; 3. Cause lawyers and cracker culture at the
constructive edge: a 'band of brothers' defeats big tobacco; Part II. The
Cultural Construction of Lawyers and Their Causes: 4. 'They all have
different policies, so of course they have to give different news': images
of human rights lawyers in the British press; 5. Ed Fagan and the ethics of
causes: who stole identity politics?; 6. Of windmills and wetlands: the
press and the romance of property rights; 7. 'The kids are alright': cause
lawyering on television in 1960s America; 8. Nothing to believe in: lawyers
in contemporary films about public interest litigation; 9. 'Of course he
just stood there; he's the law': two depictions of cause lawyers in
post-authoritarian Chile; 10. Paulina Escobar as cause lawyer: 'litigating'
human rights in the shadows of Death and the Maiden; Part III. The Cultural
Reception of Lawyers and Their Causes: 11. Cause lawyering 'English style':
reading Rumpole of the Bailey; 12. Now you see it, now you don't: cause
lawyering, popular culture, and a civil action; 13. Not what they expected:
legal services lawyers in the eyes of legal services clients.