Cultural Lives of Cause Lawyers (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book seeks to illuminate what we call the cultural lives of cause lawyers by examining their representation in various popular media (including film, fiction, mass-marketed non-fiction, television, and journalism), the work they do as creators of cultural products, and the way those representations and products are received and consumed by various audiences. By attending to media representations and the culture work done by cause lawyers, we can see what material is available for citizens and others to use in fashioning understandings of those lawyers. This book also provides a vehicle for determining whether, how, and to what extent cause lawyering is embedded in the discourses and symbolic practice around which ordinary citizens organize their understanding of social, political, and legal life. This book brings together research on the legal profession with work that takes up the analysis of popular culture. Contributors to this work include scholars of popular culture who turn their attention to cause lawyers and experts on cause lawyering who in turn focus their attention on popular culture. This is a joining of perspectives that is both long overdue and fruitful for both kinds of scholarship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511380570
• Artikelnr.: 38186710

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.