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The cultural lives of cause lawyers /

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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sarat, Austin, Scheingold, Stuart A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Bringing cultural analysis to the study of cause lawyers / Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold
  • 'No sacrifice is too great for the cause!' : cause(less) lawyering and the legal trials and tribulations of Gone with the wind / William P. MacNeil
  • Purpose-driven lawyers : evangelical cause lawyering and the culture war / Kevin R. den Dulk
  • Cause lawyers and Cracker culture at the constructive edge : a 'band of brothers' defeats Big Tobacco / Tim Howard
  • 'They all have different policies, so of course they have to give different news' : images of human rights lawyers in the British press / Richard J. Maiman
  • Ed Fagan and the ethics of causes : who stole identity politics? / Valerie Karno
  • Of windmills and wetlands : the press and the romance of property rights / Laura J. Hatcher
  • 'The kids are alright' : cause lawyering on television in 1960s America / Thomas M. Hilbink
  • Nothing to believe in : lawyers in contemporary films about public interest litigation / Michael McCann and William Haltom
  • 'Of course he just stood there; he's the law': two depictions of cause lawyers in post-authoritarian Chile / Stephen Meili
  • Paulina Escobar as cause lawyer : 'litigating' human rights in the shadows of Death and the maiden / Ben Fleury-Steiner and Aaron Fichtelberg
  • Cause lawyering 'English style' : reading Rumpole of the Bailey / Leslie J. Moran
  • Now you see it, now you don't : cause lawyering, popular culture, and A civil action / Stuart A. Scheingold
  • Not what they expected : legal services lawyers in the eyes of legal services clients / Corey S. Shdaimah.