Worlds Cause Lawyers Make

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 Responsibilities (1998) and Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era (2001). Theywere granted the National Equal Justice Library's 2004 Reginald Heber SmithAwardin recognition oftheir work on cause lawyering.

"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 advance the cause of cause lawyering as surely the most successful collective project on the legal profession. This volume of illuminating case studies from across the world will inspire a new generation of morally and politically committed lawyers to recognize their prospects of bringing justice to an unjust world." -Terence C. Halliday, Northwestern University and Research Fellow for the American Bar Foundation

• Contents Contributors Introduction: The Dynamics of Cause Lawyering: Constraints and Opportunities1 Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold Section I: Causes and the Lawyers Who Serve Them: How Do Causes Make Their Lawyers and Lawyers Make Their Causes 1.Corporate Responsibility and the South African Drug Wars: New Frontier for Cause Lawyers37 Ronen Shamir 2.A Political-Professional Commitment? French Workers' and Unions' Lawyers as Cause Lawyers000 Laurent Willemez 3.Professional Identities and Political Commitment among Lawyers for Conservative Causes000 Ann Southworth 4.Economic Libertarians, Property, and Institutions: Linking Activism, Ideas, and Identities among Property Rights Advocates000 Laura Hatcher 5.From Cause Lawyering to Resistance: French Communist Lawyers in the Shadow of History (1929-1945)000 Liora Israel Section II: Making a Practice: Balancing Professionalism and Activism 6.Supporting a Cause, Developing a Movement, and Consolidating a Practice: Cause Lawyers and Sexual Orientation Litigation in Vermont000 Scott Barclay and Anna-Maria Marshall 7.Exploring the Sources of Cause and Career Correspondence among Cause Lawyers000 Lynn C. Jones 8.Dilemmas of "Progressive" Lawyering: Empowerment and Hierarchy000 Corey S. Shdaimah 9.Negotiating Cause Lawyering Potential in the Early Years of Corporate Practice 000 Douglas Thomson Section III. Strategy and Social Capital 10.Cause Lawyers and Judicial Community in Israel: Legal Change in a Diffuse, Normative Community000 Patricia J. Woods 11.Transgressive Cause Lawyering in the Developing World: The Case of India 000 Jayanth K. Krishnan 12.Cause Lawyering for Collective Justice: A Case Study of the Amparo Colectivo in Argentine000 Stephen Meili 13.Asylum Law Practice in the United Kingdom after the Human Rights Act 000 Richard J. Maiman 14.ATLA Shrugged: Why Personal Injury Lawyers Are Not Public Defenders of Their Own Causes000 Michael McCann and William Haltom AFTERWORD: In the End, or the Cause of Law000 Peter Fitzpatrick Index