The law in political integration: the evolution and integrative implications of regional legal processes in the European Community
In: Occassional papers in international affairs 27
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In: Occassional papers in international affairs 27
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
In: Oxford socio-legal studies
Cause lawyering is law as practised by the politically motivated and those devoted to moral activism. This text examines the concept in a global context, exploring ways in which it influences and is influenced by the disaggregation of state power associated with democratization, and how democratization empowers lawyers who want to effect change
In: Oxford socio-legal studies
In: Studies in law, politics, and society, Band 59, S. 199-231
This chapter critically assesses the neoconservative communitarian critique of rights talk and practices in the contemporary United States. We argue that the critics are unconvincing about: (a) the institutional history of civil rights development; (b) the actual character of rights talk and practices in ordinary life; and (c) the allegation that rights talk undermines community, which remains a poorly specified and implicitly inegalitarian standard. Our argument is developed on the basis of sociolegal theory and empirical study over the last several decades. [Copyright Elsevier Ltd.]
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 179-181
ISSN: 1537-5927
In: Special Issue: The Legacy of Stuart Scheingold; Studies in Law, Politics and Society, S. 199-231
In: Politix: revue des sciences sociales du politique, Band 16, Heft 62, S. 31-38
ISSN: 0295-2319
In: Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era, S. 3-32
In: Canadian public policy: Analyse de politiques, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 128
ISSN: 1911-9917
In: The Western political quarterly, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 360-362
ISSN: 1938-274X
In: Studies in law, politics, and society 59
In: Perspectives on political science, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 122
ISSN: 1045-7097