Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
Contents
Contributors
What Cause Lawyers Do For, and To, Social Movements: An Introduction
Section I. The Life Cycle of Movements and Movement Lawyering
Retrenchment ... and Resurgence? Mapping the Changing Context of Movement Lawyering in the United States
The Profession, the Grassroots and the Elite: Cause Lawyering for Civil Rights and Freedom in the Direct Action Era
Cause Lawyers in the First Wave of Same Sex Marriage Litigation
Cause Lawyering and Political Advocacy: Moving Law on Behalf of Central American Refugees
Consumer Cause Lawyers in the United States: Lawyers for the Movement or a Movement unto Themselves?
Section II. Lawyers and Activists/Lawyers as Activists: Professional Identities and Movement Politics
To Lead with Law: Reassessing the Influence of Legal Advocacy Organizations in Social Movements
Social Movement Strategies and the Participatory Potential of Litigation
The Haves Come Out Ahead: How Cause Lawyers Frame the Legal System for Movements
In Legal Culture, but Not of It: The Role of Cause Lawyers in Evangelical Legal Mobilization
Intersecting Identities: Cause Lawyers as Legal Professionals and Social Movement Actors
Section III. Beyond Litigation: Other Roles, Other Styles for Cause Lawyers in Social Movements
The Movement Takes the Lead: The Role of Lawyers in the Struggle for a Living Wage in Santa Monica, California
A Movement in the Wake of a New Law: The United Farm Workers and the California Agricultural Lab or Relations Act
Mobilization Lawyering: Community Economic Development in the Figueroa Corridor
Index