Law And Social Movements

Author : Michael McCann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351560735
Total Pages : 1001 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Social Movements written by Michael McCann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of both socio-legal scholars and specialists working in social movements research continues to contribute to our understanding of how law relates to and informs the politics of social movements. In the 1990s, an important line of new research, most of it initiated by those working in the law and society tradition, began to bridge the gaps between these two areas of scholarship. This work includes new approaches to group ?legal mobilization? politics; analysis of the judicial impact on social reform struggles; studies of individual legal mobilization in civil disputing and an almost entirely new area of research in ?cause lawyering?. It brings together the best of this research introduced by a detailed essay by the editor.

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804753616
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cause Lawyers and Social Movements written by Austin Sarat and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cause Lawyers and Social Movements seeks to reorient scholarship on cause lawyers, inviting scholars to think about cause lawyering from the perspective of those political activists with whom cause lawyers work and whom they seek to serve. It demonstrates that while all cause lawyering cuts against the grain of conventional understandings of legal practice and professionalism, social movement lawyering poses distinctively thorny problems. The editors and authors of this volume explore the following questions: What do cause lawyers do for, and to, social movements? How, when, and why do social movements turn to and use lawyers and legal strategies? Does their use of lawyers and legal strategies advance or constrain the achievement of their goals? And, how do movements shape the lawyers who serve them and how do lawyers shape the movements?

Author : Joel F. Handler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Movements and the Legal System written by Joel F. Handler and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Scott L. Cummings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780197556627
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lawyers and Social Movements written by Scott L. Cummings and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores the role of lawyers in social movements at a moment in which that role has taken center stage in American legal theory and practice. It is a comprehensive analysis of how lawyers mobilize law to advance movement goals and what impact they have within liberal democracy. The book's central contribution is to provide a new way of understanding and evaluating how lawyers support social movements in order to chart a different direction in research and reclaim a more positive professional role for lawyers in practice. It focuses on the tradition of law and social movements research and practice in the United States, but has implications for movement lawyering in the global arena. Ultimately, the book aims to decisively push away from foundational critiques of lawyers in social movements, developed a generation ago in dramatically different political conditions, which continue to powerfully shape academic debate and progressive legal practice. In their place, it offers a positive account, in which lawyers act as allies-and sometimes leaders-in struggles for transformative and enduring democratic change"--

Author : Whitney K. Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009493264
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law, Mobilization, and Social Movements written by Whitney K. Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal and social movement scholars have long puzzled over the role of movements in moving, being moved by, and changing the meanings of the law. But for decades, these two strands of scholarship only dovetailed at their edges, in the work of a few far-seeing scholars. The fields began to more productively merge before and after the turn of the century. In this Element, the authors take an interactive approach to this problem and sketch four mechanisms that seem promising in effecting a true fusion: legal mobilization, legal-political opportunity structure, social construction, and movement-countermovement interaction. The Element also illustrates the workings and interactions of these four mechanisms from two examples of the authors' work: the campaign for same-sex marriage in the United States and social constitutionalism in South Africa.

Author : Kathryn A. Stout
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461642426
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Problems, Law, and Society written by Kathryn A. Stout and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2004-07-14 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles presents a critical, issue-oriented approach to law and society, emphasizing its important relationship to contemporary social problems. By exploring the interstitial area between the sociology of law, social problems and social movements, the initial chapters trace out a theoretical trajectory which points to the need to move beyond traditional and social constructionist approaches. A variety of empirical studies together explore the contradictory dynamics of class as they relate to race and gender in both a national and global context, illustrating the dialectical interplay between the state and social movements. Employing a wide range of perspectives so as to convey the great diversity found in the contemporary sociology of law and justice studies, these authors collectively share a broad consensus concerning the need to explore how social movements and the larger political economy play a pivotal role in shaping state reactions to the challenges presented by contemporary social problems. With its integrated presentation of theoretical perspectives and empirical studies, this unique anthology will be useful in a variety of sociology, criminology, and justice studies course offerings such Law and Society, Social Problems, Crime and Social Justice, Social Movements, Law and Social Control, Social Change, Law and Public Policy, Introduction to Legal Studies, and others. Undergraduate and graduate students alike will appreciate that these articles, selected for their academic rigor, are highly readable and strongly oriented towards high profile social issues, including those of class, race, and gender inequalities as well as social movement and legal struggles in community, national and global settings.

Author : George Meszaros
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135908729
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Movements, Law and the Politics of Land Reform written by George Meszaros and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Movements, Law and the Politics of Land Reform investigates how rural social movements are struggling for land reform against the background of ambitious but unfulfilled constitutional promises evident in much of the developing world. Taking Brazil as an example, it unpicks the complex reasons behind the remarkably consistent failures of its constitution and law enforcement mechanisms to deliver social justice. Using detailed empirical evidence and focusing upon the relationship between rural social struggles and the state, the book develops a threefold argument: first, the inescapable presence of power relations in all aspects of the production and reproduction of law; secondly their dominant impact on socio-legal outcomes; and finally the essential and positive role played by social movements in redressing those power imbalances and realising law’s progressive potentialities.

Author : Steven A. Boutcher
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781789907667
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change written by Steven A. Boutcher and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of law and social movements provides an ideal lens for rethinking fundamental questions about the relationship between law and power. This Research Handbook takes up that challenge, framing a more global, dynamic, reflexive, and contextualised phase of social movement studies. Featuring international and interdisciplinary contributions, chapters focus on democratic and authoritarian rule, social movement strategies, identities, social positions, and the relationship between narratives and power. This Research Handbook not only asks why movements succeed or fail, but more broadly how law and movements become conduits for entrenching or resisting power. Calling for novel approaches to law and social movements scholarship, it provides an expansive range of case studies on the topic, and grapples with questions of governmental regimes, power, and social change. This interdisciplinary Research Handbook will be of great value to sociologists, political scientists, and other sociolegal scholars with an interest in global perspectives on social movements, democracy, and authoritarianism. It will also be a relevant read for policymakers, activists, and legal professionals.

Author : Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139438239
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Law from Below written by Balakrishnan Rajagopal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-06 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of transnational social movements as major actors in international politics - as witnessed in Seattle in 1999 and elsewhere - has sent shockwaves through the international system. Many questions have arisen about the legitimacy, coherence and efficiency of the international order in the light of the challenges posed by social movements. This book offers a fundamental critique of twentieth-century international law from the perspective of Third World social movements. It examines in detail the growth of two key components of modern international law - international institutions and human rights - in the context of changing historical patterns of Third World resistance. Using a historical and interdisciplinary approach, Rajagopal presents compelling evidence challenging debates on the evolution of norms and institutions, the meaning and nature of the Third World as well as the political economy of its involvement in the international system.

Author : Radha D'Souza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783717279
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What's Wrong with Rights? written by Radha D'Souza and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rights occupy a strange position in global politics. On the one hand, they're used by business and governments as a justification for globalization--if the spread of corporate capitalism also helps lead to improvements in human rights, then globalization must be good, right? At the same time, though, even those on the left who are skeptical of that discourse tend to hew to a belief in rights themselves, like the right to food, medicine, housing, free speech, assembly, and religion. How can these conflicting attitudes towards rights be reconciled? Radha D'Souza lays out the problem and the solution in this book, applying legal thought to human rights to bridge the gap between rights in the abstract and their institutional context. Through close looks at real struggles, D'Souza shows how the left around the world can develop new strategies and tactics to achieve the goals embodied by rights discourse without giving cover to globalization.