1. State transformation, globalization, and the possibilities of cause lawyering : an introduction / Austin Sarat & Stuart A. Scheingold -- pt. I. Global developments/Local contests : New opportunities/New challenges -- 2. Two worlds of Ghanaian cause lawyers / Lucie White -- 3. From the fight for legal rights to the promotion of human rights : Israeli and Palestinian cause lawyers in the trenches of globalization / Lisa Hajjar -- 4. Taking on Goliath : Why personal injury litigation may represent the future of transnational cause lawyering / Anne Bloom -- 5. Cause lawyering in the shadow of the state : a U.S. immigration example / susan Bibler Coutin -- pt. II. Globalization and state transformation : patterns of conflict and cooperation between cause lawyers and the state -- 6. Cause lawyers in a cold climate : the impact(s) of globalization on the United Kingdom / Andrew Boon -- 7. State transformation and the struggle for symbolic capital : cause lawyers, the organized bar, and capital punishment in the United States / Austin Sarat -- 8. Cause lawyers, clients, and the state : Congress as a forum for cause lawyering during the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act / Neta Ziv -- 9. The global language of human rights : patterns of cooperation between state and civil rights lawyers in Israel / Yoav Dotan -- 10. Legal advocacy, global engagement : the impact of land claims advocacy on the recognition of property rights in the South African constitution / Heinz Klug -- 11. State-oriented and community-oriented lawyering for a cause : a tale of two strategies / Ronen Shamir & Neta Ziv -- pt. III. The globalization of cause lawyering -- 12. Latin American cause-lawyering networks / Stephen Meili -- 13. The politics of imported rights : transplantation and transformation in an Israeli environmental cause-lawyering organization / Noga Morag-Levine -- 14. Constructing law out of power : investing in human rights as an alternative political strategy / Yves Dezalay & Bryant G. Garth -- 15. Cause lawyering and democracy in transnational perspective : a postscript / Stuart A Scheingold.
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This volume brings together contextually sensitive, cross-cultural, and comparative research that analyzes the ways in which cause lawyering is influencing, and being influenced by, the disaggregation of state power associated with democratization and globalization.