Something to Believe in: Politics, Professionalism and Cause Lawyering

by Austin Sarat (Author), Austin Sarat (Author), Stuart A. Scheingold (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2004

  $31.06

  Lawyers in the US are frequently described as hired guns, willing to fight for any client or advance any interest. But there are others, those the authors call cause lawyers, who refuse to put aside their own convictions while they do their legal work. This book explores their work and the role of moral and political commitment in their practice