Lawyers and Movements: Legal Mobilization in Transformative Times

Author: Scott L. Cummings
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197556603

Published In: May 2027
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.S. ? Disclaimer:
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Hardback Edition ISBN: Hardback edition not yet published, ISBN13 9780197556597

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An innovative approach for understanding how law matters in contemporary social movements that rise to meet the twin challenges of American democracy: promoting liberal values of equality and inclusion, while fortifying the rule of law itself.

Fifty years after the Civil Rights Movement, America confronts a new democratic reckoning. What role do-and should-lawyers play in strengthening collective action at this pivotal moment? In Lawyers and Movements, Scott Cummings offers an innovative answer to this age-old question, breaking from the legacy of legal liberalism to reveal the essential, yet underappreciated, work of lawyers in social struggle-redefining legal mobilization in transformative times. Building from a sweeping analysis of progressive legal theory and practice, Cummings challenges foundational critiques of lawyers as inaccurate and ill-suited to the current context. In response, he advances a new theory of legal mobilization in which control over law is at the heart of movements rising to meet the twin challenges of contemporary liberalism: promoting inclusion, while fortifying the rule of law. A call to radically rethink how lawyers contribute to progressive change, Lawyers and Movements asserts a timely challenge to democracy in crisis.

Preface

Part One. Introduction

ONE: Lawyers and Social Movements Now: Critical Traditions and New Directions

Part Two. Integrated Advocacy: Movements in Progressive Legal Practice

TWO: A History of Lawyers in Social Movements

THREE: Movement Lawyering in the New Millennium

Part Three. Divided Theory: Movements in Progressive Legal Thought

FOUR: The Law-Politics Problem

FIVE: Legal Liberalism and Its Discontents

SIX: The Empirical Path of Law and Social Movements

SEVEN: The Promise and Problems of Movement Liberalism

Part Four. An Integrated Theory of Lawyers and Social Movements