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Lawyers, Networks and Progressive Social Change: Lawyers Changing Lives

Lawyers, Networks and Progressive Social Change: Lawyers Changing Lives

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  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional (formerly Tottel Publishing)
  • ISBN: 9781509938094
  • Published In: August 2021
  • Format: Hardback , 224 pages
  • Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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    Written by a lawyer who works at the intersection between legal education and practice in access to justice and human rights, this book locates, describes and defines a collective identity for social justice lawyering in the UK.

    Underpinned by theories of cause lawyering and legal mobilisation, the book argues that it is vital to understand the positions that progressive lawyers collectively take in order to frame the connections they make between their personal and professional lives, the tools they use to achieve social change, as well as ethical tensions presented by their work.

    The book takes a reflexive ethnographic approach to capture the stories of 35 lawyers working to positively transform law and policy in the UK over the last 50 years. It also draws on a wealth of primary sources including case reports, historic campaign materials and media analysis alongside wider ethnographic interviews with academics, students and lawyers and participant observation at social justice conferences, workshops and events.

    The book explains the way in which lawyers' networks facilitate their collective positioning and influence their strategic decision making, which in turn shapes their interactions with social activists, with other lawyers and with the state itself.

  • 1. Introduction

    2. The Context and Controversies of Progressive Lawyering
    The Context of Progressive Lawyering
    Cause Lawyering and Legal Mobilisation
    The Controversies of Progressive Lawyering
    Conclusions

    3. Identifying Progressive Lawyers
    Narrative Methodology
    Reflexivity and Elite Interviewing
    Identifying Areas of Practice
    Ethnography
    Fieldwork Interviews: Research Participant Selection
    Other Data Sources and Data Analysis
    Contested Labelling of Progressive Legal Identity
    Conclusions

    4. Pathways to Law
    The Legal Profession and Social Class
    Shared Beginnings
    Shared Left Values
    Shared Turning Points
    Collective Identity: Conclusions

    5. Tools for Change
    Legal Advice and Representation
    Strategic Litigation
    Policy Work and Campaigning
    Conclusions
    6. Educating Progressive Lawyers
    An Autoethnographic Perspective on Legal Education
    Social Alienation at Law School
    Bringing US Experience Home
    A Formative UK Experience
    Conclusions

    7. Professional Legal Ethics and the Progressive Social Self
    Resolute Positions
    Constrained Positions
    Conflict and Contestation
    Conclusions

    8. Sustaining Progressive Lawyering
    Funding and Burnout
    Passion and Persistence
    Knowledge and Experience
    Barristers and Excellence
    Social Mobility and Access
    Conclusions

    9. Lawyers, Networks and the Future of Progressive Lawyering: 'This Work Needs to be Done'
    Conceptualising a Progressive Lawyering Movement
    A Progressive Lawyering Future
    Appendix One: Table of Narrative Interviews
    Appendix Two: Narrative Interview Question Guide

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