The Cultural Lives of Cause Lawyers

Acknowledgments ix Contributors xi Bringing Cultural Analysis to the Study of Cause Lawyers: An Introduction 1 Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold PART I THE CULTURAL WORK OF CAUSE LAWYERS 1 "No sacrifice is too great for the Cause!": Cause(less) Lawyering and the Legal Trials and Tribulations of Gone With the Wind 27 William P. MacNeil 2 Purpose-Driven Lawyers: Evangelical Cause Lawyering and the Culture War 56 Kevin R. den Dulk 3 Cause Lawyers and Cracker Culture at the Constructive Edge: A "Band of Brothers" Defeats Big Tobacco 79 Tim Howard PART II THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF LAWYERS AND THEIR CAUSES 4 "They all have different policies, so of course they have to give different news': Images of Human Rights Lawyers in the British Press 141 Richard J. Maiman 5 Ed Fagan and the Ethics of Causes: Who Stole Identity Politics? 172 Valerie Karno 6 Of Windmills and Wetlands: The Press and the Romance of Property Rights 188 Laura J. Hatcher 7 "The Kids are Alright": Cause Lawyering on Television in 1960's America 203 Thomas M. Hilbink 8 Nothing to Believe In Lawyers in Contemporary Films About Public Interest Litigation 230 Michael McCann and William Haltom 9 "Of course he just stood there; he's the law": Two Depictions of Cause Lawyers in Post-Authoritarian Chile 253 Stephen Meili 10 Paulina Escobar as Cause Lawyer: "Litigating" Human Rights in the Shadows of Death and the Maiden 278 Ben Fleury-Steiner and Aaron Fichtelberg PART III THE CULTURAL RECEPTION OF LAWYERS AND THEIR CAUSES 11 Cause Lawyering "English Style": Reading Rumpole of the Bailey 297 Leslie J. Moran 12 Now You See It, Now You Don't: Cause Lawyering, Popular Culture, and A Civil Action 331 Stuart A. Scheingold 13 Not What They Expected: Legal Services Lawyers in the Eyes of Legal Services Clients 359 Corey S. Shdaimah Index 389