Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global EraAustin Sarat, Stuart Scheingold 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. |
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New OpportunitiesNew Challenges | 33 |
Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation between Cause Lawyers and the State | 141 |
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Page 5 - intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa (Giddens, 1990:64).
Page 9 - class structure, strengthening the working and middle classes and weakening the landed upper class. It was not the capitalist market nor capitalists as the new dominant force, but rather the contradictions of capitalism that advanced the cause of democracy. (Rueschemeyer et al., 1992:
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Lawyers in Society: Comparative Theories Richard L. Abel,Philip Simon Coleman Lewis Limited preview - 1989 |