Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521711357
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (113 download)
Book Synopsis The Cultural Lives of Cause Lawyers by : Austin Sarat
Download or read book The Cultural Lives of Cause Lawyers written by Austin Sarat and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to illuminate what we call the cultural lives of cause lawyers by examining their representation in various popular media (including film, fiction, mass-marketed non-fiction, television, and journalism), the work they do as creators of cultural products, and the way those representations and products are received and consumed by various audiences. By attending to media representations and the culture work done by cause lawyers, we can see what material is available for citizens and others to use in fashioning understandings of those lawyers. This book also provides a vehicle for determining whether, how, and to what extent cause lawyering is embedded in the discourses and symbolic practice around which ordinary citizens organize their understanding of social, political, and legal life. This book brings together research on the legal profession with work that takes up the analysis of popular culture. Contributors to this work include scholars of popular culture who turn their attention to cause lawyers and experts on cause lawyering who in turn focus their attention on popular culture. This is a joining of perspectives that is both long overdue and fruitful for both kinds of scholarship.