Cause Lawyer Information
Cause Lawyer (also known as Social Lawyer or Public Interest Lawyer), is a lawyer dedicated to the usage of law for the promotion of social change.
Cause lawyering is commonly described as a practice of "lawyering for the good" or using law to empower members of the weaker layers of society.
It is usually performed Pro bono and frequently done by individual lawyers or lawyers employed by associations which aim to supply a public service as a complementary to the State provided Legal aid.
See Also
- human rights
- International human rights instruments
- List of human rights organisations
- Public interest
References
- The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make: Structure and Agency in Legal Practice ( Editors: Austin Sarat, Stuart Scheingold; Stanford Law and Politics; 2005)
- Gerald N. Rosenberg, The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Second Edition (American Politics and Political Economy Series (University Of Chicago Press, 2008)
- Margareth Etienne, The Ethics of Cause Lawyering: An Empirical Examination of Criminal Defense Lawyers as Cause Lawyers, Vol. 95, The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973), pp. 1195–1260
External links
- Steve Berenson, Government Lawyer as Cause Lawyer: A Study of Three High Profile Government Lawsuits
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