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Accounts of law problems and the way they were handled, written by the responsible lawyers
Influential articles on the evolution of clinical legal education over the past three decades, by members of the founding generation of clinical law professors.
pp. 105-16; Australian Legal Aid Office.
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Susan D. Carle centers this collection of texts on the premise that legal ethics should be far more than a set of rules on professional responsibility.
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For the Poor and Disenfranchised is an historical and institutional analysis of the public interest bar in the United States. It traces how the legal profession delivered on the legal system’s promise of equal justice for all by making the legal system available to all and a vehicle for substantive justice, exploring political mobilization, entrepreneurial lawyering, and pro bono publico representation. “In this dramatic and detailed account, Robert Sauté documents the establishment and evolution of the public interest bar, particularly its struggles to provide zealous advocacy for its clients. Through meticulous historical research in case studies of the New York Legal Aid Society, NAA...
Why do some lawyers devote themsevles to a specific social movement or political cause? What can we learn from such lawyers about the relationship between law and politics. CAUSE LAWYERING offers an insightful portrait of lawyers who sacrifice financial advantage in the name of a more just society. These telling essays show how cause lawyering is indispensable to the legitimization of professional authority.
FOOTNOTES TO HISTORY presents a riveting account of Feldman’s life in LAW and DIPLOMACY ranging from the Vietnam War to the Iran Hostage Crisis and the Two Iraq Wars. His oral history is a lively read inside the room with Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Henry Kissinger along with Feldman’s personal take on U.S. foreign policy, candid reflections on his relations with senior officials, as well as his (very different) encounters with Klaus Barbie at Lima, Tippi Hedrin at Rome and Prince Bandar in Virginia.