After 9/11: Guantánamo and the Mobilization of Lawyers

Women Lawyers and the Struggle for Change in Conflict and Transition

“…22 Such lawyers may engage in both pro bono and paid work, strategic litigation, develop networks and relationships, or indeed become part of broader social or political movements and view their responsibilities as going well beyond the court room or lawyers office to argue and mobilise publicly for the 'cause.' 23 Cause lawyers are essentially much more comfortable than conventional lawyers with the view that the law and lawyering is quintessentially political.…”

Strange Bedfellows: How an Anticipatory Countermovement Brought Same‐Sex Marriage into the Public Arena

“…Legal scholars have long appreciated that social movements drive much legal change (Scheingold 1974; McCann 1994, 2006; Eskridge 2001; Siegel 2008; Balkin 2011). At the same time, social movement scholars are increasingly aware of the law as part of the “opportunity structure” of movement activists (Hilson 2002; Boutcher 2010, 2013; Hajjar 2010; Prabhat 2011; de Fazio 2012; Vanhala 2012; Boutcher and Stobaugh 2013). Our work brings together social movement and legal scholarship to trace the dynamic relationship between an anticipatory countermobilization, a movement response, and the role of grassroots activists in triggering this response.…”

“…For an analysis of the static and dynamic specifications of this concept, see Gamson and Meyer (1996) and Tarrow (2011). The specifically legal forms of opportunity structure have been analyzed by Andersen (2005), Boutcher (2013), de Fazio (2012), Hilson (2002), McCann (1994), Prabhat (2011), and Vanhala (2012).…”