And, how do movements shape the lawyers who serve them and how do lawyers shape the movements? This work examines the unique position of lawyers committed both to profession and to cause.
In White Lawyer, Black Power, Jelinek recounts the battles he fought in defense of militant civil rights activists and rural African Americans, risking his career and his life to further the struggle for racial equality as an organizer for ...
Rankin had been solicitor general , and we had crossed swords in arguments before the Supreme Court . At one point , Rankin asked Arnold Johnson to appear before the Warren Commission and I accompanied him .
Telling the stories of people who loved and cared for one another, in sickness and in health, cut through the antigay noise and moved people—not without backlash and not overnight, but faster than most activists and observers had ever ...
The Rights Revolution is the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the growth of civil rights, examining the high courts of the United States, Britain, Canada, and India within their specific constitutional and cultural contexts.
In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of The Activist's Handbook, Randy Shaw’s hard-hitting guide to winning social change, the author brings the strategic and tactical guidance of the prior edition into the age of Obama.
Attorneys As Activists: Evaluating the American Bar Association's BASICS Program
This book is a compilation of the Public Interest litigations (PILs) filed in The High Court of Chandigarh by the author Advocate Navkiran Singh written with the hope of inspiring young Lawyers, Social activists and Human Rights enthusiasts ...
Jim Crow and Me is more than just a memoir of one man’s battle against injustice—it is an accessible testament to the precarious battle against civil injustice that continues even today.
At the time, visible on posters throughout the City, pasted to billboards and subway walls, was the sample case– weighed down, hunched-over, dark shape of Lee J. Cobb playing Willy Loman in the first Broadway production of Arthur ...